Martin Rieser Artist and Writer Electronic Print

 

The first International survey exhibition of Digital Printmaking: the Electronic Print at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol 14th October to 25th November 1988

 

33 Artists from around the world were represented including:

 

Manuel Barbadillo

Vera Molnar

Isaac Victor Kerlow

Barbara Nessim

Lillian Schwartz

Joel Slayton

Richard Wright

Edward Zajec

 

 

 

 

"The boundaries of art are constantly blurring and it seems no more fruitful to ask the question "Is it art?" . than to question the purity of a particular medium. Thankfully, it is no longer necessary to argue for the inclusion of photography in the definition of a work of art, although for some any mechanical process remains anathema. Artists make art, not tools or media . While who is an artist and who a stylist or worse must be left to intelligent judgement and time; the term 'computer art' is just as fatuous a description of this process as 'pencil art' is as a description of the act of drawing"

 

(Extract from the catalogue introduction)