It's like this: Nicholas Negroponte head of MIT's Media Lab, declared in 1998 that the digital revolution was over. If that's the case, what's up with all this "digital" media around us? How is it shaping the way artists create work? The answer is, in surprising ways!

Polk Museum of Art decided it wanted to find out how artists in the state of Florida were taking advantage of technology, so it created a juried competition that was open to instructors and professors at Florida's public and private universities and colleges. They got the typical digital photography and films, but they also got paintings, prints, and (...get this!...) ceramics!

The show is called Digital Art in the Post-Digital Age: Works by Florida Faculty and it opens for viewing on Saturday, May 24. Don't worry, though. You don't have to rush over to see it THAT DAY. It'll be up through September 7.

Oh, and don't miss the reception on May 30. It's for this show and Karsh, Leonard, and Bagert: A Photographic Legacy. Herman Leonard and Jenny Bagert, two of the artists in that exhibition, will talk about their work at 6:00pm, and then the reception will begin at about 7. Stetson University's Mobile Performance Group will be doing their thing a couple of times before the whole thing ends at 8:30. $10 gets you in the door and it's a cash bar. I know I'll be there!