We had our ordinary chat as a group again after the Easter break. The final assessment issues and the written essay that we have to submit were the most important matters of the dialogue.
I submitted also a short artist statement that we were asked to submit for the university catalogue and also a catalogue image representing our work.
The artist statement is the following:
Byzantine art is both glorious and humble and Digital Art is glorious and spectacular. My research focuses on these alienated forms of art with renowned representatives such as Photios Kontoglou and Bill Viola, looking for bonds. Concentrating on the liturgical and preaching aspects of Byzantine Art, I can visualize Byzantine Art through a digital prism.
My catalogue image is the one below
The image was altered using photoshop, acheiving this old look sepia tone effect. I decided to use a panorama photo and create a cross photo coming out of a black backround. The same catalogue image will be a poster that i will exhibit at the final show. This digital piece can be the ’spectacular” point of attraction for my work, showing the core element of my research which was the creation of a proskinitari. The poster will be a “marketing” tool since i don’t consider my work spectacular, but rather a humble and a honest attempt to find bonds between Byzantine and digital art.
June 23, 2008 at 10:45 pm
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