Exploring Synthetic Possibilities of Virtual Space

ri Dotan uses computer code to create cultural code. U “Visual art has its own code,” Dotan explained, “and the beauty of this technology is that it has greatly expanded the code. It has added a lot of tools to work with-modeling, lighting, ray tracing, transparencywhich let us create much more complex expressions.” Dotan sees the computer as the only medium to convey his artistic vision. Electronic imagery, more than a “simply technological” phenomenon, is an art genre expressing contemporary cultural phenomena. In just the last decade or so, Dotan said, electronic space has become a highly productive medium of expression, “very appropriate to post-modern expression in particular-the creation of new ways of looking at the world from fragments of the old.” Anile C . Lear