Eelco Brand, 1969, Rotterdam
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Voorheen Audiovisueel
Sandberg instituut, 1995
Nature as an Object of Mimesis
The Parrot Museum philosopher, H. van Boxtel:
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The computer - along with its programs and tools - is an additional step in the development of images. The extraordinary thing about it is that, in contrast to a brush, silver stylus or pencil, it contains an accumulative aspect. The potential of the computer and its accompanying media is being constantly developed. Existing possibilities are improved, refined and extended. A brush or a pen contains none of the potential of previous users and is, as such, 'without memory': a tabula rasa. Your own two hands have to develop everything, absolutely everything.
The computer and its applications contain a great many pre-programmed possibilities, which provide options albeit in a standardised form. Artists using computers must therefore fight for their individuality, should they attach any importance to it, so as to be able to deploy the computer's potential.
Whether it is made with a brush or with a computer, the quality of the artist's vision and knowledge will remain the image's point of departure.
The computer will continue to develop, and an increasing number of its existing products will seem primitive once new models, programs and other possibilities are introduced.
It will never be finished, this machine, this artificial memory. This perfect machine, perchance...
