Session September 2021
Pigment to Pixel:
The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Antony Huen and Peter Trippi in conversation, moderated by Elina Cerla.
On Weds 1st September we had a key conversation for many makers about how painting and other artforms that exist in the realm of materiality and embodied experience fare in compressed digital spaces. Can both coexist? What is more real, the image or the object? What role do painters play in the digital age?
We looked at how there is a long history of painting existing beyond its own sphere, reproduced in print or through the words of writers, as well as within the small confines of Instagram on our mobile phones. To delve into how painting has been translated into different media in many ways, we were joined by Peter Trippi, who has extensive experience of seeing work on the printed page as Fine Art Connoisseur's Editor-in-Chief, and as a museum director and curator, and Antony Huen, researcher specialised in ekphrasis, the ways in which paintings and other works of art have existed for years through poems and other literary works, and who has a deep interest in this phenomena specifically in our digital age. We explored how these interactions create a complex and enriching feedback loop.
