Submitted by Ray Man mailto:info@dancingimage.com at 2003-03-11 18:41:01

Ray Man writes "IMMEDIATE RELEASE John Vega Releases New Digital Art Work: WIRESCAPES 1.0 Contact: Ray Man info@dancingimage.com March 7, 2003 WIRESCAPES 1.0 LAUNCHED WITH A GALLERY EXHITION AT THE DAIRY CENTER FOR THE ARTS AND AN ONLINE EXHIBITION AT THE HYPERX GALLERY AT ALT-X. BOULDER, Colorado (March 7, 2003) -- Digital artist John Vega, instructor and researcher in Digital Art at the CU-Boulder Fine Arts Department has launched a new Flash-based generative artwork with a gallery exhibition at the Dairy Center for the Arts (Boulder) and an online exhibition at HyperX at alt-x. Wirescapes 1.0 is an exploration of the machine as conduit to the art idea. Interaction with the Virtual Sculpture Interface allows for the generation of infinite form and fleeting moments of beauty and chaos. The VSI provides for the creation of a digital "action painting" and presents opportunities for the user to see what is in the moment and to capture that instant of “seeing differently”. ”I am seeking freedom from technique through a process of free and unconscious interaction with a machine that can translate idea into form. I am not interested in illustrating my way of seeing but rather in facilitating access to a larger art idea and the possibility of seeing differently.” -- From the Wirescapes user manual. Vega was recently appointed to the Fine Arts faculty at the University of Colorado at Boulder and has accepted a fulltime teaching position with the university’s TAM (Technology, Arts and Media) program. He is best known for his work as Flash artist on FILMTEXT 2.0 (Mark Amerika) and The Sour Thunder (Keith+Mendi Obadike). John continues as advisor for the CU-Denver Digital Animation Center and is on the executive committee of the International Digital Arts Awards. Information about the gallery exhibition can be found at http://art.colorado.edu/eaea/ The HyperX exhibition can be found at: http://www.altx.com/hyperx/ WIRESCAPES 1.0 can be found at http://www.dancingimage.com/wirescapes/ For more information on this work or information on John Vega, go to http://www.dancingimage.com/"