A Portage la Prairie artist was invited to write an article about digital art some months ago by Montreal-based arts magazine TicArtToc.

The magazine came out toward the end of last month, with Carmen Hathaway's "Digital Dilemma? Not" as the only English-language contribution in the issue, which focused exclusively on digital art.

She says TicArtToc learned about her through Nadine St-Louis, of Montreal's Ashukan Cultural Space, where some of her work is displayed.

Hathaway explains the article's title.

"'Digital Dilemma? Not' reflects my experience of the last 20-some years that I've been into digital art, of the medium not particularly being readily accepted, much as photography was not in its infancy. And even now, there's a bit a divide as far as is photography art, is digital art, art. Of course it is, it depends on the media, and what you're doing with it."

Hathaway stresses digital and traditional art techniques mesh well.

"I'm a great proponent of moving forward. All of the traditional art that I dedicated my attention to over some 20-odd years, those skills transfer seamlessly to digital art. Working with graphite, and acrylic paints, and oil paints, and sculpture, wood, and metal, and glass -- everything transfers."

TicArtToc's Hanieh Ziaei talks about what interested them in Hathaway's art.

"Her approach that she calls in her article, Digital Revolution, and I found that really interesting, actually, because she transformed this kind of digital revolution, and she touched with her own sensibility, and with her singularity, and subjectivity. So I think it's interesting how an artist could re-appropriate this kind of digital revolution."

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