ACEVEDO in Context

This is an analog and digital media art history book and artist monograph. Spanning the years 1977 through 2020, ACEVEDO in Context chronicles the development of digital artist Victor Acevedo’s multi-media work and addresses the milieu from which his work emerged; his key influences and the creative community that supported his work and art actions in the 1990s and beyond.

ACEVEDO in Context
Analog Media 1977-1987 • Digital Media 1983-2020
A 43-Year Illustrated career survey + artist biography
Published by Acevedomedia
400 pages / 596 images most in color

The book’s narrative is augmented with essays from four contributing authors, Peter Frank, Charlotte Frost, Thomas Miller, and Michael J. Masucci. The essays are presented along with quotations by the artist himself. The text also includes transcriptions from previously unpublished writings and interviews with art historian Patric Prince and scientist-crystallographer, Arthur L. Loeb.

1977-1987: Analog Art: traditional media, painting, drawing & film
1983-2007: Digital Art: archival ink jet and photo prints
2007 to present: Electronic Visual Music: Digital Video and Digital Prints

Victor Acevedo is an artist best known for his digital prints and videos. His current focus is producing electronic visual music works. His imagery has a metaphysical bent, expressed with geometrical abstraction, sometimes with figuration. His videos explore the perceptual implications of synesthesia and are influenced by sacred geometry as well as the geometry of R. Buckminster Fuller’s Synergetics. As an ongoing practice, Acevedo issues still images sourced from his video works, in the form of signed limited edition prints and sometimes as NFTs.

As detailed in the book, Victor Acevedo’s key early influences were Cézanne, Picasso, M.C. Escher, Salvador Dali, Fritjof Capra and Buckminster Fuller. A deep study of their work and ideas, led him to the genesis of his space-frame & polyhedral graphical metaphor. It is a kind of ‘geometrical Surrealism’ and it is quite evident in his early traditional media work. It has a metaphysical bent, juxtaposing figuration with non-objective form. This interplay of geometry and a contemporary Surrealism carries over into both his digital print and video work. His digital work could also be classified as 'Techspressionism'.

Acevedo is considered a desktop computer art pioneer as he was an early adopter of personal computer software to create fine art in the early 1980s. He has shown his work in over 135 group and solo art exhibitions in the U.S. and Internationally since 1982.

Considering the phenomenology of synesthesia and integrating real-time video-mix workflows into his audio-visual studio practice, Acevedo initially positioned himself inside the genre called Visual Music. He later coined the term Electronic Visual Music in 2013. This was to describe his motion graphic work more accurately in the digital domain. The arc of Acevedo’s career is noteworthy in that it begins in his student phase in 1977 with traditional (analog) media painting and drawing and then shifts, starting in 1983 over a 4-year period to exclusively digital media. From still images to video (electronic visual music) work.