Artwork copyright Paul Berger. Photo courtesy of the artist.
GLOFLG4, 1992
Paul Berger
American (born 1948)
Location: Fort Stevens Elementary School, Yelm
About the Artwork
GLOFLG4 is part of artist Paul Berger’s body of digital prints. They are composed of layered digital figures and shapes, and they explore how we process information. They also show the evolution of our computer graphics technology. Berger notes, "A computer image is capable of nearly seamless collage.” In this artwork, Berger combines computer-generated icons and menu bars with images of graph paper. This shows the conflict between what he calls “competing informational vehicles.”
This artwork was acquired for the State Art Collection in partnership with Yelm Community Schools.
About the Artist
Paul Berger is a pioneer in exploring the artistic possibilities of digital imagery. He combines and manipulates imagery from a huge variety of sources to investigate the meaning of images and how we dissect them. Berger notes, "I am not so much interested in the single, isolated photo image as I am in the way that images group themselves together in ways that provide us with context and meaning. I am interested in responding to common image groupings such as the printed page, the television screen, the computer printout." He first included a computer in the making of his art in the early 1980s.Berger served as professor of art at the University of Washington for thirty-five years, co-founding the photography program in 1978. He earned a Bachelor of Arts (1970) from the University of California at Los Angeles and a Master of Fine Arts (1973) from the Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York.
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