by Alan Todd | Mar 25, 2022 | Art, Artist, Opinion
ALL ARTISTS LIE WHEN THEY ARE TELLING THE TRUTH. TRUTH AND LIE HAVE NO MEANING. How do artists perceive the world? The answer is the same way as everyone else. We all input sensory data. It’s what happens to that data that is interesting. The simplistic answer is that...
by Alan Todd | Mar 18, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
An art gallery owning friend was expressing her frustration with gallery visitors a few days ago. Many were in and out in two minutes – a quick walk around the walls and out of the door. There was no indication as to why they had visited the art gallery or what they...
by Alan Todd | Mar 11, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In 2014 in New Zealand, a land where sheep outnumber human beings by a factor of more than 6:1, the Wellington seat of government, granted sentient status to all so-called lower animal forms – that is any animal that is not human – under the Animal...
by Alan Todd | Mar 4, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, digital art, Opinion, Painting
I recently visited an art exhibition where a VR set up had participants helmeted and waving their gloved arms about to create a moving image of a dragon on a nearby screen. There was no shortage of takers who gleefully danced about. There is now nothing new or novel...
by Alan Todd | Feb 24, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
For a century or more the scientific community has fixated on not just the preservation of human life but the infinite extension of it. Google, among others, is investing huge sums of money into ways of rejigging organs, eliminating wasting diseases and...
