Opinions differ when it comes to determining the founding event of digital art. However, they all share the same point of view: digital art is an evolution of the fine arts; it doesn’t stand apart! The idea behind this exhibition is to enable everyone to gain a better understanding of the world and the diversity of digital art. The term digital, «digit» referring to the finger or numbers depending on the language, defines this notion of counting, of algorithmic writing, but also of the immaterial dimension of the object. And yet, through this process of numbers or the use of digital networks, artists create a material, light in the form of a video, a photograph, a sculpture or a drawing. Some creators take Georges Seurat, Claude Monet or the Dadaism movement as their models; they talk about the importance of pointillism, the refraction of light or the hybridization of machines and humans. Others speak of kinetic art as genesis. These reflections question our relationship with new technologies, their insertion into our daily lives and the evolution of art in recent years. Thus, the exhibition «digit-All» brings together a dozen artists highlighting the diversity of digital art, an integral part of contemporary art whatever the tools used. It’s not here to please or displease, just to awaken our senses and nourish our minds. The artists in this exhibition offer a polyphony of voices transcending the limits of art and opening our minds to the future
Machines have always fascinated us and inspired many artists. Zaven Paré has been exploring the boundaries between technology and art throughout his long and successful career. In his works, he uses a wide array of media, drawing, collage and sculpture, as well as video and performance. In all his artistic creations, we can directly identify his signature, reflecting both the mechanical side of his artwork and whimsical human touch that technology may sometimes have, at least in our perception. The results are vulnerable and fragile artefacts that run against the tide of digital arts and poetically flirt with the idea of failure. The idea of device is clearly the common theme of this exhibition, and we will discover many different facets of them, sometimes more directly, sometimes less. While we see them right in front of us in drawings and objects that reveal their nature at second sight. Shown here for the first time in Tel Aviv, Zaven’s works are already gone by, leaving us with a strange impression of both déjà-vu and things-to-come, oscillating somewhere between a recent past and an already familiar future