May 24, 2011

Got some good news when I got back to the studio yesterday and thought I would share.  
I had two prints (Theremin and Carlos)- images below -from my Electronic Music series accepted for the Digital Works national juried competition at LBIF (see info below).  Theremin is the print that won the Digital Arts Guild Award at the 51st International Exhibition at the Museum of the Living Artist of the San Diego Art Institute (4/16/11 thru 5/29/11).  
The juror, Dr. Christine Paul is a well-known figure in the world of digital art ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiane_Paul_%28curator%29 ). 
Dave
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Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences (LBIF), Loveladies, NJ
June 23 - July 19, 2011
Juror: Christiane Paul, Associate Professor & Director of Media Studies at the New School and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of Art - both in New York, NY.


Digital Works, a national juried competition, encourages participation by emerging and established artist and seeks to showcase contemporary works of art created through digital processes that reflect innovative use of media, technical excellence, and personal vision.

Juror Christiane Paul is the Director of the Media Studies Graduate Program and Associate Professor of Media Studies at the New School, NY, and Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has written extensively on new media arts and lectured internationally on art and technology. An expanded new edition of her book, Digital Art (Thames & Hudson, UK, 2003), was published in spring 2008 and her edited anthology, New Media in the White Cube and Beyond - Curatorial Models for Digital Art, was published by UC Press in December 2008. At the Whitney Museum, she curated the shows Profiling (2007) and Data Dynamics (2001); the net art selection for the 2002 Whitney Biennial; the online exhibition CODeDOC (2002) for artport, the Whiteny Museum's online portal to Internet art for which she is responsible; as well as Follow Through by Scott Paterson and Jennifer Crowe (2005).

Other recent curatorial work includes Feedforward - The Angel of History (co-curated with Steve Dietz; Laboral Center for Art and Industrial Creation, Gijon, Spain, Oct. 2009); INDAF Digital Art Festival (Incheon, Korea, Aug. 2009); and Scalable Relations (Beall Center for Art and Technology, Irvine, CA; as well as galleries at UCSD, UCLA and UCSB, 2008-09). 

Dr. Paul has previously taught in the MFA computer arts department at the School of Visual Arts in New York (1999-2008); the Digital+Media Department of the Rhode Island School of Design (2005-08); the San Francisco Art Institute and the Center of New Media at the University of California at Berkeley (2008).

Text from Digital Works exhibit prospectus and The New School website.

Dave Tilton, Halfway Creek Marsh, 2008, Pigment Ink on Canvas, 2/3, 80 1/2" x 55"

Biographical Statement

My passion for creating art took hold in my early teens when my drawing and mixed media work won
awards in national student-art competition. My creative interests shifted to photography during my
twenties and my photographs were sold nationally.

Travel, another passion, sparked an interest in the geological and cultural forces that shape our
landscapes and led to my formal studies in geography and cartography at the University of Wisconsin— Milwaukee. Through these studies, I was introduced to interactive media and information design—the foundation for my work on academic projects funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the U.S. Department of Education, and on commercial projects that received some of the highest awards in the industry such as a New Media Invision Award, PC Magazine’s Top Ten CD of the Year award and inclusion in Graphis I: A Compiliation of New Media Design (NY: Graphis Inc.).

Artist Statement

My images suggest memories and impressions, referring to lands encountered, but unencumbered by form and detail. They offer views on a world filled with suggestion, mood and sumptuous beauty.
The technique I developed to create my work is experimental and is modeled after sampling
techniques used in the creation and synthesis of sounds for electronic music composition. This
technique allows me to create complex digital works that employ a painterly aesthetic to evoke the
richness and subtlety of memory.

I print my work with my wife, Paula Oeler, at Carta StudioWorks, our studio in Madison, WI. Each
print is offered in very limited editions.

Dave Tilton