“The Great Debate” article on creativity in the digital realm, AI

Like many artists, I probably started when I first picked up a pencil and began to compulsively scribble. But if we count since I graduated college, I’ve been at it a little over 20 years.

In the visual arts, I started with “traditional” illustration and collage as separate processes I regularly experimented with, although when I was a kid the closest we really got to computer art was entering lines of BASIC to make a turtle draw lines on a fuzzy CRT screen.

However, as soon as Photoshop 3.0 was released, the two processes began to gradually coalesce in a variety of ways — first compositing, then photobashing, then finally extensive digital painting using various methods of mixing, blending, and re-interpreting digital and analog sources.

WHICH IS ALL TO SAY THAT I’VE ALWAYS EMBRACED USING TECHNOLOGY IN WHATEVER WAYS THAT I CAN IN MY ART.

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