“Each age finds its own technique”.
– Jackson Pollock
ROOT WORDS (source: Oxford Dictionaries):
expressionism: A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.
technology :The application of scientific knowledge for practical purposes, especially in industry.
“You’re a Techspressionist when you say you are”.
INTRODUCING TECHSPRESSIONISM
In 1928, ruminating on the rapid pace and profound nature of change in the twentieth century, the French poet and philosopher Paul Valéry wrote: “We must expect great innovations to transform the entire technique of the arts, thereby affecting artistic invention itself and perhaps even bringing about an amazing change in our very notion of art.” This prediction so impressed the cultural critic Walter Benjamin that he used it as the epigraph of his famous 1935 essay, “The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility” (as it was originally titled). These writers and others were pondering the same issues that face the artists who now, nearly a century later, self-identify as Techspressionists.
Thanks to digital technologies and the Internet, works of art have become, in Valéry’s formulation, ubiquitous; as he foresaw, “We shall only have to summon them and there they will be.” This level of accessibility requires us to adopt and accept new attitudes toward creative expression. As Benjamin observed, the debate regarding the artistic validity of new media, begun with photography and cinema in the late nineteenth century, centers on the so-called aura of the singular work of art. And the aura of uniqueness remains powerful. Yet a digitally-generated artwork is not a reproduction in the conventional sense—that is, a copy of something else—though it can be, and often is, reproduced in multiples that are indistinguishable one from another.
Hand-made versus mechanical. One-off versus duplication. Such binaries ultimately resolve in light of the works of art themselves. By whatever technique it’s created, Techspressionist imagery generates its own aura, deriving its authenticity from the artist’s intention. Expression is paramount; technology is merely the delivery system. Jackson Pollock faced a similar concern. Frustrated by the focus on his materials and methods rather than the content of his paintings, he insisted, “It doesn’t make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something is being said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.”
Helen A. Harrison
Director, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center
June 2022
Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond opening reception at Southampton Arts Center, April 23, 2022.
Pictured artists (left to right): Diane Marsella, Carter Hodgkin, Renata Janiszewska (on iPad), Darcy Gerbarg, Mary Boochever, Tommy Mintz, Verneda Lights, Tom Dunn (SAC Executive Director), Nina Sobell, Roy Nicholson, Nina Yankowitz, Roz Dimon, Colin Goldberg, ScoJo, Steve Miller, Patrick Lichty, Tali Hinkis (kneeling), Christine Sciulli (kneeling), John Zieman (back row), Kyle Lapidus, Mary Ann Strandell, Holly Gordon, Michael Rees (back row) Dalton Portella (kneeling), Joe Diamond (SAC General Manager), Dan Welden, Paul D. Miller aka DJ Spooky, Anne Spalter, Gregory Little. Artworks behind group by Frank Gillette. Photo ©2022 Rob Rich/SocietyAllure.com
PLEASE NOTE: THE REGISTRATION PERIOD IS NOW CLOSED // REGISTERED ARTIST SUBMISSION DEADLINE: DECEMBER 15
UPCOMING SALON
SALON 77: FEATURED ARTIST STEVE MILLER
MODERATOR: COLIN GOLDBERG
Artists are invited to share their work on the topic of sculpture within the context of art and technology.
Salon: 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
Afterparty: After recording stops (1:30-???)
If you would like to share your work via screen-sharing, please arrive at 11:45.
THIS JAM WILL BE RECORDED.
Techspressionist Salons are bi-weekly artist meetups where artists can present their work and discuss matters relating to art and technology. They are attended by artists listed in our Techspressionist Visual Artists Index and are also open to interested individuals on our mailing list. The First Techspressionist Salon was held on September 1, 2020, and included artists Colin Goldberg, Patrick Lichty, Steve Miller and Oz Van Rosen, as well as art historian Helen Harrison. During this session, the working definition of Techspressionism was decided upon by the participants as: “An artistic approach in which technology is utilized as a means to express emotional experience.”
