Journal Entry 4: Five Digital Media Artists

 The five artists I have chosen to compare for this journal entry are as follows:


Stepan Ryabchenko

"tranquil"


Miguel Chevalier


"dear world... Yours, Cambridge" 2015

Tishan Hsu

Guweiz

untitled

WLOP
"Cage"

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For this assignment, I wanted to take a look at how different artists use digital tools to create artwork and how their processes are different from each other.

For Stepan Ryabchenko, he creates conceptual architecture and worlds. Miguel Chevalier uses projections and virtual reality and screen displays to take over spaces. Tishan Hsu creates masses of flesh air  brushed together using digital tools, then prints them out large scale or even turns them into sculptures. Guweiz and WLOP are two giants in the digital art sphere when it comes to more commercial and more graphic-novel esque work rather than gallery work. Both use Photoshop as a drawing software to create characters in diverse and fantastical settings.

As a traditional painter, I am more attracted to Guweiz's and WLOP's work as they use digital tools to essentially mimic traditional painting -- it is within my comfort zone. I was also surprised by Hsu's work as his creative use of photo editing and print usage was both disturbing and enthralling. I particularly like that Hsu seems to bridge the gap between the digital and the traditional by not relying solely on one or the other to make his work. Rather, he utilizes the best parts of both to create amazing works of art.


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