Eileen Neff

Eileen is a professor here at Tyler in the painting department.  She came in and told us a bit about her evolution as an artist. In the beginning she was a painter, then she became a photographer. And now she is a photographer who paints in her colors and uses the computer to create simple modifications to her work.  Where as with new technology one can make an entirely new piece of artwork within the realms of that software, Eileen prefers to use a simpler function of the programs. She’ll do very very simple things like cutting and cropping and some color adjustments instead of intricate alterations. As a speaker she wasn’t extremely captivating but the topics she was discussing were interesting. Using technology to do the simplest things is usually overlooked for intricate and complicated pieces. Eileen showed us a bit of the simpler side of using new technology.