Gregory A McCullough ARTICUL CTION A C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t R e v i e w Special Issue slide film (-meant to be viewed with a loup). That original work was also the source for an oil painting on multiple surfaces, which later was the source for divergent digital works. (IE: Portrait in Blue) Each media re-framed the portrait and our perspective on the subject. So yes, certainly this translation between media speaks of new ways of knowing. We really appreciate the effective socio political criticism that elegantly pervades your artistic production, able to raise awareness to an evergrowing audience on the unbalanced incursion of Technology that affect our media driven society. Many contemporary artists, such as Thomas Hirschhorn and Michael Light, use to include socio- political criticism and sometimes even convey explicit messages in their artworks: how do you consider the role of artists in our unstable society? Gregory A McCullough:I think the artists role remains one of revealing how they/we know of the world. (Every way of knowing becoming a way of being) There were times when that role was to reveal a patrons view of the world. I feel today, that for us, it’s now more to elucidate how individual members of society see the world. As technology becomes every more pervasive, we need to make conscious how the usage of its tools have silently changed how we interact with the point. They started with some chalk studies of world. (Every way of being, becoming a my reflection in a granite bench. Later that way of knowing.) Artists by speaking to paper work was the source for another what is dear to themselves, allows the portrait done in scraffiti on an exposed 35mm audience to see other ways of knowing.