LOCATION in the Virtual Sculpture Park (DAAP)
BIOGRAPHIE et COMMENTAIRES DE L'ARTISTE
Biographie / Biography
Corinne Whitaker, aka the Digital Giraffe, has been acclaimed for over twenty years as one of the pioneering artists in the field of digital imaging, and more recently in the new field of digital sculpture. She has exhibited
both nationally and internationally in over 80 solo and 200 group exhibitions, including a large solo exhibit entitled “Corinne Whitaker dot Uncom” at the San Bernardino County Museum. Her work has been published in over 80 magazines, books, catalogs, media and newspapers, including the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. She presented the first digital fine art exhibition in India and has shown work in Thailand, Germany, England, Japan and China. She has also been interviewed on live simulcast on London TV and the Internet. She has lectured extensively on the radical new vocabulary offered by the computer to artists, including “Look Ma. No Paintbrush!” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Whitaker is one of the featured artists in the CD ROM and book, “Women Artists of the American West”, and was the keynote speaker at the California Art Educators’ Association Conference. Whitaker’s work has won over 30 awards, including “Best in CyberArt” and two Golden Web Awards as well as an Artist’s Fellowship Award from the City of Pasadena.
Whitaker’s award-winning Digital Giraffe online journal (www.giraffe.com), now in its eleventh year of continuous web publication, receives just under one million hits annually and has been visited by 150 nations. It presents a changing exhibit of digital sculpture, sculptural renderings, and paintings along with features, critiques and articles.
Whitaker has been actively involved in the art community. For ten years she ran the Digital Giraffe gallery in Carmel, California. She has been a Board Member of the Fellows of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Carmel Gallery Alliance. She founded and curated the “Sculpture Withindoors” exhibit at the Carmel Art Festival.
Whitaker was born in Stamford, Connecticut in 1934 and now lives and works in Palo Alto, California.
Commentaire / Statement
These digital sculptures reflect the new view of being human that the computer has brought us. Take a good look at what we are becoming, as the new digital language reinvents the human form. We may not know where technology is taking us, but we do know that a new artistic vocabulary is required to express what’s happening. The paintbrush will not die; the camera will not disappear. But our world is changing irrevocably and our art needs to reflect that.
Do we really understand what is happening? Software will not give the answers; hardware offers no clue. We will have to learn to see all over again. And then, if you are like me, you will be hooked on the digital world, at least, as W. H. Auden told us, until the ocean is folded and hung up to dry.