Announcing an Artist's Talk by painter and writer

James Faure Walker

Wednesday, April 6
4:00 - 5:00pm
LIST Room 225

A Song for Upper Street, 2005

Faure Walker has been a pioneer in bridging the gap between traditional and digital art worlds. He is a well known critic - founder and editor of the prestigious ArtScribe journal in the 1970s -- and a classically trained painter. His writings on computer art have widely published, in venues from WIRED to Tate catalogs, and he has shown his work internationally.

He is currently completing a book about his experiences of participating in both new media and the traditional art world, entitled Painting the Digital River, (to be published in 2005 by Addison-Wesley).

Faure Walker is a Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at Kingston University, UK In 2002 he won a major Arts and Humanities Research Board fellowship for research into painting and the digital

 

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