Computer Graphics & Animation

Biography

Biography: Raphael DiLuzio

Abstract

During the Renaissance, science and art were unified. Historically, a divide occurred that separated art from the technologies and innovations of science. For over five hundred years, the creative technology available to artists changed little until two historical innovations combined. Prior to the invention of film, the tools available to visual artist were limited to creating fixed images. The invention of film changed that, although the initial high cost and cumbersome nature of the medium required an army of workers and bankers to produce major works. Initially, the invention of the computer seemed to have little to do with art. Through advancements in its processing power, and the ability to work with sound and image, computers evolved to play a fundamental and influential role art in making. The combination and evolution of computer and film technology has led to the creation time-based art. The advancement in the computer as facile and accessible tool has enabled artists to create works that embody time as a formal element for expression and narrative structure. This has altered how the viewer perceives and understands meaning and narrative in visual art. It’s caused a shift in the viewer's perceptive eye from a "silent-eye" to an "eye-in-time." This eye is readily accustomed to recognize and accept time-based imagery and narratives that, in part or whole, contain combinations and instances of montage, superimposition, variability of frame rate, duration and non-linear sequence. This talk will describe the process, elements and formal principles of working with a computer to create time-based visual art. It will examine how the creative process differs when working with an art form distinguished by temporal qualities. The discussion also covers a definition of terms specific to the medium; its structural aspects; its relation and similarities to other mediums and how its narrative structure differs from conventional cinema.