In writing, "revisionism" is defined as the retelling of a story with substantial alterations in character or environment, to "revise" the view shown in the original work. Tony Karp has created "artistic revisionism." Tony's work combines art and technology. What you see here is the result of a change in technology that allowed Tony to see his work differently and ultimately helped him to produce new works. But this time instead of applying the technology to a new set of images Tony went back to some existing work. And voila, artistic revisionism. The technique Tony uses is based on his focusing on a particular element of a given image.

Here's the analogy Tony likes to give to illustrate how technology blended with art allows for revisions that were not possible before. Rembrandt liked to make etchings. An etching is an image created in "stages," where the etching plate is reworked until the artist is happy with the result. When stage 3 is created, a print might be made to see what it would look like, but when stage 4 is created stage 3 is lost except for perhaps that test print. Artists who use technology have the ability to save their work at any point. They might make fifty versions of an image and decide to go back to version thirty and take the work down an entirely new path. Technology makes this all possible.

Like many professions or métiers in the world today, artists will use technology to enhance their work, to do things that were not possible before. As with any change, people will object because the change makes them uncomfortable. The blending of art and technology is still at an early stage. But history will show that Tony Karp and Techno-Impression were at the forefront of this movement.