Yes, if you have found this blog, it is indeed true: Dirk P. Norman OWNS A COMPUTER. I know this will catch me unrelenting flack in the NYC art community. I know that I have espoused the merits of the typewriter for the past 15 years and promised a return to glory of the currently outpaced format (however, don't be surprised to see Apple release a line of finely crafted analog devices...) But, as an artist, I recognize the need to find ways of reinventing myself, and in an effort to become completely transparent about my artistic practices, I have indeed deigned to buy a computer. This shift in thinking does not however portend a complete shift in artistic practices. I will still manually set my type. No amount of technology can replace the emotional connection that a tactile relationship with the letter forms can offer. I have posted in this entry the first image I have ever created on the computer. A square, featuring my name. Having answered the question 'What is art' sufficiently for myself, I found it imperative that I find a new challenge to fuel my fire. 'What is digital art?' And I mean that in the broadest of ways, not merely pertaining to art that was created with an absence of the human hand. But more holistically, how can one manipulate the technologies of the time in an artful and impactful way?
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I OWN A COMPUTER
Yes, if you have found this blog, it is indeed true: Dirk P. Norman OWNS A COMPUTER. I know this will catch me unrelenting flack in the NYC art community. I know that I have espoused the merits of the typewriter for the past 15 years and promised a return to glory of the currently outpaced format (however, don't be surprised to see Apple release a line of finely crafted analog devices...) But, as an artist, I recognize the need to find ways of reinventing myself, and in an effort to become completely transparent about my artistic practices, I have indeed deigned to buy a computer. This shift in thinking does not however portend a complete shift in artistic practices. I will still manually set my type. No amount of technology can replace the emotional connection that a tactile relationship with the letter forms can offer. I have posted in this entry the first image I have ever created on the computer. A square, featuring my name. Having answered the question 'What is art' sufficiently for myself, I found it imperative that I find a new challenge to fuel my fire. 'What is digital art?' And I mean that in the broadest of ways, not merely pertaining to art that was created with an absence of the human hand. But more holistically, how can one manipulate the technologies of the time in an artful and impactful way?
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