The Gallery Art on a monitor is, well, art on a monitor. It's certainly not the original, but it's also certainly not art on paper. Those glowing, rare-earth pixels or tiny, pulsating LED diodes add a certain presence to works of art which you'll find in no other medium. We're not here to argue the right- or wrongness of digital reproduction. All we know is, eyes often like it. Some call it beautiful. For this first issue of Magellan's Log, we polled the staff for suggestions to fill a small exhibit, which you'll find below. Please note: 20th century works are notable by their absence. They're not here not because we so retro but because few famous 20th works are available in decent digital format. We have, where appropriate, added music. 1. Solstice.
(33K) *If you're interested in the early technological developments that eventually led to moving pictures, see Charl Lucassen's marvelous site. The Muybridge animations here are gif files which he has constructed based on Muybridge's sequential photographs and are used with his permission.
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