Sara Ludy’s performance at the Public Functionary.

“Sara Ludy has a way with creating a highly distilled atmosphere with images of spaces that slip memory and the virtual into the form of a hendiadys, each reforming the other endlessly.”

–Quote by artist and curator Ajay Kurian’s

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“If the digital means anything for visual art, it is the need to take stock of this orientation and to question art’s most treasured assumptions.”

Claire Bishop, “Digital Divide” (2012)

Art critics, academics, philosophers, and researchers have called attention to the increasing impact of the Digital on the production of art for years now. CUNY professor and art critic Bishop argues that up until 2012, she had not observed a significant shift from the analogue to the digital with regards to artistic production but, in fact, the opposite, a focus and celebration of the archive: 16 mm films, old photographs etc. Only a few exceptions successfully emerged in the otherwise digitalphobic art world (Ryan Trecartin i.e.). She urges contemporary artists to acknowledge the possibilities of the Digital and warns that “at its most utopian, the digital revolution opens up a new dematerialized, deauthored, and unmarketable reality of collective culture; at its worst, it signals the impending obsolescence of visual art itself.”