Biography
Corinne Whitaker, aka Digital Giraffe, has been acclaimed for 45 years as one of the pioneering artists in the fields of digital imaging and digital sculpture. She has exhibited worldwide in over 80 solo and 260 group exhibitions, including a large solo exhibit entitled Corinne Whitaker: Digital Mindscapes at the Monterey Museum of Art, Corinne Whitaker dot Uncom at the San Bernardino County Museum, No Rules at the Peninsula Museum in Burlingame, CA., and CyberSphere at Stanford University. She presented the first digital fine art exhibition in India and has shown work in Thailand, Germany, England, Japan , Russia, France, China, Singapore, and Italy. She has shown at the Austin Museum of Digital Art and the Museum of Computer Art. She has lectured extensively on the radical new iconography offered by the computer, including Look Ma. No Paintbrush! in 1994 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2010 she exhibited her work at United States Biennale in New York City. In 2011 her solo show Mind Over Matter took place at Evolve the Gallery in Sacramento, California. Ten of her digital sculptures are located in DAAP, the worlds first virtual sculpture park online. In 2014 she was included in Best of 2014 at ARC Gallery in Chicago. In 2015 she was one of the distinguished sculptors invited to participate in an International Conference on 3D printing at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. In
2021 she was one of 20 international sculptors selected to participate in a digital sculpture exhibition at the Galerie Maitre Albert in Paris, juried by an international panel of experts from Europe, China, America, and the Pacific. At present, her solo exhibit :Corinne Whitaker: Digital Mindscapes is at the Monterey Museum of Art in California.
Whitaker is one of the featured artists in the CD ROM and book, Women Artists of the American West. Her work has won over 30 awards, including Best in CyberArt and two Golden Web Awards as well as an Artists Fellowship Award from the City of Pasadena. She is featured in Art of the Digital Age, as well as the DVD set International Digital Sculpture, 2009. She is also the author of 32 books of digital paintings and poetry. (www.giraffe.com/gr_hookedonbooks.html) and composer of music based on Artificial Intelligence (www.giraffe.com/gr_musicmadness.html). Whitakers award-winning Digital Giraffe online journal, (www.giraffe.com) now in its 29th year of web publication, has been visited by 219 nations. It presents a changing exhibit of digital sculpture, sculptural renderings, and paintings along with features, critiques and articles, most of them archived online for the free use of scho
2021 she was one of 20 international sculptors selected to participate in a digital sculpture exhibition at the Galerie Maitre Albert in Paris, juried by an international panel of experts from Europe, China, America, and the Pacific. At present, her solo exhibit :Corinne Whitaker: Digital Mindscapes is at the Monterey Museum of Art in California.
Whitaker is one of the featured artists in the CD ROM and book, Women Artists of the American West. Her work has won over 30 awards, including Best in CyberArt and two Golden Web Awards as well as an Artists Fellowship Award from the City of Pasadena. She is featured in Art of the Digital Age, as well as the DVD set International Digital Sculpture, 2009. She is also the author of 32 books of digital paintings and poetry. (www.giraffe.com/gr_hookedonbooks.html) and composer of music based on Artificial Intelligence (www.giraffe.com/gr_musicmadness.html). Whitakers award-winning Digital Giraffe online journal, (www.giraffe.com) now in its 29th year of web publication, has been visited by 219 nations. It presents a changing exhibit of digital sculpture, sculptural renderings, and paintings along with features, critiques and articles, most of them archived online for the free use of scho
Statement
"If we know anything, it is that the world, or our small portion of it, seems poised on the precipice of madness. Robin Coste Lewis put it this way: " The world sits on the edge of God's razor. And every day -every day - He shaves His fat face."
It is easy to despair, to wrap ourselves in a cloak of despondency. You can look at these images as bolts of insanity, the unreal and the real co-habiting in a universe gone berserk.
But we are not the first generation to shiver at what artists are telling us. In 1877, Alden Weir viewed Impressionism in Paris, and commented, "I never in my life saw more horrible things%E2%80%A6TThey do not observe drawing nor form, but give you an impression of what they call nature. It was worse than the Chamber of Horrors".
Think of today's art rather as a chamber of discoveries, filled with digital sketching, drawing, painting, sculpting, A.I. and other contemporary toys and tools. We are seduced by the magic of it all, and we pull visual rabbits out of fantasized hats to seduce you into that magical world as well.
Sometimes it is gloriously beautiful.
Sometimes it is confrontational, and so not-pretty.
But always it is designed to share a vision. I hope you will don your own magical hats and step into a tad of crazy, a smidgeon of outrageous.
Look hard, and you may see those feather canyons. You might even create some ice cream castles of your own.
Mine are chocolate chip. What are yours?
It is easy to despair, to wrap ourselves in a cloak of despondency. You can look at these images as bolts of insanity, the unreal and the real co-habiting in a universe gone berserk.
But we are not the first generation to shiver at what artists are telling us. In 1877, Alden Weir viewed Impressionism in Paris, and commented, "I never in my life saw more horrible things%E2%80%A6TThey do not observe drawing nor form, but give you an impression of what they call nature. It was worse than the Chamber of Horrors".
Think of today's art rather as a chamber of discoveries, filled with digital sketching, drawing, painting, sculpting, A.I. and other contemporary toys and tools. We are seduced by the magic of it all, and we pull visual rabbits out of fantasized hats to seduce you into that magical world as well.
Sometimes it is gloriously beautiful.
Sometimes it is confrontational, and so not-pretty.
But always it is designed to share a vision. I hope you will don your own magical hats and step into a tad of crazy, a smidgeon of outrageous.
Look hard, and you may see those feather canyons. You might even create some ice cream castles of your own.
Mine are chocolate chip. What are yours?
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