“Art is a Computer Angel” is one of 52 posts in a
postdigital blogart project created by artists Mel and Miriam Alexenberg to
celebrate their 52nd year of marriage. During each of the 52 weeks of their
52nd year, they posted six photographs reflecting their life together with a tweet
text that relates the weekly Bible reading from a Torah scroll in synagogues
worldwide.
See how Mel and Miriam linked this Torah portion to their
life with photographs and tweets at http://bibleblogyourlife.blogspot.co.il/2014/01/genesis-7-art-is-computer-angel.html
.
The concepts in this portion are developed in Mel
Alexenberg's new book Photograph God: Creating a Spiritual Blog of Your Life
http://photographgod.com that he
wrote as a sequel for the general reader to his book The Future of Art in a
Postdigital Age http://future-of-art.com.
It explores the vibrant interface between selfies, social media, and
spirituality.
(Photo from AT&T Annual Report shows the artist
Mel Alexenberg sending a computer angel on circumglobal flight from AT&T
building in New York)
ART IS A COMPUTER ANGEL (on the 7th portion of
Genesis)
He [Jacob] had a vision in a dream. A ladder was
standing on the ground and its top reached up toward heaven; and behold! Divine
angels were ascending and descending on it. (Genesis 28:12)
We enjoyed sitting together in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art print room holding Rembrandt's drawings and etchings of angels in our
hands.
Mel painted on subway posters and screen printed
digitized Rembrandt angels and spiritual messages from underground:
Divine angels ascend and descend. (Genesis 28:12)
"They start by going up and afterwards go down" (Rashi) "Have
you seen angels ascending from the NYC subways? (Alexenberg)
Art is a computer angel.
The biblical term for art (MeLekHeT MakHSheVeT) is feminine. The masculine form is computer angel (MaLakH
MakHSheV).
The biblical words for angel and food are written with
the same four letters to tell us that angels are spiritual messages arising
from everyday life.
We chose an image of an ascending angel to digitize and
send on a circumglobal flight on 4 October 1989, Rembrandt's 320th memorial
day.
We sent it via satellite from the AT&T building in NY
to Amsterdam to Jerusalem to Tokyo to Los Angeles, returning to NY the same
afternoon.
The cyberangel not only circled our planet, it flew into
tomorrow and back into yesterday, arriving in Tokyo on 5 Oct. and LA on 4 Oct.
In Tokyo, the 28 faxed sheets were assembled in Ueno Park
and then rearranged as a ribbon ascending the steps of a Shinto chapel.
As we assembled the cyberangel on its return to NY five
hours after it had left, TV news sent it into ten million American homes.
The AP story of our angel flight appeared in 60
newspapers each with a different headline.
AT&T featured it in its Annual Report.
For the full story and more images, see “artworks” at http://www.melalexenberg.com.
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