User talk:Dcurator

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Pioneer of Digital art

Hello! I reverted your statement that Yucef Merhi is a "pioneer of digital art", as it is plainly not true. Digital art began in the 1950s and 60s with the advent of commercially available computer technologies, and their use by artists. To be a pioneer in the field you have to, by definition, have been there at the beginning. Merhi was born in 1977, so it is impossible for him to have been there in the era of the pioneers. If you would like to see some articles on people who were actually pioneers in the field, check John Whitney (animator), who taught the first computer graphics class, and worked with IBM in the 1960s. See also Vera Molnar, who did computer-based works beginning in 1968 (9 years before Merhi was born). You could also read this article about her show at the Museum of Modern Art. And here's a Fireder Nake drawing done using a computer in 1965! So unless I am missing something, it's plainly wrong to say someone who was born about twenty years after these actual pioneers, and who was 20 years old in 1997, is a pioneer of computer-based art.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 07:04, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

Autobiographies: editing your own page

I noticed that the image you uploaded to Wikipedia commons here has the author metadata set to "Yucef Merhi". Please do not edit your own Wikipedia page. We have a policy on this called WP:COI. We strive to be a neutral source of information, and the subjects of an article are not neutral editors of their own article. You also might not be surprised to hear that we do not want the subjects of articles adding text that says they are a pioneer of something! Thanks. ThatMontrealIP (talk) 07:57, 14 February 2020 (UTC)