PIXELISM
An exhibition of digital imaging
Kane Cunningham
An exhibition from March 11th to April 26th 2003
Tuesday to Saturday 10 - 1pm & 2 - 5pm
Free Admission
The artists showing work are:
- Kane Cunningham
- Michael Ambler
- Julia Gatie
Pixelism.org are a digital arts group, based in Scarborough, currently going from strength to strength. In late 2000 the Awards for All Committee (Lottery Commission) in collaboration with the Arts Council of England awarded the group a substantial grant. This led to the launch of a website (www.pixelism.org) and an exhibition at the Leeds Arts Arena in 2001.
Michael Ambler
Pixelism is as yet an unpublished word set to describe a process and a synthesis of ideas, borne out of traditional art practice. The common denominator is the computer and in this sense it pulls together a variety of media onto the screen. So, drawing, photography, painting and collage, can, using computer technology be placed on the virtual substrate and further manipulated to the satisfaction of the Artist. Pixelism has emerged as a hybrid art form in which artists (or more correctly pixelists) are pioneering new methods and theory in the creation of art in the ever-developing technology of digital imaging. Blurring the definitions of traditional practice the words obvious meaning is digital arts in one form or another.
Julia Gatie
The word may soon be accepted by the Oxford English Dictionary and placed squarely in the English language. Is pixelism the new 'ism' of the twenty-first century, superseding all that is postmodernism and all other 'isms' now left firmly behind in the century past?
Pixelism.org is an established group of artists and photographers. Exhibiting in March at the Crescent Arts gallery in Scarborough are Kane Cunningham, Mike Ambler and Julia Gatie (representing the group). All three are lecturers in Art and Design (Kane and Mike at Yorkshire Coast College and Julia at Scarborough Sixth Form College).
Pixelism has attracted the attention of Sir Christopher Frayling, Rector of the Royal College of Art, who is visiting Scarborough, just before the opening of the exhibition on Friday 28th February 2003, to talk to the students at Yorkshire Coast College, School of Creative Arts.
Sir Christopher once said of pixelism "Hate the title, admire the vision, support the thinking behind it". Sir Nicholas Serota of Tate Modern and Tate Britain has also acknowledged the word.
Patrick Burke
Voluntary Exhibition officer
Preview Saturday 8th March 2003, 7.30pm to 9.30pm.
For exhibition related events see the calendar
