Here's a test for you. Read these two statements: "Life is not a scientific term" and "I don't want to be lost in a world of pure, indulgent imagination". An artist made one, a scientist the other: who do you think said what?
Some background might help solve the puzzle. One of the statements was made by Christian Kerrigan, the first digital artist in residence at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He is opening his V&A studio to the public this week to show the fruits of his six months' work there.
Kerrigan uses 3D design software to create what he calls "digital drawings", sometimes of imaginary living technology, sometimes of more abstract scenes whose scale might be galactic or microscopic. But these pictures, along with the objects, texts and video that Kerrigan makes, are not meant to be purely aesthetic. He sees his work as a visual language for the investigation of nature, technology, the relationship between them and mortality.
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