Being a visual artist often means isolation - working alone for long hours in a studio. Stephanie Slade, president of SLADE Graphics, a Los Angeles- based electronics design company, wants to change that.
Slade has recently founded the International Painting Interactive (IPI) project, which hangs global electronic canvases on the Net, allowing artists from many cities to work together on joint digital paintings. The additions of each artist appear on the screen of every other participant.
IPI was demonstrated at Chicago's SIGGRAPH '92, when a hundred painters, video artists, graphic designers, and musicians in fourteen cities around the world worked together for 44 hours, creating numerous digital paintings.
IPI allows visual artists to work synergistically with one another - an advantage that performance artists have always enjoyed. Slade explains that "visual artists, like musicians, can now jam together and express themselves in a collaborative spirit."
Slade, who won an Emmy for graphic design in 1986, (for the opening of the new Love American Style), is currently working with an organization called Knowledge Recovery Foundation International. She wants to generate another interactive project that will focus on indigenous cultures, to be presented in March 1994 at the first International Environmental Film Festival in New York City. "The digital drums," Slade says, "will be beating in the global village on those magical days." SLADE Graphics: +1 (310) 278 3710.
- David Jay Brown
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