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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Gannis, Carla

Titel

Art, Life, and Technology, Through Time and Space

Ist Teil von

• Museums and Digital Culture, 2019, p.381-397

Ort / Verlag

Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG

Erscheinungsjahr

2019

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Gannis, Carla chapter focuses on the work and life of Digital artistGannis, Carla. Originally from North Carolina, Gannis BFABachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from UNC Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in painting from Boston University. In 2005 she was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Grant in Computer art, and since then, she lives and works in Brooklyn, where she is a professor and assistant chairperson of The Department of Digital Arts at Pratt Institute. Conveying her journey from painter to digital artist and storyteller, we explore the evolution of her artistic expression from painting to Digital art, a story that ties broadly to the development of the digital arts field from the 1990s to present. Presented both through images of her work, and by way of a face to face unrehearsed Interview, this chapter touches upon many of the highly pertinent topics impacting artists and museums in the 21st-century digital age. Among these, of special interest to museums are her observations on audiences, and how working in Digital media affords new opportunities and multiple ways of connecting to the viewer, and reaching vast numbers of people across the globe, traveling from the gallery to the Public square, in particular, Times square and the Internet, showing that the life of a digital work can have multiple states of being. Gannis emphasizes the cultural positioning of Digital spaces in physical places where diverse large public audiences can experience the work and where the artist can feel the pulse of public reaction and interaction. A feature of her work is her expression of self and gender through digital manifestations of persona, being and social consciousness, that take very original shapes and forms, images, colors and animations that merge into digital interpretations of self and the surrounding world revealing her creative imagination and sense of poetry used to convey new narratives embedded in her work and life (Fig. 19.1).Fig. 19.1Until the End of the World by Gannis, Carla, her solo exhibition at the DAM gallery, Berlin, Germany, November 2017, installation view. (Photograph by Carla Gannis, http://carlagannis.com/blog/prints/until-the-end-of-the-world/)