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Kinne, Carol, Artist Closing Plenary:Conference Observers Speak I was trained as a painter, and 30 years later, am still a painter. Along the way, I have also worked in three dimensions (though I would never call myself a sculptor), installation, performance, video and since 1987, computer generated works. My first computer was acquired in 1981, a Sinclair with 16K memory, costing $99, a cute little machine of about 8" x 6" that had a skin instead of a keyboard. I hooked it up to my black and white TV and taught myself the fundamentals of Basic programming. With my newly acquired programming skills I made some simple, low-resolution animations. In 1987, I got my first Commodore Amiga, an ink jet printer, color monitor and a digitizer. I hooked up my video camera to the digitizer (DigiView) and captured a real time video clip as a still image. I printed a series of these in a 13-foot scroll to make my first official digital work, Leon in Spaceland. Many scrolls, serial, and large scale multi-part works followed based on scanned images. When I got my first modem and subscribed to GENIE, my relationship to the computer changed. I realized that it was not just a passive tool to make art with, but also a medium of intercourse and exchange between me and everything out there in cyberspace. It's form, subject, content all rolled into one. Presently, I am producing pieces for the Web. Small Weapons, my first, is a random site generator, using pictographic images and others gathered from public domain clip art. Random links (found by searching on the words associated with the symbols) are generated when viewers click on the different symbols. Small Dramas is a animation/sound work in progress. |