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...
by Alan Todd | Feb 17, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Would the world in fact be better off if everyone agreed on what is beautiful? There is a school of thought originating with Kant that beauty, far from being a universal concept or even ‘in the eye of the beholder’ is no more than people looking for general agreement...
by Alan Todd | Feb 11, 2022 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In the 1990s I read a book that purported to predict what the new millennium would look like. Technologically, politically, socially, it had it all wrong. Technologically you could expect and forgive. Mapping the genome and going to Mars weren’t even on the...
