Notes from My Digital Studio – Reflections on Art, Technology & Authorship

This blog is about exploring art, technology, and authorship, a space where I share commentary, responses, reflections, and my digital art practice.

My Studio

This is my introduction, as the first essays on this blog I am introducing myself and giving a sense of what to expect In two other essays: DeepSeek vs. ChatGPT: Lessons from Apple vs. PC I reflect on how current AI debates echo earlier technology rivalries, and in Why Computer Evolved Digital Compositions. I share the history and reasoning behind the terms I use for my work. Together, they are the starting point for this space, which I hope will continue to grow through new reflections and projects.

I am a New York-based artist whose digital journey began in the 1980s with curiosity rather than formal training. After buying my first computer, I eventually moved away from business applications into the early online world of AOL and the possibilities of digital image manipulation. By the early 1990s, as programs like Photoshop and Illustrator became accessible, I began experimenting with photography, painting, and mixed media as the foundation for digital transformation.

Today, I describe my work as Computer-Evolved Digital Compositions, or Computer Evolved Art, layered creations that merge my digital imagery with altered paintings, photography, and scanned elements. Earlier works often reappear in new forms, evolving across decades. AI sometimes enters my process, to the extent it is required for the task, as a catalyst shaped by my imagination and hand. My images, both abstract and figurative, often carry elements of surrealism, macabre undertones, and futuristic narratives.

In addition to visual art, I extend these explorations into writing. My recent coffee-table book, Obsession with Change: A Look at the Future from the Beginning, combines more than seventy cinematic images with short stories and fictional archives. Like my larger body of work, it aims to create experiences that feel both tactile and virtual, spaces where identity, memory, and imagined futures converge.

If you’re curious about how I see technology, art, and authorship shaping one another, I invite you to read the essays that follow. They are for me a beginning that will not end.