30" x 46"
Acrylic on canvas 2023
www.gregorymccullough.art
Gregory A McCullough is based in the Great Lakes watershed of Canada. McCullough's art bridges the digital and classical visual art divides. Seeking gems "found in translation", his art re-embodies the visual vocabulary of one medium within another. He seeks to express art as a way of knowing (embodying the visual vocabulary we see the world through) which can then reveal our paradigms of knowing, even those subsumed from technologies usage.
Trained classically in Industrial Design and Fine Arts (Humber and Concordia University) he juxtaposes this with his training in Digital Animation (Icarus) and decades of creating 3D synthetic environments for Air Traffic Controller and Pilot training simulators (Adacel and CAE). His art celebrates a retelling of the - "this is how we know of the world now."
THE STORY:
McLuhan explored how it isn't so much the content that is the message, but how the medium itself massages and molds the user into being different. The key take away, being that how we use a technology, changes us. Every way of being becomes a way of knowing. Derek King in turn, highlights how in the technology of reading and literature, that it isn't so much what we contemplate, but that the technology of book usage requires us to open ourselves to hear other voices, and that is the moral massage that betters us.
Storytelling is rooted in the corollary of story-listening, and that is the real purpose of art. That we pause and listen, whether we come to agree or not with the stories told. The way we approach art via its mediums technology, is how we are actually bettered by art. It is our approach to immersing ourselves in art that holds it value.
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