The Computer in the Studio
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Lincoln, MA
September 24 to November 27, 1994
This collaboration between the DeCordova Museum and The Computer Museum in Boston examined the growing use of computers by regional artists.
The Computer in the Studio was organized by DeCordova Associate Curator Nick Capasso and Computer Museum Media Arts Exhibit Developer Brian Wallace. George Fifield, curator of VideoSpace at DeCordova, participated in the selection of computer- assisted video art.
Works shown
“Computer animation and an electronic soundtrack composed by the artist are the basic technical elements of Greg A. Stephens’s video Death is the Seed. Using images of demons, angels, saints, and martyrs from the history of Western art, Stephens creates shifting visual patterns. Symbols of death come alive, as it were, in a pulsating fabric of mortality. The sampled vocal line ‘When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow,’ ironic in its sinister delivery, is spoken by poet William S. Burroughs.
In Stephens’s video collaboration with Sergio F. Guerra, Fragments of a Vicarious Childhood, animations, computer-processed video footage, and Super-8 film combine in a collage of memory. Fleeting layers of dancing pictographs, landscape imagery, and nostalgia-tinged ‘home movies’ blur together in an exploration of time’s effects on remembered and imagined events.”
– Nicholas Cappaso
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