in the email today... >From: Julie Nelms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Digital Art is not DEAD. it's unborn. >Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2000 18:40:08 -0500 > >This is my story: maybe you agree, disagree or think my work looks better as >wallpaper on your desktop. >Yesterday I posted a digital photomontage for sale on ebay. My gig is to >sell my digital artwork in the same format from creation to completion; as a >digital file, but still as art. "Sure you can do that so long as they are >more than 72 dpi so that folks can print them out" say my pixel-pusher pals. >And so it appears there is little to no acceptance for digital art, even >amongst the digital artists themselves. It's easily digested when >functional, within the context of a web site, but set Digital art on the >level of say photography, design or collage and it's seen as useless as a >slide without a projector. I beg to differ. So goes my little experiment, >with hopes that my work will not go ignored for the wrong reasons. Whether >or not you like the work doesn't matter, its whether you accept the medium >and view technology as an instrument and as art. >As a dual concept the photomontage works are viewable on ebay in actual >size, without watermark or signage. My friends say it's crazy, that even if >someone likes the work it will be downloaded with no bids or sale/profit for >the artist. The consensus is that folks will not pay for what they can >easily steal; a theory not unfamiliar on the web. By selling my work in >this way, I want to bring awareness to intellectual property rights on the >web. >Intellectual property rights is not an issue exclusive to music. Visual >artists will be much more affected with the growing attentions to digital >work then they are at present. I deal with this as a theme in my work >within my own site. It's an issue not much debated perhaps because what we >expect to occur is what we hold to be true; no one will pay for what is >openly exposed on the www landscape, and not at a time when the rules are >just beginning to be written. That's not to say we need more policing or >restrictions; I can't possibly create the solution for this issue despite >its effects on me and my work. The freedom of the web is fantastic; the >accessibility of information is a gift and both the actual and potential for >artistic exchange is phenomenal. I've seen the benefit on sites like >halfbakery.com where ideas and exchanges are free as water. I both save and >borrow from other digital artists' work for reference and for my collage. >Maybe I'm seen as a thief as well? >I have eight days left on my auction, so let's get bidding. >http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=472629715 > >Photoshoplifters of the world unite! >Julie Nelms >www.istoleyour.com >
