Art & Technology interviews
sound and visual artists
Host Daniel Durning
In this, the first of an introductory two-part special, 3D animator and Web
designer Daniel Durning talks to
artist John F. Simon, Jr. about new developments
in his computer-based paintings, recently exhibited in the Guggenheim Museum's
"Seeing Double" exhibition. Simon also gets into the subject of writing creative
computer code and the development of "Emergence" and other systems involved
in his work. He is represented by the Sandra
Gering Gallery in New York. Durning's cohost, the composer and digital
audio expert Lefferts
Brown, draws out Laurie
Spiegel, on the subject of her early experiments with electronics and
music, as well as her work with the video artist Nam Jun Paik. A pioneer in
computer-generated music, she is also the person who designed Music Mouse,
a program that allows music listeners to become music-makers with their computers
at home.