ANSGARD THOMSON, CYBERARTIST
Prepared for the special virtual millennium show at Lastplace.com 1999-2000
It is a great honor for me to be asked by Dr.Rodney Chang known
as Pygoya, a great leader in the new cyberart
world, to celebrate the millennium in his "Truly Web Art Museum" with works
generated on the computer.
I have tried to visualize the free flowing rhythm of time in space we are engaged in as
cyberartists. Using every angle and technical advantage over the traditional methods was
my aim.The flow and movements of our so exciting time as members of that passionate group
of cyberartists. (Most will never ever receive any financial benefits for sharing their
art on the Internet).
I am convinced that the electronic media
will find more and more artists enjoying the freedom to explore all the possibilities the
technical evolution of art has to offer.
Old traditional painting techniques might also be revived by the open communication on the
Internet. The programmers have not missed creating such tools to imitate the brushstrokes
of some famous masters and some art students might understand how highly technical their
brush strokes were to achieve these effects. They were highly criticized at their
time.
I would like to name mainly two artists Picasso and Matisse I admired for their abilities
to renew themselves in their works and were most resourceful to move on to new ventures
regardless were the other modern movements were leading to.