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Yearning to share your work with one or two other artists?
We will sign on, and each briefly (30 -60 seconds) say what we plan to work on. Then we work for 1 hour. After 1 hour we have the option to briefly share what we did. Total session 1.5 hours.
Please take the survey below to help us form our groups. We may make multiple groups, so as to accommodate as many time zones and work/personal schedules as possible.
CURATORS IN CONVERSATION
Techspressionism: Curators in Conversation with Christiane Paul and Helen A. Harrison is the first of a series of Roundtable Discussions created by Techspressionist artists. This conversation is a discussion focusing of Techspressionism as it relates to art-historical movements of the past as well as to digital art at large.
Christiane Paul is Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art as well as Professor in the School of Media Studies at The New School. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation’s 2016 Arts Writing Award in Digital Art, and her books are A Companion to Digital Art (Blackwell-Wiley, May 2016); Digital Art (Thames and Hudson, 2003, 2008, 2015, 2023); Context Providers – Conditions of Meaning in Media Arts (Intellect, 2011; Chinese edition, 2012); and New Media in the White Cube and Beyond (UC Press, 2008). At the Whitney Museum she curated exhibitions including Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art 1965 – 2018 (2018/19), Cory Arcangel: Pro Tools (2011) and Profiling (2007), and is responsible for artport, the museum’s portal to Internet art.
Helen A. Harrison, a former New York Times art critic and NPR arts commentator, is the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, New York. A specialist in modern American art, she has been the curator of the Parrrish Art Museum and Guild Hall Museum and a guest curator at the Queens Museum. Her books include Hamptons Bohemia: Two Centuries of Artists and Writers on the Beach, monographs on Jackson Pollock and Larry Rivers, and three mystery novels set in the New York art world.
Bronx-born artist Colin Goldberg’s work explores the relationship between technology and personal expression. His studio practice bridges multiple disciplines, notably painting and digital media. Goldberg first used the term Techspressionism as the title for a solo exhibition in Southampton NY in 2011, and curated the first large-scale group exhibition of Techspressionist works, Techspressionism: Digital and Beyond at Southampton Arts Center (Southampton NY, 2022).
TECHSPRESSIONIST ARTWORKS
Curated by Renata Janiszewska
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Nick Wachs
Hamburg, Germany 🇩🇪
@fluidbodiez
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Fluidbodiez is a visual artist who merges traditional and digital techniques into their own world. How does the fusion of our ongoing reality based on emotions, physical bodies and digital personalities feel? Fluidbodiez is exploring this question with their mixed media practice.
#techspressionism
@techspressionism.de
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Nick Wachs
Hamburg, Germany 🇩🇪
@fluidbodiez
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Fluidbodiez is a visual artist who merges traditional and digital techniques into their own world. How does the fusion of our ongoing reality based on emotions, physical bodies and digital personalities feel? Fluidbodiez is exploring this question with their mixed media practice.
#techspressionism
@techspressionism.de
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Nick Wachs
Hamburg, Germany 🇩🇪
@fluidbodiez
.
Fluidbodiez is a visual artist who merges traditional and digital techniques into their own world. How does the fusion of our ongoing reality based on emotions, physical bodies and digital personalities feel? Fluidbodiez is exploring this question with their mixed media practice.
#techspressionism
@techspressionism.de
#Techspressionism is in @thewrong.biennale 🌏🌎🌍 To visit, click TheWrong.org link in bio Exhibition curated by @colingoldberg
Join us November 2, 2023 for our monthly salon. All are welcome, pre-registration required.
Click TS website link in bio, go to SALON to pre- register.
