Monday, July 2, 2012

A Conversation with the Artist at the FMoPA

"We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning." ~ Jean Baudrillard, 'Simulacra and Simulations,' 1988

In 1917, under the pseudonym R. Mutt, the French artist and champion of the Dadaist movement, Marcel Duchamp, challenged and shocked the Art World with his submission of 'Fountain' to the Society of Independent Artists exhibit, forever changing the perception of Art. In the latter part of the 20th Century, the Digital Revolution, with its bits and bytes and ones and zeros, forever changed the processes and the media in which art could be created. Photography has been squarely caught in this rapidly evolving landscape of digital capture with an accelerating distancing and removal of the physical contact between the artist and his media of geometric proportions.

As part of the ongoing museum series "The Individual's Opinion - The Photographer's View" a