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Trailblazing women working in digital arts media and education
established the Midwest as an international center for the artistic
and digital revolution in the 1980s and beyond. Foundational events
at the University of Illinois and the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago created an authentic, community-driven atmosphere of
creative expression, innovation, and interdisciplinary
collaboration that crossed gender lines and introduced artistically
informed approaches to advanced research. Interweaving historical
research with interviews and full-color illustrations, New Media
Futures captures the spirit and contributions of twenty-two women
working within emergent media as diverse as digital games, virtual
reality, medicine, supercomputing visualization, and browser-based
art. The editors and contributors give voice as creators integral
to the development of these new media and place their works at the
forefront of social change and artistic inquiry. What emerges is
the dramatic story of how these Midwestern explorations in the
digital arts produced a web of fascinating relationships. These
fruitful collaborations helped usher in the digital age that
propelled social media. Contributors: Carolina Cruz-Niera, Colleen
Bushell, Nan Goggin, Mary Rasmussen, Dana Plepys, Maxine Brown,
Martyl Langsdorf, Joan Truckenbrod, Barbara Sykes, Abina Manning,
Annette Barbier, Margaret Dolinsky, Tiffany Holmes, Claudia Hart,
Brenda Laurel, Copper Giloth, Jane Veeder, Sally Rosenthal, Lucy
Petrovic, Donna J. Cox, Ellen Sandor, and Janine Fron.
Trailblazing women working in digital arts media and education
established the Midwest as an international center for the artistic
and digital revolution in the 1980s and beyond. Foundational events
at the University of Illinois and the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago created an authentic, community-driven atmosphere of
creative expression, innovation, and interdisciplinary
collaboration that crossed gender lines and introduced artistically
informed approaches to advanced research. Interweaving historical
research with interviews and full-color illustrations, New Media
Futures captures the spirit and contributions of twenty-two women
working within emergent media as diverse as digital games, virtual
reality, medicine, supercomputing visualization, and browser-based
art. The editors and contributors give voice as creators integral
to the development of these new media and place their works at the
forefront of social change and artistic inquiry. What emerges is
the dramatic story of how these Midwestern explorations in the
digital arts produced a web of fascinating relationships. These
fruitful collaborations helped usher in the digital age that
propelled social media. Contributors: Carolina Cruz-Niera, Colleen
Bushell, Nan Goggin, Mary Rasmussen, Dana Plepys, Maxine Brown,
Martyl Langsdorf, Joan Truckenbrod, Barbara Sykes, Abina Manning,
Annette Barbier, Margaret Dolinsky, Tiffany Holmes, Claudia Hart,
Brenda Laurel, Copper Giloth, Jane Veeder, Sally Rosenthal, Lucy
Petrovic, Donna J. Cox, Ellen Sandor, and Janine Fron.
John Wilde (1919-2006) was one of the most notable artists in the
Magic Realist school of painting, garnering attention far beyond
Wisconsin, his native state. Wilde's gift for drawing and painting
diverged from the style of regional artists such as John Steuart
Curry and evolved into an aesthetic characterized by beguiling,
intensely detailed images. He was particularly adept at mixing the
discipline of taxonomy with icons of the subconscious.
Things of nature and the nature of things informed his work for
some seventy years. In painstakingly crafted vignettes of figures
and props and still life arrangements, Wilde served up grand
parables on the existential condition of modern man. These are
timeless and enduring narratives, drawing on traditions from the
northern and early Renaissance periods and Flemish paintings to
Symbolist and Surrealist iconography and strategy. Wilde amasses a
potpourri of sources and motifs and brings them up to the present
moment by setting his compositions in the Wisconsin landscape just
outside his studio door. This catalogue presents a superb overview
of Wilde's oeuvre, including the full palette of still lifes,
allegorical landscapes, and portraits, and covers the period of his
work from the 1940s to recent work from the 1990s.
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