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Art Studio: Jen Zen.(Brief Article)

Computer Graphics World

| January 01, 2004 | Moltenbrey, Karen | COPYRIGHT 2004 PennWell Publishing Corp. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

When computer processing speeds improved to the point that artist Jen Grey could paint as fast with a mouse as she could with a brush, she quit mural painting and assumed the persona of her alter ego, Jen Zen, a cyber hyperrealist. "Why climb scaffolds when virtual space can be so much bigger?" she asks.

A professor of art at California State University Long Beach, Grey now creates unusual pieces of art by experimenting with atypical digital tools. A few years ago, she and fellow artis/collaborator Sheriann Ki Sun Burnham began beta-testing various offerings, including Steven Schkolne's Surface Drawing software, which enables artists to create 3D shapes through hand motions. As the hand moves through space, the trail of its motion is recorded by the computer as a stroke, which appears to float in mid-air, thanks to a head-tracked stereoscopic display environment. Using this ...

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