That same week, at the ADAA Art Show in the Park Avenue Armory, I entered New York dealer Janet Borden's booth, which was full of new works, an intriguing series of all-in-one combination paintings/drawings/photographs, computer generated but highly figurative depictions of louche literary figures.
Unless engineers actually find a way to breathe a soul into a computer - pardon my figurative speech - rest assured that, when it comes to conveying and interpreting meaning using a natural language, a machine will never fully take our place.
I was slowly becoming my own version of Bumblebee Man, heating up a figurative can of beans behind a computer.
Please feel free to scream at your computer screen, throw a figurative (or real) shoe at my Twitter feed (@Blumslaw), curse me to the heavens, propose alternative awards or, if so inclined, applaud the results.
Borges, a well-established Latin American artist whose style is typically described as neo-figurative, "paints" these images in his computer with the post-modern technique duborcom, essentially painting on a touch screen.
As "Tokyo Eyes" pursues the relationship of Hinano, receptive to first love, and the alienated K, who lives among noisy computer games and shelves filled with phonograph records, the four figurative eyes of its screenwriter and director are perceiving youngsters with absent parents, nasty xenophobia and a sprawling, impersonal city webbed by subways and buses.
Language acquisition often relies on learning abstract and figurative concepts that are very hard -- if not impossible -- to "explain" to a computer.
The digital and organic, the familiar and impossible, the figurative and the abstract: these dualistic concepts are the subject of a new series of computer-generated artworks, called Orthographics, by artist and founder of art collective Phenomena Labs, Ronen Tanchum.
