QUANTUM POP MEDIA ARTIST
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| Original Digital Art made on Cubicomp in 1986 with a grant from the French Ministry of Culture, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Nouvelles Images. ©Beau Tardy 1986-2024 |
Art is Media. Media is Art. I sample from everything. I am an Art Scientist.
Art is a flag a badge a medal a dress a coat of arms. Wear it proudly and stake your claim in the battle. Gather your troops and sound the trumpets of war. The culture war is here, which side are you on?
Post-Modernism is dead. Welcome to the Digital Age. Everything is up for grabs. Ownership of ideas is made obsolete by Insta-steal and Face-book’em. Nothing is real anymore. Everything is memory. It is a sampling culture; what Marshall McLuhan calls the ‘Instant Replay’. The artist is in the special effects business. By sampling every facet of the culture the artist brings about special effects that resonate. The audience then participates in the artistic process by re-sampling the art on their iphones and posting it to their ‘social media’ tribe. This way they signal to their peers that they are ‘part of the art’. They in fact are wearing the art. The audience wears the art and wears out the artist. Which is why artists need to wear armor to protect themselves the way witch doctors wear gris-gris.
‘Copyright’ is the new battleground. When everything is digitally copied who gets to say what’s right? Who owns what? Beware the cyber-barrons becoming the cyber-bullies. The ones who have everything own everything. Stop giving art away!
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| Tagged wall installation at Barrister's Gallery in New Orleans. Series of 12 panels of high resolution 5 color HP z-6100 thermal laminated and mounted digital prints. Digitally painted featuring actress Ashley Greene. ©2013 |
As a 360º artist my weapons are computers, painting, drawing, music, video, installations, happenings, writing and media. I need to avail myself of all the technology of media in order to be effective. Painting alone is not enough anymore. I publish comics, do graffiti art, play dj shows, make computer animation, produce video and write books.
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| Test Line for Lower Third. Photoshop digital art. ©2015 |
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| Heart of Fire. Photoshop. Digital print on canvas. ©2014 |
The National Endowment for the Arts defines a Media Artist as "utilizing a fundamental understanding of the mediums of analog and digital media to integrate digital technologies with traditional forms of artistic expression". Physics defines Quantum as the smallest measurable discrete amount of any physical property. Pop Art uses the modalities of Popular Culture and Mass Media. I am a Quantum Pop Media Artist who uses the modalities and technologies of Popular Culture and Mass Media in association with all other traditional art forms as Art Quanta.
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| Live Perfomance VJ/DJ. Axelrad Houston. Beau Tardy ©2022 |
Right after the congressional hearings on Facebook where Zuckerberg showed himself to be an Orwellian doublespeak agent, they changed the algorithm at Instagram. Immediately my android tablet crashed and I had to do a complete reset losing all my apps, photos, videos, music, etc. Additionally my posts on instagram went from getting 100+ likes to 7. That's right,SEVEN! At this point Facebook and Instagram have become mind control gulags. There is no rationale for my art being censored, throttled, downgraded, hidden or ghettoized. I reject them. The arbitrary whims of technocrats who posit themselves as cultural wranglers is not in conjunction with my world view insofar as my content and artistic production are not theirs to abuse as they please. THEY SHOULD BE PAYING FOR THE PRIVILEGE TO USE MY CONTENT. Unless and until there is a fair compensation system put in place for content producers and/ or a VERIFIABLE level playing field, my content will no longer be theirs to pilfer and profit from. From now on my content will be displayed the way I intend on a website that I control.
