WHAT IS KOKOON ARTS?

The Kokoon Arts Gallery continues the tradition started in 1911 by William Sommer and other Cleveland Graphic Arts Tradesmen then known as The Kokoon Arts Clubs to promote a more modernist approach to producing art. We will always revere and honor historic traditional media, but the evolution of artistic creativity is never ending and new possibilities are generated using electronic and digital media.

Kokoon Arts
1305 West 80th St,
Cleveland, OH 44102
216-832-8212
williamscheele@gmail.com
Kokoon Arts Gallery
Located within 78th Street Studios
COMPUTER GRAPHICS

At Kokoon Arts, computer graphics are mostly printed 2D digital images, although we will at times offer video or motion graphics work. Artists that we represent create unique digital images derived from photographs, stock images, algorithms, fractals, and various software programs.

The computer graphics revolution began seriously in the mid-fifties, while still in the analog electronic mode, rapidly morphing through constant changes into a purely digital environment.

To quote Lawrence Rinder, Curator of Contemporary Art at The Whitney in 2001… "Nothing since the invention of photography has had a greater impact on artistic practice than the emergence of digital technology. While photography revolutionized the arts by superseding painting's claim to represent the "real," digital technology has become the ultimate tool for capturing the nuances of the "unreal." In digital media, all information is reduced to binary code, creating a dynamic arena in which images and objects can be melded, morphed or made to disappear. Artists have taken advantage of their unprecedented control over sensation and information to produce works that challenge our everyday perceptions of color, form, sound, space and time. Imbued with unsettling emotional and psychological states, these works also reflect the pervasive sense of irreality that has come to suffuse our everyday lives in this dawning digital age."

Today computer graphics are a ubiquitous element in our everyday lives, from images on TV, in films, advertising, education, medicine, virtually any application you can think of…