Information
Technology
Hardware
IBM PC clone, Mac IIciSoftware
Cubicomp, Photoshop 2.5
Descriptions & Essays
Victor Acevedo 24-01-2022
Archival Digital Print, Sizes: 8”x10” and 13”x19” Epson Pigment inks on cotton rag substrate or Light Jet digital photo prints. (plus custom sizes or NFT by special order)
Date created: 1991
6.26-27.86 is named after the approximate date that Victor’s older brother David Acevedo passed away. The exact time not known. It was very late on the 26th or very early on the 27th of June 1986.? Version 2 of this image was printed in black and white on the cover of the YLEM newsletter, Vol. 14 No.8 August 1994. This was initially created with the PC-based Targa paint system (TIPS). The 3D geometry was rendered with the Cubicomp. Later parts of the image were modified on a Mac with Photoshop 2.5 – for instance the quasi-cubist deconstruction and re-assembly of the still life in the lower left corner.?
Victor: This was around the time that I switched over to the Mac. The young woman in the picture always reminded me of a blind-folded Mona-Lisa. It also referenced those funny old-fashion adult magazines that had tape over the people's eyes to hide their identity. Later versions of this woman were rendered in a kind of neo-cubist manner. One of the underlying metaphors that ran through many of my images from this period was the juxtaposition of neutral geometrical form (polyhedra) with interpretive subjective psychologies rendered with a vocabulary of neo-abstract expressionism by way of digital mark making. Come to think of it, apart from the digital aspect, this conceptual synthesis was already in play for me many years ago, when I was still working with oil paint and graphite.
- excerpted from Acevedo in Context, 40-year career survey 1977-2020 with contributing author Peter Frank and others. To be published in 2022 by Acevedomedia
Victor Acevedo: 6.26.27.86 v01, 24-01-2022, in: Archive of Digital Art Archival Digital Print, Sizes: 8”x10” and 13”x19” Epson Pigment inks on cotton rag substrate or Light Jet digital photo prints. (plus custom sizes or NFT by special order)
Date created: 1991
6.26-27.86 is named after the approximate date that Victor’s older brother David Acevedo passed away. The exact time not known. It was very late on the 26th or very early on the 27th of June 1986.? Version 2 of this image was printed in black and white on the cover of the YLEM newsletter, Vol. 14 No.8 August 1994. This was initially created with the PC-based Targa paint system (TIPS). The 3D geometry was rendered with the Cubicomp. Later parts of the image were modified on a Mac with Photoshop 2.5 – for instance the quasi-cubist deconstruction and re-assembly of the still life in the lower left corner.?
Victor: This was around the time that I switched over to the Mac. The young woman in the picture always reminded me of a blind-folded Mona-Lisa. It also referenced those funny old-fashion adult magazines that had tape over the people's eyes to hide their identity. Later versions of this woman were rendered in a kind of neo-cubist manner. One of the underlying metaphors that ran through many of my images from this period was the juxtaposition of neutral geometrical form (polyhedra) with interpretive subjective psychologies rendered with a vocabulary of neo-abstract expressionism by way of digital mark making. Come to think of it, apart from the digital aspect, this conceptual synthesis was already in play for me many years ago, when I was still working with oil paint and graphite.
- excerpted from Acevedo in Context, 40-year career survey 1977-2020 with contributing author Peter Frank and others. To be published in 2022 by Acevedomedia
Literature
Pfizer, Gary. »State of the Arts.« Computer Graphics World (March 1993).
Jacobson, Linda, ed. Cyberarts: Exploring Art & Technology. ISBN 0-87930-253-4 th ed.San Francisco, CA: Miller Freeman Inc. Book Division, 1992.
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