Positively-Pixilated

Exhibition Brochure - Outside / Inside - Please click on the thumbnails above to view larger images

This all digital media exhibition is made possible by a grant from the Carol Anika Mihalik Foundation

It is also partially sponsored by a grant from the Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County.

from a more traditional painting approach, through digital photography collage, historic photo restoration,

animation, robotics, covert art, digital storytelling, new digital music, video, claymation movies and beyond!

Each artist will be available on specified days during the exhibition in the Gallery to demonstrate how they

create their unique art using a computer and a variety of software and associated hardware.

You will get some "hand-on" experience; you can ask questions, and enjoy the exhibit itself.

	Demo Dates	Demo Title / Software
Brenda Berg	Thursday, July 31^st	WALL●E to FAM●LE: Fun digital animations to livelier family movies with Brenda Berg. Amateur digital movie making demonstration using Video Blender, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere and DVD authoring.
Christopher Cohn	Opening Reception with The Stochastics Demos TBD	Music - using Randomization to break the “Curse of Dimensionality”
Jess Damsen	Fri. - Aug 1 Wed. - Aug 6	"New Media & Art: How the Next Generation of Artists are Changing Everything", a stimulating visual/aural tour of the works, technologies, trends and resources that are shaping the future of art.
Linda A. Levy	Sat. -July 26 Sun. – July 27	“Basics of Digital Painting & More!” with Corel Painter
Fred Mindlin	Sat. – Aug. 2 Wed. – Aug. 20	“A Morph is Not a Mashup” Norkross Morph X, iMovie 6, PhotoBooth, and QuickTime Pro.
Lisa Robinson	Sun. - Aug. 3 Sun. Aug. 10	Repairing – Restoring – Archiving Historic Photos Adobe Photoshop
Guy Siratt	Wed July 30 Wed August 13	Photo Composting- the process of digitally integrating image fragments through color & texture from a variety of photos resulting in a "Photo Composite"
Tana Brinnand Tolson	Thurs. – Aug.. 7 Thurs. – Aug. 14	"Illustrator Brush Magic" "Illustrator Effects and Filters" `Adobe Illustrator`
Mary Weeks	Sat. - Aug. 9th Fri. - Aug. 15th	“My Inkjet Printer Is My Printing Press" Demo 1 =digital negatives Demo 2 = Iayering different media

All the Digital Artists at the Opening Reception!

(L - R) Lisa Robinson, Brenda Berg, Tana Brinnand-Tolson, Gury Siratt,

Linda Levy, Jess Damsen, Mary Weeks, Chris Cohn, Fred Mindlin

Guy Siratt

Examples 1, 2, 3 and 4

Created with Adobe Photoshop & enlarged through Genuine Fractals.

Website Link - Artist Statement (PDF)

Christopher Cohn

Stochastico - The Stochastics

Digital Music

using Randomization to break the

"Curse of Dimensionality"

Christopher Cohn & The Stochastics performing during the Opening Reception.

Linda A. Levy

Digital Painting using Corel Painter

Website Link - Artist Statement (PDF)

Tana Brinnand Tolson

"Life at the Edge" - "Only Heart" - "Zayante Creek"

Digital painting using Adobe Illustrator

Website Link - Artist Statement (PDF)

Fred Mindlin

"A Morph is NOT a Mashup"

Animation - Morphing

Website Link 1 - Website Link 2 - Artist Statement (PDF)

Covert Painting in Process

Brenda Berg

Digital Animations - Movie Making

Website Link 1

WALL●E to FAM●LE Movie Making Workshop:

Saturday, August 16^th, 10:00AM-3:00 PM.

WALL●E to FAM●LE Movie Making Workshop: An introduction to amateur (yes, even you can make movies!) movie making from fun stop motion animation to creating livelier family movies with Brenda & Ted Berg.

Ages: junior high through adult

Members: $100.

Non-Members: $120.

Materials: $15.

10:00-11:00 AM: Animating with puppets, drawings, stills and stop motion

11:00 –12:00 PM: Sound—recording, importing, ripping, manipulating

12:00-12:30 PM: Break for lunch (bring a lunch or buy lunch at the BL Market’s Deli)

12:30-2:00 PM: VHS to digital, DV to computer, transitions, titles, stills and special effects

2:00-3:00 PM: Post-Production editing, DVD authoring and burning