Much like the audacious Phreakers who pushed the boundaries of telecommunications systems in their quest for exploration and understanding, the Techspressionists embark on a parallel journey, wielding digital tools to push the limits of artistic expression. Just as Phreaking was a pioneer of technology-driven subcultures, the Techspressionists embrace the computer and its extensions as integral to the contemporary human experience. Just as the Phreakers’ manipulation of technology was an art form in itself, the Techspressionists view coding as an aesthetic endeavor. Both groups emphasize that technology, whether it’s telecom networks or digital platforms, remains an extension of human creativity, opening up uncharted territories of artistic potential and social engagement.
– Lee Schnaiberg
Artists are invited to share their work on this topic via screen-sharing in the context of art and technology.
Moderator: Lee Schnaiberg
Salon: November 2, 2023 12 p.m.-1:30 p.m. ET
Afterparty: After recording stops (1:30-???)
If you would like to share your work via screen-sharing, please arrive at 11:45 a.m.
Techspressionism is a part of The Wrong Digital Biennale @thewrong.biennale Thank you curator @colingoldberg 🔗 in bio Open now #techspressionism
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Moritz H. Albrecht
Frankfurt, Germany 🇩🇪
@albrecht.art
Moritz H. Albrecht aka [M•H•A] is an artist & radiologist with a scientific background. He mainly creates abstract paintings, as well as artworks using X-rays, Computed Tomography & Magnetic Resonance Imaging. More recently, he explores concepts of fusing these artistic fields. He also currently works on painted abstract reliefs with gypsum & construction foam.
In addition, [M•H•A] curates the online gallery www.radiology-art.com and @artsyradiology in order to provide nonprofit hubs for artists who also create Radiology-Art and beyond.
#techspressionism
@techspressionism.de
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Moritz H. Albrecht
Frankfurt, Germany 🇩🇪
@albrecht.art
Moritz H. Albrecht aka [M•H•A] is an artist & radiologist with a scientific background. He mainly creates abstract paintings, as well as artworks using X-rays, Computed Tomography & Magnetic Resonance Imaging. More recently, he explores concepts of fusing these artistic fields. He also currently works on painted abstract reliefs with gypsum & construction foam.
In addition, [M•H•A] curates the online gallery www.radiology-art.com and @artsyradiology in order to provide nonprofit hubs for artists who also create Radiology-Art and beyond.
#techspressionism
@techspressionism.de
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Moritz H. Albrecht
Frankfurt, Germany 🇩🇪
@albrecht.art
Moritz H. Albrecht aka [M•H•A] is an artist & radiologist with a scientific background. He mainly creates abstract paintings, as well as artworks using X-rays, Computed Tomography & Magnetic Resonance Imaging. More recently, he explores concepts of fusing these artistic fields. He also currently works on painted abstract reliefs with gypsum & construction foam.
In addition, [M•H•A] curates the online gallery www.radiology-art.com and @artsyradiology in order to provide nonprofit hubs for artists who also create Radiology-Art and beyond.
#techspressionism
@techspressionism.de
Techspressionism:Cyberiana is an online world where artists meet to exchange ideas and share their virtual studios. Opening December 1, 2023
#techspressionism #tscyberiana
Techspressionism:Cyberiana is an online world where artists meet to exchange ideas and share a virtual studio. To express your interest in participating, please fill out the Google form, link in bio. Open to all. Deadline to apply is October 15 🍄#techspressionism #tscyberiana
Expressions of interest now being accepted.... 🔗 to Google form in bio
#techspressionism
🍄🍄🍄 Using digital technologies over the course of the long pandemic, artists have formed new connections that affected their work. In these new, involuntary spaces and relationships, artworks with original characteristics were created. We assert that despite the relaxation of the pandemic’s constraints, there will not be a return to previous conditions. In any case, the rapid rise of VR and AI resources in the meantime would make it impossible for digital artists to continue on as before.
It is from novel and unfamiliar spaces that these new works originate; and how the work of digital artists has changed is still nebulous and emerging.
