Paint or Pixel
THE DIGITAL DIVIDE IN
ILLUSTRATION ART
EDITED BY JANE FRANK
This collection of art and
essays, by the best of today’s science fiction
and fantasy artists, presents candid opinions behind
the revolution now taking place in the field. Are
computers creating a seismic shift in the creation of sf&f art,
or are they just another tool in the artist’s
paint box?
“A controversy is running
amongst artists and art ‘experts’: can the
output of a computer really be considered to be
‘fine art,’ or is it limited to
illustration? If it is difficult for the lay public to
know, --simply by looking at a piece, how much is the
work of the artist and how much was the result of a
series of zeros and ones, should that matter?“
— David A. Hardy
“There will be really cool
effects, an extraordinary number of choices, and little
substance underneath the sleek hardware.”
— Chris Moore
“Composing digitally has
enabled me to ward off the onset of staleness or,
perhaps boredom with the genre with which I’m
most connected — namely science
fiction.”
— Jim Burns
“One’s artistic
effort can become more a process than a creation, where
the artist gets lost in the machine. “
— Don Maitz
“… perhaps we need to
do nothing more complicated than to simply stop using
the phrase ‘computer-generated art’ and
start calling it by its right name:
‘computer-aided art’. “
— Ron Miller
“Put another way, is a
computer as flexible as a person’s
brain?”
— John Berkey
“The greatest challenge to
preserving the legacy of digital artists today is the
lack of a product, method or material which encodes
their work as a unique creation in a permanent
way.”
— Donato
Giancola
Edited by Jane Frank
Price: $29.95; 160 pages
ISBN-13 978-1-933065-10-6
Fully illustrated
ESSAYS & ART BY: • JOHN BERKEY • JAEL • JOE
DEVITO • DON MAITZ• RICHARD BOBER • JOHN
HOWE • TOM KIDD • JANNY WURTS • CHRIS
MOORE • EGGLETON • DONATO • MATTINGLY
• JIM BURNS • RON MILLER • DAVID CHERRY
• FRANK WU • PAT WILSHIRE • BARCLAY SHAW
• DAVE SEELEY • JIM VADEBONCEUR JR. •
ROBERT WEINBERG • JERRY WEIST • ALBERT LORENZ
• LES EDWARDS • JOHN HARRIS • ROMAS
KUKALIS • ARNIE FENNER • JILL BAUMAN •
JASON VON HOLLANDER • FRED GAMBINO • TODD
LOCKWOOD • STEVE BURG • ALAN M CLARK •
BEN BALDWIN • GEORGE HAGENAUR • SUSAN SHWARTZ
• ALAN LYNCH • JACOB McMURRAY • DOUG
ELLIS • DAVID LEUCHT • JOE MANNARINO •
JANE FRANK •
