ARTISTS - Techspressionism

TECHSPRESSIONIST VISUAL ARTISTS INDEX

“You’re a Techspressionist when you say you are”

We are actively seeking artists who utilize technology as a means to express emotional experience. If you relate to this approach and are interested in being listed on this page, you can submit your work for a curatorial review by using the hashtag #techspressionism when posting your art to Instagram. Selected artists using the hashtag are reposted to the official @Techspressionism Instagram feed, and are eligible to be added to the index of Techspressionist Visual Artists posted above.

Artist included in the index are encouraged to continue using the hashtag to help “spread the meme”. Artists in our index can leverage their inclusion and help support to the movement through the usage of the terms Techpsressionism and/or Techspressionist within statements or profiles and linking back to Techspressionism.com where the term is defined. Bringing the term into common usage will help the movement gain visibility and legitimacy within the art establishment and internet at large, as well as boosting Google page rank for both this site and the individual artist websites or profiles.

FOUNDING ARTISTS

Colin Goldberg

Colin Goldberg is an American artist born in the Bronx, New York in 1971. The artist coined the term Techspressionism in 2011 for use as the title of a solo exhibition. It was first described as a movement in this 2014 WIRED article and was elaborated upon in this 2015 PBS interview with the artist. As an undergraduate painting student at at Binghamton University, Goldberg studied under Abstract Expressionist painter Angelo Ippolito. He holds a MFA in Computer Art from BGSU and is a recipient of grants from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and the New York State Council on the Arts. Goldberg’s works reside in the permanent collections of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, Stony Brook University Hospital and the Islip Art Museum. Goldberg served as a guest panelist for “Abstract Expressionism in the 21st Century Part 2”, a symposium held at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, and was a guest speaker at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY for PechaKucha Hamptons in 2019.

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Patrick Lichty

Patrick Lichty is a media artist, writer, curator and designer of over 30 years. Born in Akron Ohio in 1962, he was raised on art, technology, and science fiction. After getting his BS in Electronic Engineering and working in the discipline, he began an art and design studio in 1990, and created work for Accenture, Allstate Insurance and the X-Prize. He graduated with Honors from Bowling Green University with an MFA in Computer Art.

As an activist and artist, he was part of or worked with the collectives RTMark, Pocha Nostra, The Yes Men, Terminal Time, Second Front, Shared Universe, and Critical Art Ensemble, showing in the Venice and Whitney Bienniales, and received the Herb Alpert/Calarts Fellowship. His writing on VR, AR, and media culture are widely published, and for 10 years he was Editor in Chief of Media Arts Journal Intelligent Agent, published by Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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Steve Miller

Steve Miller has been working with art, science and technology since 1980. He has collaborated with the 2003 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, Rod MacKinnon in a project about human protein. He has worked at Brookhaven National Labs and at CERN in Geneva where he lectured to the Theory Group. For a decade, Miller worked on a photographic project about the Amazon. Miller proposed to give Brazil, our planetary lungs, a medical check-up by taking x-rays of the flora and fauna. The project entitled Heath of the Planet has been published as two monographs, Radiographic, and Surf/Skate published by Glitterati Editions. His work has been presented as solo exhibitions in Paris, Hong Kong, Rio, London, Boston , New York City and, most recently, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, DC.

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Oz Van Rosen

Oz Van Rosen is an artist based in New York and Southampton. Using the underlying technology of photography, her art is created by randomly corrupting, bending and destroying digital data in an image to create an unpredictable aesthetic. By turning pixels into paintbrushes, she pushes the boundaries of photography into new visual possibilities, creating unique images that defer to the whim of technology. In this Beyond Photography interview, Oz describes her work as Abstract Techspressionism. Oz studied art at the New York School of the Arts.

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GROUP ADVISOR

Helen Harrison

Helen A. Harrison, the director of the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center in East Hampton, is the former curator of the Parrish Art Museum in Southampton and Guild Hall Museum in East Hampton. She has also been a guest curator at the Queens Museum in Flushing, has taught at the School of Visual Arts, and currently holds an adjunct faculty position in Stony Brook University’s Department of Art. From 1978-2006, she wrote art reviews and feature articles for the Long Island section of The New York Times, and she was the visual arts commentator for WLIU 88.3 FM, Long Island University’s NPR-affiliated radio station, from 2004-2009. Her articles, essays and reviews have appeared in numerous scholarly and popular publications, and she’s the author of several books, including, most recently, two mystery novels set in the New York art world.