We propose Techspressionism: Cyberiana as a town square for artistic neighbors; a locus of attention for a community of creative artists who value trading and sharing ideas, knowledge, and discoveries. Techspressionism: Cyberiana is about international connections between artists, sharing concepts and philosophies. 🍄🍄🍄 🍄Open to all. Deadline to apply: October 15, 2023
Exhibition opens December 1, 2023
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Tim Cierpiszewski
Leipzig, Germany 🇩🇪
@timcierpiszewski
Tim Cierpiszewski is a conceptual artist. He uses the possibilities of various computer programs to create a complex cosmos of images, which as such ranges from extremely overloaded to extremely reduced works. To present these digital, often non-representational works, Cierpiszewski embeds them in architecture-related spatial installations, using wall designs, sculptural displays, panel paintings and book works.
#techspressionism
@techspressionism.de
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Tim Cierpiszewski
Leipzig, Germany 🇩🇪
@timcierpiszewski
Tim Cierpiszewski is a conceptual artist. He uses the possibilities of various computer programs to create a complex cosmos of images, which as such ranges from extremely overloaded to extremely reduced works. To present these digital, often non-representational works, Cierpiszewski embeds them in architecture-related spatial installations, using wall designs, sculptural displays, panel paintings and book works.
#techspressionism
@techspressionism.de
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Tim Cierpiszewski
Leipzig, Germany 🇩🇪
@timcierpiszewski
Tim Cierpiszewski is a conceptual artist. He uses the possibilities of various computer programs to create a complex cosmos of images, which as such ranges from extremely overloaded to extremely reduced works. To present these digital, often non-representational works, Cierpiszewski embeds them in architecture-related spatial installations, using wall designs, sculptural displays, panel paintings and book works.
#techspressionism
@techspressionism.de
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Jan Swinburne
Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
@theswinburnecomplex
Jan Swinburne’s intermedia practice overlaps images, sculpture, and experimental moving image art in two streams: Gallery oriented exhibitions, and time based experimental forms. Her thematic focus revolves around words, language as landscape, degenerated and regenerated images and sounds.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Jan Swinburne
Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
@theswinburnecomplex
Jan Swinburne’s intermedia practice overlaps images, sculpture, and experimental moving image art in two streams: Gallery oriented exhibitions, and time based experimental forms. Her thematic focus revolves around words, language as landscape, degenerated and regenerated images and sounds.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Jan Swinburne
Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦
@theswinburnecomplex
Jan Swinburne’s intermedia practice overlaps images, sculpture, and experimental moving image art in two streams: Gallery oriented exhibitions, and time based experimental forms. Her thematic focus revolves around words, language as landscape, degenerated and regenerated images and sounds.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Lee Schnaiberg
Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦
@leeschnaiberg
Too brute to be fine, too shrewd to be naïve
An outsider's outsider, Schnaiberg's first art teacher was his grandfather, who studied with Arthur Lismer then built an Art Brut collage 'salon' for over 20 years...
After seventeen semesters in art-school [kicked out of some, quit some] Lee finally recieved a BFA. Spent a decade VJing and making experimental documentaries about climate-change solutions. Lee has won awards for his paintings (Laureat du Quebec; CollegeArt '86), videos (Canadian Student Film Festival), and climate movies (EarthVision'98 in Santa Cruz).
The Space In Between has recently been written about in Tripping on nothing: placebo psychedelics and contextual factors (published in Springer Nature 2020) where they imply his paintings make people as high as if they ate mushrooms.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Lee Schnaiberg
Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦
@leeschnaiberg
Too brute to be fine, too shrewd to be naïve
An outsider's outsider, Schnaiberg's first art teacher was his grandfather, who studied with Arthur Lismer then built an Art Brut collage 'salon' for over 20 years...
After seventeen semesters in art-school [kicked out of some, quit some] Lee finally recieved a BFA. Spent a decade VJing and making experimental documentaries about climate-change solutions. Lee has won awards for his paintings (Laureat du Quebec; CollegeArt '86), videos (Canadian Student Film Festival), and climate movies (EarthVision'98 in Santa Cruz).
