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Painting in a digital landscape

Staniak, Michael ( 2011)

This thesis, titled Painting in a Digital Landscape, encompasses research conducted in 2010 and 2011 in the Victorian College of the Arts Masters of Fine Arts Course. The research explores the ways in which the form, process and materials of painting have been affected by new digital media screen technology, particularly through the Internet. The studio practice is based mostly around painting that floats between abstraction and realism. There is also an element of the studio practice that is focuses on the use of digital technology and experimentation with digital print encompassing immersive installation. This serves to amalgamate the virtual experience of digital technology with the tangible experience of walking into an actual gallery space. The supporting exegesis looks at the artists, processes and concepts that influence the studio practice, and follows the history of changes in technology and consequent changes of certain periods in painting.