Assignment:

There has been a long tradition of landscape painting in American art. After the confusion of early colonization, American artists began to depict the incredible landscape around them in oil paintings. This tradition continues to this day, in some case still being one of the only things that some people define as art. This generation and the generation to come will also be faced with the subject of landscape, however, it might take on a different form. This new Landscape or digiscape exists solely inside the digital world, comprised of million upon millions of bits of data. Like "Real" landscape, within this metaphysical digiscape, everything is in a constant state of flux, with each person perceiving it from a different point of view. Unlike the "Real", the digiscape abides by a different set of rules, not constrained by the properties of the physical world. In this way, the digiscape is analogous to the dream world, constrained only by the limits of human imagination.

So, the question is, what does your digiscape look like? In this assignment use images that you find online, along with at least two images of your own, to create three virtual renderings of what the digiscape might look like. Experiment and alter the relationships between elements by changing their size, scale and transparency. Think of this as an opportunity to realize a personal and original vision of an electronic space, rather than a re-creation of something you have seen before, i.e., slick, geometric, computer graphic spaces or the psychedelic fractal-scapes of which we are already familiar. No unicorns, spaceships, dinosaurs, or eyeballs emanating rainbows EVER!. Experiment enough to create at least three variations of your idea