The Saptakam-Project of Digital Artfields
by
Hans-Georg Türstig, Ph.D.
Digital
Art comes alive! Saptakam is a Sanskrit word and denotes a group of
seven. In this ongoing project, a group of seven artists creates what I call a digital
artfield for a particular digital or digitalized photo or work of art. A
digital image (A) forms the basis, and artist 1 creates two digital pictures
from it (B and C) and sends them to two artists of her/his choice: 2 and 3. (As
a general guideline, each artist may select artists from other countries.) They
each create two pictures (D,E and F,G) based on that picture and send them to
two artists of their choice: 4,5 and 6,7. (The Saptakam is now complete
and may be named.) Each of those artists (4-7) creates two digital versions
(H-O) of this picture which brings the number of pictures to 14 – the digital
artfield of the original image. All artists will display the digital
original and all 14 images derived from it on their website.
Digital Artfield for Image A:
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The
creation of the next digital artfield begins with artist 2, who sends two
versions of an original to artist 3 and 4, and so on. Artist 1 takes the place
of artist 7. When each artist has been #1, one creative cycle of this particular
Saptakam is complete with 98 pictures and 7 originals, i.e. 105 images.
Of course, each image always remains property of its artist. The Saptakam,
i.e. all seven artists collectively, “owns” each digital artfield.
There
can be many creative cycles of each Saptakam if the participants decide
to continue, and there can be countless Saptakams. Each Saptakam
could maintain its own website with links to each member of the Saptakam
and to other Saptakams and show its various digtial artfields.
Thus a network of digital artfields is created that spreads around the
world, vibrant with creative energy, uniting artists from various cultural and
religious backgrounds. Saptakams and digital artfields thus
contribute to an understanding and appreciation amongst the people of this
planet we all call our home.
Finally,
each digital artfield can be printed and send as an exhibition around the
world. There could be at least one exhibition per year, as it may take a year to
create 7 artfields, the product of one creative cycle of a Saptakam: 105
pictures, each measuring e.g. 8 ½ x 11 inches or DIN A 4.
Lets
play !!!
Hans-Georg
Türstig,
www.digital-artwork.net
©
July 2002