Feb. 9, 2005 Contact: L. Zeck, 216-421-7403

Prominent Artists Examine the Effect of Digital Technologies on
Photography, Painting and Sculpture at The Cleveland Institute of Art

CLEVELAND - Digital technologies are blurring the boundaries between
artistic disciplines and creating new art forms and modes of
expression. Six prominent artists will discuss how new and traditional
methods of artmaking enlighten one another at a symposium at The
Cleveland Institute of Art on Wednesday, February 23 from 7:00 to 9:00
p.m. in the Institute's Aitken Auditorium.

"Photography, Painting and Sculpture: Working Digitally" will focus on
how artists have integrated digital technologies into their work and how
the new works they create often retain the identities of traditional art
rather than new media.

Panelists will include James Welling (photography); Fabian Marcaccio
(painting and installation); Joseph Nechvatal (painting and theory);
Michael Rees (sculpture and animation); Patrick Lichty (curator, editor
and media artist) and Shirley Kaneda (painter and writer). Each uses
digital technologies to extend and supplement what might be considered
traditional art forms and approaches.

Speakers will address how working digitally has changed their approach
and the opportunities that digital media offers. "We hope to debunk the
notion that digital media is dissolving the differences or the
particular concerns of photography, painting and sculpture," said Saul
Ostrow, Dean of Visual Art & Technologies at the Institute.

The event is free and open to the public. Aitken Auditorium is located at
the Institute's Gund Building at 11141 East Blvd. in University
Circle. For more information, visit www.cia.edu or call 216-421-7421.

Speakers Bios:

Shirley Kaneda has an extensive exhibition record that includes solo
exhibits at Feigen Contemporary, NYC, and Centre d'art d'Ivry-su-Seine,
France. Her group exhibitions include "Surface Tension," Chelsea Art
Museum, NYC, and "New Economy-Painting," Acme, Los Angeles. She was
awarded the Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 1999.
Patrick Lichty is a designer, artist, writer and independent curator.
He works in diverse media, including printmaking, kinetics, video and
generative music. Lichty has been a curator of whitneybiennial.com and
has also been involved with the Venice Bienniale and the International
Symposium on the Electronic Arts.
While Fabian Marcaccio has exhibited his work throughout the U.S., many
of his larger exhibitions have been displayed in Europe, including
Documenta 11 and exhibitions in Cologne and Stuttgart. His large
outdoor paintings included a project on a Belgian beach that addressed
topics ranging from abstract painting to politics.
Joseph Nechvatal's work consists of a mixture of drawing, digital
photography, painting, written language and external computer code. His
work is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum and
has been exhibited widely in Europe and the U.S.
Michael Rees's work spans the full spectrum of sculptural practice,
often incorporating performance, animation, video, installation,
sculptural objects and computer software programs. He has shown at the
Whitney museum twice and has exhibited widely throughout the U. S.,
Germany, Turkey and Spain.
James Welling's work is known to push the boundaries of the photographic
medium. His work is recognized and exhibited internationally and is
represented in many public collections including the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York and Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany.