Mobile Digital Art

In the Beginning was a Drawing ... (Thoughts on Drawing and Binary Code)

David Stern New York, USA

Drawing, as much as it seems to be an action executed by hand/eye coordination and the hand’s trained ability to make delicate movements with a pen or brush, is, as Michelangelo Buonarroti pointed out some 450 years ago, really an activity which takes place in the brain. Nothing shows this more clearly than if one switches materials, or uses no materials at all, as in the case of electronic drawings, where all the drawing is done through binary coding, arranging pixels on a screen.

In a way this is the only technique to make a truly flat work of art, since these pixels are only arranged side by side and each drawing mark indicates a decision between ...