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Next Event
THURSDAY 15th OCTOBER
BP seminar rooms
6-8pm
James Faure Walker
drawing lessons for ants
James Faure Walker (St Martins, RCA) has been incorporating computer
graphics in his painting since 1988. He exhibits with the DAM Gallery,
Berlin, and has shown eight times at SIGGRAPH. He won the ‘Golden
Plotter’ at Computerkunst, Gladbeck, Germany in 1998. Group shows
include: Block Museum, Illinois (2008); Bloomberg Space (2005); John
Moores (1982, 2002); Digital Salon, New York (2001); Serpentine
(1982); Hayward Annual (1979). Solo shows include Galerie Wolf Lieser,
Berlin (2003); Galerie der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden (2000, 2001); Colville
Place Gallery (1998, 2000) the Whitworth, Manchester (1985). He co-
founded Artscribe magazine in 1976, and edited it for eight years. He
has also written for Studio International, Modern Painters, Mute,
Computer Generated Imaging, Wired, and Garageland. His book, ‘Painting
the Digital River: How an Artist Learned to Love the Computer’,
(Prentice Hall, USA, 2006) received a New England Book Show Award. In
2002 he was an AHRC Senior Research Fellow. He is Reader in Painting
and the Computer at Camberwell, University of the Arts. He is showing
in ‘Digital Pioneers at the V and A in December, and has eleven works
in their collection. He is one of five English artists commissioned by
FIFA’s Fine Art 2010 for the South African World Cup.
Abstract
I called a recent talk ‘drawing lessons for ants’. That could be a
book title, but it was also a thought experiment, a different take on
digital drawing. I was wondering about a non-human point of view, of
how the expanse of outer space could be felt in abstract painting.
Having written a book on painting with the computer, a book drawn from
first hand experience, I wanted to tackle some questions about
drawing. If line and tone derive from the pencil, what can digital
drawing be? The distinction between drawing and painting no longer
makes much sense. In my own case I ‘draw’ with complex pattern
brushes. When you integrate ‘software thinking’, you manipulate a
different scale of complexity.
info for jpeg as attached:
title: Villa Dora 2008 archival epson print 104 cms x 86 cms
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