Reviews, Critiques, Essays

Here are interesting and insightful reviews, critiques, essays and articles on digital art, written by MOCA staff or commissioned by MOCA. These articles are intended for a general audience. MOCA expects that its commentary on digital art is free of academic jargon and intellectual pretense.

JD JarvisThat Necessary Little Evil
The Artist's Statement

JD JarvisDigital Art and Divination
If This, Then That

Randy MorrisOn False Color Images
There's more to color than meets the eye

H. Gay AllenFive Blind Men and the Elephant
What Is Art?

H. Gay AllenAre You Nutz
What Makes You Click?

Bruce PriceBlog Report
Big Shots Ignore Columnist. World Stunned! or: Yo, what's up with digital?

John HollowayPromise, Paradox and Opportunity
An essay

John Antoine LabadieThe Digital Past Speaks to the Digital Present—and Future
A commentary

John Antoine LabadieThe New Media Soup
Some thoughts on newer technologies and the visual arts

John Antoine LabadiePrintmaking: Traditions and New Trends
A dialogue

John Antoine LabadiePrintmaking: A Digital Perspective

John Antoine LabadieSome Thoughts on IT in 2001: In the Arts…and Beyond

JD Jarvis and John Antoine LabadieDigital Art, Where Art Thou?
An email correspondence

Mamta B. HerlandInternet and the New Web Art
A Master's Thesis

Don ArcherDigital: Printmaking Now
Reviewed at the Brooklyn Museum of Art

Don ArcherNew York Digital Salon: Selected Works
At the Corning Gallery at Steuben

JD JarvisNew Markets for Digital Art
Exploring the promise of new markets for digital art

JD JarvisGoing Digital
The Practice and Vision of Digital Artists: The Velocity of Imagination (book excerpt)

JD JarvisThe New Media Challenge
An essay: art, entertainment or design

JD JarvisWhat Do Digital Artists Do: Photo, Paint and Print
A commentary

JD JarvisToward a Digital Aesthetic
An essay

JD JarvisReview of Current MOCA Exhibits

JD JarvisAn Art Lover's Guide to Digital Art
Essay — and take the MOCA tour below

JD JarvisThe MOCA Tour
Companion tour to An Art Lover's Guide

JD JarvisFrom the Box Up
A Digital Artist's Journal: life with a new printer