COLIN GOLDBERG

Colin Goldberg coined the term Techspressionism in 2011. He is recognized for his role in developing the community of artists working with technology that forms the core of this international movement. The artist was born in the Bronx to parents of Japanese and Jewish ancestry, both Ph.D chemists. He started with digital art as a high school student in the 1980s, coding ASCII animations in BASIC on a Commodore-64 computer. Goldberg studied painting at SUNY Binghamton and, upon graduating in 1994, moved to New York City to pursue his career as an artist He supported his studio as a freelancer at advertising agencies, where he designed and produced some of the web’s first consumer­ facing websites for brands such as Snapple, Popular Science, and Merrill Lynch. He used the same tools in the evenings to create his first abstract digital artworks. In 2005, the artist began running painted surfaces through his inkjet printer. On the basis of these experimental paintings, he was awarded a full scholarship to the MFA Computer Art program at BGSU, which he completed in 2008. Goldberg is a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant recipient whose works have been featured on PBS, WIRED, and the New York Times.

Goldberg lives and works in North Bennington, Vermont, with his daughter, Aya.
 

RENATA JANISZEWSKA

The elements of Janiszewska’s art are both computer-generated and decorated with digital paintings which are drawn by hand with a stylus on the screen of her device. These elements act as characters in the mise en scene made using multiple apps. There is layering, cutting out, blending, superimposition and doubling of material to produce still images or animated loops. Recursivity and chance play a part. She edits these like an early hip-hop artist: connecting the loops using simple mobile editing software. Janiszewska composes and records her own soundtracks.

The DIV quality of her working method frees her tremendously to express her emotions, as a good Techspressionist does. The apps allow her to complete and share work quickly, facilitating experimentation. Hybridization allows for multiple techniques to be used and the file travels through numerous formats in a trice. Some of her themes are bio­ degradation,altered states of perception, temporal erosion and feminism.

Her works are in both Canadian and international collections. Selected exhibitions at Kingsborough Art Museum, NY,Southampton Arts Centre, NY, Cotuit Centre for the Arts, MA, University of Wisconsin, Patchogue, NY and the Cape Cod Museum of Art, MA.

Janiszewska lives in Lion’s Head, Canada.
 

KAREN LAFLEUR

Karen LaFleur is a Techspressionist artist, writer and animator. Her work explores the interplay between interior and exterior worlds with a focus on adaptability. She reveals vulnerabilities in complex relationships and highlights resiliencies in these ever-shifting landscapes.

LaFleur creates fine art moving images that unfold a complex mixture of 2D and 3D blended imagery. Since 1981 she’s trained in various applications transferring her traditional art skills into moving images that dance across the screen.

Movement is an integral part of LaFleur’s creative process whether digitally rendered or traditionally captured. Her pencil drawings on vellum form a base for her moving image works and include the tiniest of details. Each piece is then digitally painted and animated in a variety of applications to create a world of color, shape and movement. Her skill in visual storytelling combined with Nancy Tucker’s narrative music, brings her moving image works to life with a sense of story rhythm that enriches the work’s believability.

Exhibits Include: Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington DC, Fuller Museum MA, Union Square San Francisco CA, Hudson Valley MOCA NY, Cotuit Center for the Arts Video Wall MA, MOCA L.l.ghts NY, Cape Cod Museum of Art MA, MOWNA, NYC, The Wrong Biennial, Southampton Art Center NY, Kingsborough Art Museum, Brooklyn NY.

LaFleur lives and works on the island of Cape Cod, MA
 

JAN SWINBURNE

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 speech, language as landscape, degenerated and regenerated images and sounds.

Swinburne has screened/exhibited internationally in Greenwich England, New York City, Brooklyn (Brooklyn Art Museum), (Experi­ MENTAL Festival 6), New Jersey(Filmideo/lndexArt Centre),South Hampton (TECHSPRESSIONISM: Digital & Beyond), Washington DC (RhizomeDC), Croatia ( fu:bar 2k23) and in Canada (MUFF, Vector, Art On The Screens, Trinity Square Video, Photophobia, Pleasure Dome TNW tour, Long Winter and more). Her sonic works have been published in The Wire Magazine and through Alrealon Musique record label.

Swinburne works and lives in Toronto, Canada.