We live in the gap between yesterday and tomorrow. But we don't know it. We live in the space between hope and despair. But we don't face it. We are part human, part robot, part brilliant, part foolhardy. We are the great innovators. We are the tragic destroyers. We are the Quasi's.
About the Author: Corinne Whitaker, aka the Digital Giraffe, has been acclaimed for 35 years as a pioneer in digital imaging and digital sculpture. She has exhibited worldwide in over 340 exhibitions, including the solo "No Rules" at the Peninsula Art Museum in Burlingame, CA. and "CyberSphere" at Stanford University. Her work has been published in over 100 magazines, books, catalogs, media and newspapers. She presented the first digital fine art exhibit in India and has shown work in Thailand, Germany, England, Japan, Russia, France, China, Singapore, and Italy. She has shown at the Austin Museum of Digital Art and the Museum of Computer Art. She has lectured extensively on the radical new iconography of the computer, including "Look Ma. No Paintbrush!" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In 2007 Whitaker exhibited at Art Biennale in Florence, Italy. In 2010 she exhibited at United States Biennale in New York City. Eight of her digital sculptures are located in DAAP, the world's first virtual sculpture park online. In 2014 she was included in "Best of 2014" at ARC Gallery in Chicago. In 2015 she is one of the distinguished sculptors invited to participate in 2 International Conferences on 3D printing at Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas. Whitaker is one of the featured artists in the CD ROM and book, "Women Artists of the American West". Her work has won over 30 awards, including "Best in CyberArt" and two Golden Web Awards as well as an Artist's Fellowship Award from the City of Pasadena. She is featured in "Art of the Digital Age", as well as the DVD set "International Digital Sculpture, 2009". She is also the author of 20 books of digital paintings and poetry. (www.giraffe.com/gr_writing.html). Whitaker's award-winning Digital Giraffe online journal (www.giraffe.com) now in its 22nd year of web publication, has been visited by 180 nations. It presents a changing exhibit of digital sculpture and paintings along with critiques and articles, most of them archived online for the free use of scholars, curators, academics, critics and lovers of art. Whitaker has been actively involved in the art community. For ten years she ran the Digital Giraffe gallery in Carmel, California. She has been a Board Member of the Fellows of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles and the Carmel Gallery Alliance. She founded and curated the "Sculpture Withindoors" exhibit at the Carmel Art Festival. She is represented by the Paul Mahder Gallery in Healdsburg, CA.