Digital Art
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Goz personally experimented with digital art using a Macintosh Plus, Apple Laserwriter, and silkscreen printing and mounted an exhibit titled “Macintosh Verbum” at the Quel Fromage coffeehouse gallery in San Diego in 1985.
Apple Computer contacted him in response to an article in the San Diego Union-Tribune about the exhibit. In 1987 Apple bought and distributed 1,000 copies of Verbum’s inaugural issue 1.1 to the Apple Developer community. In 1987, Apple commissioned Goz to produce a digital art event for their engineers, which went on to become the touring Imagine Exhibit of Personal Computer Art, a traveling exhibition featuring a range of techniques from artists utilizing computers as tools of artistic expression. The exhibit was held in 1988 at the Boston Computer Museum and the Konica and Sogetsu Daikon Galleries in Tokyo in 1989.
In 1991, he opened and curated the Verbum Gallery of Digital Art in San Diego. Also that year, the Los Angeles Times described the Imagine Exhibit of Personal Computer Art as marking “the distinction between an earlier era of computer graphics and newer computer art” and quoted Goz on the show’s humanistic aesthetic:
Works on the Macintosh by Michael Gosney
Macintosh Verbum
A 1987 exhibit of original art prints produced on the Apple Macintosh by Michael Gosney.
Michael Gosney – San Diego Tribune article – Dec. 17, 1985
“We don’t want to just show off the tools, but to show off the content and creativity achieved with these tools. Computers are part of our lifestyle, like it or not. They’re everywhere. What we’re doing is celebrating the creative side of the medium. We’re carrying the flame for a really human touch to all of this.”
– Michael Gosney
