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Digital Art

Digital art allows for limitless manipulation of images, filters, and colors within the frictionless space of computers, according to writer George Fifield. While some critics find computer-based art superficial, the document argues that the most dynamic digital artwork occurs when artists utilize new technologies, and technologies evolve to realize artists' visions. The document also explores how digital platforms continue to offer new possibilities for artistic exploration and expression, while noting that artists also sometimes face exploitation when asked to work without compensation.

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Digital Art

Digital art allows for limitless manipulation of images, filters, and colors within the frictionless space of computers, according to writer George Fifield. While some critics find computer-based art superficial, the document argues that the most dynamic digital artwork occurs when artists utilize new technologies, and technologies evolve to realize artists' visions. The document also explores how digital platforms continue to offer new possibilities for artistic exploration and expression, while noting that artists also sometimes face exploitation when asked to work without compensation.

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DIGITAL ART

EXPLORATION
EXPLOITATION
DIGITAL ART
Digital art is a mechanized medium
whose potential appears limitless

“The artist’s ability to effortlessly reposition and


combine images, filters, and colors, within the friction-
less and gravity for memory space of the computer,
endows them with an image-making freedom never
before imagined” --George Fifield, American writer and curator
Benjamin Walter
“AURA” is lost in reproduction.
DIGITAL ALTERED PHOTOGRAPHY

Artists were able to take primary source material


(a photograph) and manipulate it using the language
of the computer.
As in any technology-driven medium,
the most dynamic work occurs when the
technology catches up with the visions
of the artists, or, conversely , artists
catch up with technology. In painting
and sculpture, it is the concepts and
uses of materials that change in the art.
With technology-based art, the medium
itself radically changes when the
technology changes.
For some critics, computer-based art lacks
the depth of interest they associate with,
for example, abstract painting. They find it
boring, or like holography, too superficial
in its trickery.

Do you agree?
THE DIGITAL CINEMATIC

Cinema has become an art of video (not


Video Art) and as such, it is a digital art,
a new-media art.
ISAAC
JULIEN
COMPUTER ART

Cinema has become an art of video (not


Video Art) and as such, it is a digital art,
a new-media art.
“Art that uses digital technology as a tool for the
creational of traditional art objects like photography,
print, sculpture, or music - and art that employs these
technologies as it’s very own medium. Today “computer
art” strictly speaking, has little meaning since most
artist using digital technology, use computers. The
computer is most often the intermediary between artist
and the realization of the artist’s idea, rather than a
medium itself.” --Christian Paul, curator and media historian
Ben Laposky, 'Oscillon 40', 1952.
James Faure Walker, ‘Dark Filament’ (detail), 2007

Frieder Nake, ‘Hommage à Paul Klee 13/9/65


INTERACTIVE ART:
THE INTERNET
Interactivity, art that requires viewer participation
to be complete, has emerged as a new medium. The
immediate danger here is that such interaction can
degenerate into mere pastimes or diversion. A high-
tech event or game, while possible containing artful
components is not art as we have defined it here.
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INTERACTIVE ART:
INSTALLATION AND CINEMA
Beyond the clicking and surfing activities of the Web,
which are indeed, forms of interaction with comouter
technology, several contemporary artists have created
works, often on a large scale, that are participatory.
MARCEL
DUCHAMP

ROTARY
GLASS PLATES

viewers are
required to
stand one meter
away and move
from one side to
another.
VIRTUAL REALITY

A three-dimensional experience in which a user, with


the help of a head-mounted displays, data gloves,
or body suits, experiences a simulated world that
appears to respond to the user’s movements.
JEFFREY
SHAW

THE LEGIBLE
CITY
For some this has meant the death of art;
for others it has heralded vast beginnings.
Exploitation.

Artist working for free, and you’ll get


exposure.

For example, Doubleday wants you to


create a cover of a special promotional
edition. And that’s it – not only are you
expected to work for free, but there’s no
prize either.
Explorations.

Digital platform in making art have


many things to offer, there are so many
explorations every now and then on
how artists will be able to reach out and
showcase their art.

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