Digital Impressionism

Digital Impressions The nature of pictures has everything to do with technology. This is as true for hand prints on the walls of Lascaux as it is for a child's fingerpainting or hi-tech computerized animations. Unlike singing, which uses innate tools and an invisible medium, people need external tools and visible media to make pictures. As new tools and techniques emerge, artists quickly start playing with them. The effect is often profound. The first mosaics, …

…one of the world's greatest photographic archives in a n effort to create a vast digital picture bank and to explore its possibilities. All the elements - image computers, a vast collection of dazzling oand inspiring pictures, and a diverse set of interests and energies in digital imaging - were in the air. In 1995, in a mid April late night flash, Rob began writing software to make mosaics out of the photographs. Photomosaics were born.