The Space In Between has recently been written about in Tripping on nothing: placebo psychedelics and contextual factors (published in Springer Nature 2020) where they imply his paintings make people as high as if they ate mushrooms.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Lee Schnaiberg
Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦
@leeschnaiberg
Too brute to be fine, too shrewd to be naïve
An outsider's outsider, Schnaiberg's first art teacher was his grandfather, who studied with Arthur Lismer then built an Art Brut collage 'salon' for over 20 years...
After seventeen semesters in art-school [kicked out of some, quit some] Lee finally recieved a BFA. Spent a decade VJing and making experimental documentaries about climate-change solutions. Lee has won awards for his paintings (Laureat du Quebec; CollegeArt '86), videos (Canadian Student Film Festival), and climate movies (EarthVision'98 in Santa Cruz).
The Space In Between has recently been written about in Tripping on nothing: placebo psychedelics and contextual factors (published in Springer Nature 2020) where they imply his paintings make people as high as if they ate mushrooms.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Martin Ostrachowski
Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦
@mlodotart
Martin’s work is extremely personal, intimate, and explores the concepts of his identity. He enjoys the versatility of clouds, their peculiarity of being intangible, in continuous change and transience, while remaining familiar and relatable to everybody.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Martin Ostrachowski
Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦
@mlodotart
Martin’s work is extremely personal, intimate, and explores the concepts of his identity. He enjoys the versatility of clouds, their peculiarity of being intangible, in continuous change and transience, while remaining familiar and relatable to everybody.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Martin Ostrachowski
Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦
@mlodotart
Martin’s work is extremely personal, intimate, and explores the concepts of his identity. He enjoys the versatility of clouds, their peculiarity of being intangible, in continuous change and transience, while remaining familiar and relatable to everybody.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Lindsay Kokoska
Halifax, Canada 🇨🇦
@infinite_mantra
Lindsay Kokoska is a mixed media artist, who combines traditional and digital techniques in her abstract and surreal art. Her work is inspired by her travels, yoga practice, and interest in spirituality. With a unique style that blends animation and fine art compositing, her pieces have a dreamlike quality that captures the viewer's imagination.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Lindsay Kokoska
Halifax, Canada 🇨🇦
@infinite_mantra
Lindsay Kokoska is a mixed media artist, who combines traditional and digital techniques in her abstract and surreal art. Her work is inspired by her travels, yoga practice, and interest in spirituality. With a unique style that blends animation and fine art compositing, her pieces have a dreamlike quality that captures the viewer's imagination.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Lindsay Kokoska
Halifax, Canada 🇨🇦
@infinite_mantra
Lindsay Kokoska is a mixed media artist, who combines traditional and digital techniques in her abstract and surreal art. Her work is inspired by her travels, yoga practice, and interest in spirituality. With a unique style that blends animation and fine art compositing, her pieces have a dreamlike quality that captures the viewer's imagination.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Colman Jones
Lion's Head, Canada 🇨🇦
@colman.jones
Colman Jones is a digital artist /musician, /composer, photographer, ex-TV/radio producer and award winning science writer. He composes and performs progressive/ experimental/ambient music. He loves photography and cats.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Colman Jones
Lion's Head, Canada 🇨🇦
@colman.jones
Colman Jones is a digital artist /musician, /composer, photographer, ex-TV/radio producer and award winning science writer. He composes and performs progressive/ experimental/ambient music. He loves photography and cats.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
Today’s featured #Techspressionist visual artist:
Colman Jones
Lion's Head, Canada 🇨🇦
@colman.jones
Colman Jones is a digital artist /musician, /composer, photographer, ex-TV/radio producer and award winning science writer. He composes and performs progressive/ experimental/ambient music. He loves photography and cats.
#techspressionism
@techspressionismcanada
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