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by Shekhar Chandran (cntd.)
Navjot Altaf's creations too are versatile. His Interactive Art, combines audios and videos along with music and books. She recently exhibited at the Tate Modern in London and at Kunstforum in Dusseldorf, Germany. " I don’t think any other painting or run of the mill artwork could have taken me to the places I have been to," confesses this Mumbai based artist. But, says Sophie Gaur an emerging digital artist, " Most digital work that passes for art is not art." She believes that like the creator of art on canvas, the computer or video or installation artist must have "aesthetic attributes and he or she must be sensitive to form, space and colour apart from being fully conversant with technique. Though computer and video may only be tools that aid creative thinking but they have to be mastered." Once that is done then modern art becomes as rich as conventional art. " Like the images done on the canvas, digital images also have a depth and a lyrical composition of their own," says Sophie whose works were exhibited at the Hewlett Packard Digital Art Show. Like Sophie, most innovative artists feel that digital art offers enormous possibilities. There is unconstrained manoeuvrability and merging of images. " Depending upon a person's artistic ability, the computer can be as handy as a paintbrush." Yes, money does matter. Most new-age artists will agree their work does not sell too well except for a rare art lover who is ready to shell out the moolah. However, most of them will also say that they do not create `masterpieces’ to just sell them away. Is it because there are no buyers or that their pieces don't sell? " I agree that these kind of work don’t make money for you," admits well known artist Subrata Kundu who too specializes in installation art. " But then, if we make everything for sale we don’t deserve to be called artists. All that an artist wants is expression and appreciation. Why can’t artists just value the work and not bother about where my next meal is going to come from?" he wonders.
In other words, a new age artist has to have other sources of income to finance the passionate interludes. Kundu is painter and a muralist and completes at least one mural every year. Arunkumar works as a designer with a leading toy manufacturer and Kamath is a graphic designer in an ad agency. Most artists agree that technology-based art of the future will function in a constantly changing virtual landscape that is trans-time and trans-space. Rapid advances in the field of telematics (especially the increasing use of computer systems and other electronic mediums) will ensure the sustenance of such art and also facilitate the entry of impulses and materials that were not formerly regarded as 'art-worthy'. "Newer technology-backed art will find its artists and audiences not among the traditional academy-trained fine artists and art-gallery viewers, but among computer geeks, animators, architects, designers, cultural theorists and political activists". Even as art becomes unconventional, it may run the risk of becoming indistinguishable from entertainment; it will share a hyphenated relationship with fashion and commerce, it will be topical and always of the moment. But the advantage is that unlike a conventional artist who has to work with a limited set of colours, these new-age artists can choose from millions of shades and hues generated electronically. The type of surfaces available are also myriad.
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