He took me back to a laboratory-type room, advising me to keep very still resting my hands on my chin. With a plastic wand and clicking device, he lightly traced every angle of my face. In five minutes, I was transformed into a work of art.It’s not an innovative face lift; it’s high-tech, 3-D art through the use of computers.Neil McDonald, a specialist in art and technology, found his calling after watching “Fast Forward,” an 80s TV show, at 12 years old. The show used half of the technology available at the time to create its computer graphics. Today, McDonald uses Silicon Graphics computers to create his art. “Neil was very inquisitive as a child. Neil was interested in computers even before they were popular,” said Barbara McDonald, Neil’s mother. “In grade school in Amarillo, Texas, we had to request a professor from the university to teach him computer science.” Although McDonald said his work falls under the period after post modernism, he said he cannot categorize it.”It’s too early to know what I am doing,” he said.In partial fulfillment of his master of fine arts degree, McDonald is showing his works in the Hopkins Hall Gallery through May 8.”The Masters of Fine Art’s Exhibition is a requirement along with a written thesis,” said Prudence Gill, curator of the exhibition. “Neil has been using the hot-off-the press approach, producing to the last second.”McDonald’s work features prints, including a computerized collage of five popular games.At his exhibition, there is a mixture of media forms: TV monitors displaying his moving graphics, a slide projection display and large prints of his laser printed works.McDonald said he combines his love for poetry with his art. His other works include a human silhouette composed of a small writing of William Blake’s “Proverbs of Hell.”He said he chose “Proverbs of Hell” for his piece because the writing means to him that there is an amazing amount of detail everywhere around you, much like the piece itself.McDonald also has 3-D computerized works including one featuring the human body composed of tiny circles and an elderly woman’s hand.”I prefer using people because people can easily interpret my work in several ways,” McDonald said.McDonald has spent two years working 60 to 90 hours a week in the remote west campus Advanced Computing Center for Arts and Design. This will be his second masters degree, the first one being in computer science from OSU in 1994.McDonald will hold an informal gallery talkon Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in the Hopkins Hall Gallery, 128 N. Oval Mall.”I am willing to talk about whatever people want to hear, except sports,” McDonald said with a smile.