Art Muse 2.0

Techno-Impressionism spans both the 20th and 21st centuries. That is partly due to the fact that Tony Karp is a living artist. He often says he won't be famous until he dies, just like Van Gogh.

This is an image that was made in the 20th century starting with a film camera. Tony used a scanner that reads strip of film or a slide. Tony was standing on the Staten Island ferry.

Here's a description of the various blogs we're using to enhance the experience of the visitors to the Techno-Impressionist Museum.

• Techno-Impressionist Journal
We know a famous blogger and he influenced our decision to start blogging. But instead of a blog Tony created a journal where he published a picture everyday throughout 2006. Many of the entries also have words.
• Art and the Zen of Design
The best way to start to describe Tony's art is to say it is the blending of art and technology. The technology is driven by design. In other words technology by itself is not usable until it becomes part of the design for a system, product, or in this case as an enabler of Techno-Impressionism. Tony has been designing things since he was a teenager. One of this first was a Geiger counter. He sold the design to Popular Mechanics and wrote the article. So writing about design is something he has done for many, many years. He covers many different subjects but they always are based on some current technology that he is using to create his art.
• Art Muse 2.0
This is my blog. It started out as just a way for me to learn how to blog. I have been all over the map in terms of my musings but with each post I have explained the image you look at and explained how it relates to Tony's art and to Techno-Impressionism. The muse's blog is evolving into a marketing tool. It will clarify our ideas, and influence how we enable visitors to the museums to buy the art on display at the Techno-Impressionist Museum
• Techno-Impressionist Museum Annex
When Tony build the Techno-Impressionist Museum back in the late 90s it was one of the first museums on the web. It is listed as a museum along with some of the big boys like the Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and MOMA (Museum of Modern Art). Tony first created galleries that held his earliest artistic endeavors and wrote about art using his imaginary artists
• Vincent van Gui
• Pablo PigCasso
• Henri de Toulouse LaTech
The galleries evolved into exhibits on display at the on-line museum and shows in the physical world. Now when Tony has a show in the physical world, we create the catalog on-line which allows people anywhere in the world to see the exhibit. We using the blogging software Tony designed and wrote to generate the catalog.
This is another example of the blending of art and technology. In this instance the technology is allowing us the make the art available worldwide, but we have total control of the content. That means both the words and exactly where the image appears, their size and placement on the screen. Next time you look at art on the web notice how small the images are.
The first two of these catalogs are from the exhibits we have mounted in the Haymarket Town Hall and at the local BB&T branch in Haymarket.
TheTechno-Impressionist Museum Annex is not part the main museum but an annex. It is like the annex of the Whitney that you find on Wall Street in New York and in Stanford, Connecticut.

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It's not just the art that is different, it's different kind of a museum and in the end a way of making art available to the world. We are giving it our best shot. It is an interesting way to spend your energy and to make a difference by creating something new. Our hope and dream is that it will stand the test of time. Perhaps our granddaughter Carina who we love very much will be like Theo's wife was to Van Gogh. She helped make him famous after both he and his brother Theo died.