Make plans to come visit the Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery at UCSC’s Cowell College, where two visually opulent shows will open on October 12.
Astonishing large-scale images by visual technologist Peter Harris, Flowers in the Digital Age will be shown in the Main Gallery, and in the Annex Gallery, a show of new work by painter Betsy Miller.
Closing Reception for both artists is on Sunday, November 21, 2-4pm. The artists will be present. The public is invited. Gallery hours are 11am – 4pm Tues-Sun. Contact gallery director Linda Pope, 831 459-2953, for details.
“Visual Technologist” ?
Will the wonders of word-coinage never cease?
Does the “digital age” change the nature of flowers by enabling more and more fine-grained simulations of the “real thing”? Or is that purple arrangement on a black field even “real”. Perhaps its more real than reality itself!
Reality is more real than the real reality ever was, especially when it’s a media-generated simulacra. We seem to prefer the simulacra to the “real thing”, for some reason. Maybe it’s because that image wasn’t the real thing at all, but something more tasty than the real thing could ever be?
Funny how this same effect spills over into simulacra of food in a picture versus the real thing on a plate.
Baudrillard would be proud.