{"id":873,"date":"2011-10-19T19:30:51","date_gmt":"2011-10-19T19:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glancesideways.com\/?p=96"},"modified":"2026-03-13T05:22:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T05:22:30","slug":"technological","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/19\/technological\/","title":{"rendered":"Technologic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns gs-Art-Full is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/glancesideways.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/unto-703x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns gs-Story-Text is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>As a 16 year old art student focused on painting, there was a lot of conceptual anxiety to process as a as my mind came to grips with the notion of computer art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Art made by a machine vrs the hand of the Artist. It was a big debate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Life before the web.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nowadays the issue is not a big deal, but then in 1994 computer image making was the last challenge to the classical shrine of Fine Art. I was lucky to meet a good mentor and master printmaker Jim Brodie whom I am ever thankful to for breaking the mold of my mind by flashing wired magazine at computer class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This was my first ever computer graphics created with photoshop 5.0 using my paintings and reworking them digitally. I crashed the network once or twice making these images and after lots of system freezes and reboots result developed. A year later when I went to uni as a first year after developing a proficient foothold with digital art, I was told &#8220;experimental&#8221; computer art was only for third year students and put through foundation studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Postmodernity in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lismore,_New_South_Wales\">LizardLand<\/a> was theoretical idea not a practice and I dropped out after the first year and joined the S\u0101raswat Gau\u1e0d\u012bya Vai\u1e63\u1e47avism to become a monastic and never turned back.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a 16 year old art student focused on painting, there was a lot of conceptual anxiety to process as a as my mind came to grips with the notion of computer art. Art made by a machine vrs the hand of the Artist. It was a big debate. Life before the web. Nowadays the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3073,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions\/3073"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glancesideways.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}