Art moves toward digital technology.

Everything, Everywhere, WPA, © 2023

by Anna Monroe

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“When I helped her frame those images and hang them up, I could not stop looking at them,” Nadia Colchado, a graphic design major, said. “I found them outstanding. I’m a surreal artist so my brain just went wild.”

“We were looking into the early history of computers and Ada Lovelace popped up. Many attribute her to not only writing the first algorithm but also with predicting AI,” West said. “Her mother told her to go and study math and science, but her father was a poet, so she has this understanding of imagination and poetry. She referred to that as poetic science.”

“It is a unique visual language that evolves constantly. It still surprises me, and I’m sitting at 5,000 generated images,” Penland said. “Organic, easy, satisfying.”

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Originally published in The Ranger, October 12, pg 3

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