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These elegant and simple works
represent the "second wave" of com-
puter art. They were produced
at the year-old Center for Creative
Imaging in Camden, Maine, where
artists, graphic designers, photogra-
phers and others in the visual arts
are immersing themselves in digital
technology and discovering what it
can offer to their creative processes.
Today the practiced eye gravitates
to work distinguished by esthetic
intentionality, rather than just the
effects of filters, juxtaposition, dis-
tortion and general excess char-
acterized by the first generation of
computer art. As this medium of
remarkable capabilities settles into
familiarity as a tool for artists, it
extends them into new and original
forms of expression: In Jean-Michel
Folon's stylized depiction of a
dove, or Paul Davis' cubist portrait,
the computer is used as directly
as a pencil. In Kenneth Harrison's
two works, he creates layered
effects that build on his complex
painting techniques but would
not be the same in his traditional
medium. Tim Durfee and Julie
Pincus employ cutting, pasting and
rendering in the forms we have
come to associate with contempo-
rary collage and yet have at their
fingertips the additional power to
transform the colors and shapes of
their given materials. These six
works are at the exciting point where
the tricks of technology become
invisible and the magic of the artist
emerges. Myrna Davis
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