Center for Digital Art

Center for Digital Art Since its founding, CDA has offered film courses to high school students in the Brattleboro area in collaboration with the Windham Regional Career Center.

The Center for Digital Art (CDA) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1996 with the mission to provide educational resources in film and digital art and video in the Brattleboro area. Currently, CDA offers two courses to high school students. Additionally, CDA also offers workshops in digital art and media art to artists and art teachers.

Here are two stillframes (front and side views) of a recent motionpainting titled "Absence". This work, created to memo...
04/18/2026

Here are two stillframes (front and side views) of a recent motionpainting titled "Absence". This work, created to memorialize Renee Good, a woman murdered by ICE agents on the streets of Minneapolis, Minnesota on January 7, 2026, incorporates digital media and 'real' elements (in this case, chair, oils, acrylic canvas, etc.). M.o.s., 2026.
To see the motionpainting, go to my website michelmoyse.com and select 'Composited Examples' in top menu.

07/25/2024

ABOUT MOTIONPAINTINGS

‘Motionpainting’ is a word I use to describe much of the work I’ve been doing over the last three decades: by it I simply mean artwork that incorporates duration yet remains rooted in ‘stillness’. In spite of the fact that these works are time based, they are not narrative in content or form. As in traditional painting, they have no beginning or end and are meant for continuous viewing. The new province of this art may in fact be duration without development – or, put another way, aspects of ‘now’ in duration.

TOWARD A CONTEMPORARY PALETTE

The computer is an authoritarian tool – it gives you a framework that invites freedom, then locks you in with zeros and ones (Picasso once remarked that he had no interest in computers because they only give you answers). It also distances you from ‘materiality’ and significant sense interaction (although this is changing). Be that as it may and ignorant of where this activity would lead, over the years I found the recombinant powers of the computer on any given task or work or project more and more intriguing. I began to wonder, could a ‘work of art’ not ‘move’ and still be distinct from film or animation? What did the ability to use ‘layers’ offer? Could they act as ‘echoes of memory’? I slowly started to feel my way toward the ‘motionpaintings’ I’ve been doing for the last thirty years - work that includes traditional practices yet incorporates digital media anchored in concerns, expectations, and goals that we know as ‘painting’.

STUDIO OPENINGOn August 25, 2024 (5 pm to 7 pm), there will be an official public opening to my artwork/studio on Pleasa...
07/23/2024

STUDIO OPENING
On August 25, 2024 (5 pm to 7 pm), there will be an official public opening to my artwork/studio on Pleasant Valley Road in West Brattleboro, Vermont. Everyone welcome. In the meantime, the studio will be open by appointment or chance during the Marlboro Music School season every Saturday from 10 am to 3 pm and Sunday from 10 am to 1 pm. To make an appointment, call/text 802 258-8081 or email [email protected]. Or just stop by during those days/times.

01/08/2024

ISABELLE CIRCONFLEXE & CRAB APPLE FOR MADAME PERRETIER motionpaintings meant for large scale projection and continuous viewing. M.o.s., 2023-2024.

11/22/2023

Please read Bernie Sanders' Op Ed in today's NYTimes on the Israel/Palestinian conflict. He offers practical and humane steps to end this war.

11/13/2023

MALAKOFF TK3 facsimile installation continues my explorations of art in motion with three projections (one on each wall, another as floor projection), an oil painting on clear acrylic (hung from the ceiling), and a black & white drawing on the wall. All elements are ready for assemblage and require a computer with appropriate software. M.o.s., 2023

Center for Digital Art will be offering classes/workshops in 'motionpaintings' in the artist's studio this coming summer in Brattleboro, Vermont (2024). For information and early enrollment, please email [email protected].

3 iterations of Red Cross (with Meme Perretier) motionpainting. Note that the work can be seen in more or less broad d...
07/08/2023

3 iterations of Red Cross (with Meme Perretier) motionpainting. Note that the work can be seen in more or less broad daylight, and 'materiality' is enhanced thru the use of oil paints 'supered' on the projection. 2023.

03/30/2023

SEE:SAW is meant for large screen projection and continuous viewing. This motionpainting continues my explorations of 'materiality' & 'participation' (in this instance, with viewers in the gallery or museum). Created with a combination of stillfframe artwork done in traditional manner plus ArtRage software and video recording, the projection needs to be fed by a computer with Millumin and Max patch. For more information, contact the artist.

03/11/2023

This motionpainting continues my explorations of 'materiality', 'participation', and an expanded 'frame' that includes wall, floor, and several projections. It is made for large screen projection(s) and continuous viewing. Although it is non-narrative in content, it contains it's own history in 'duration'. M.o.s., 2023

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81 Pleasant Valley Road
Brattleboro, VT
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