[Simulacra to Simulation]

"A digital image does not represent an optical trace such as a photograph but provides a logical model of visual experience. In other words, it describes not the phenomenon of perception, but rather the physical laws that goven it, manifesting a sequence of numbers sotred in computer memory. Its structure is one of language: logical procedures or algorhithms through which data is orchestrated into visual form." [George Legrady] "Computers greatly accelerate the process of mathematical abstraction in the visual arts. Digital images simulate the real by mathematically modeling it rather than imitating it through a copying process. Simulations cannot be considered as "simulacra" or copies, for there is no point in regarding digital information models as simple fakes or reproductions. The can generate any kind of imagery or any kind of "reality." [Margot Lovejoy] "The computer represents the end of Renaissance space in art--the demise of Euclidean geometry...Digitization represents the new world order, the transition from simulacra to simulation, from copying to modeling... [Andrew Menard]