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"Luminous Art & Design :: Art & Artists"
Digital Art :: Biography and Books"
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Digital Art is art created by computer. It has recently become very popular due to the availability of computers and software. The media is using Digital Art in many different fields, but it is still not gaining a similar acceptance as traditional ar
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Digital Art is art that has been created with the use of a computer. It could be purely generated by a computer, but also a piece of art taken from another source and modified by computer. Popular examples of digital art are photographs and music. The software to manipulate videos, sounds and photos are numerous and very popular. Examples of popular art software are Photoshop, Sketchbook, 3ds Max, Flash Player and Winamp.
Digital Art lives already for many decennia, but has only recently become very popular due to the widespread availability of computers, software and digital cameras. Electronic music has already been made for over thirty years and is worldwide accepted. And digital photography and printing is now also acceptable as an art. Especially as the possibilities and quality of the output advances. The media is using digital art for the different fields of digital art; digital illustration, photography, imaging, special effects in movies, video game design or fractal art.
As a more serious form of art, Digital Art is still not gaining a similar acceptance as traditional art work as paintings, drawings and sculptures. The reasons for this are the fact that the art work is called ‘computer-generated’, which implies that the artist didn’t make the piece. The question is then whether Art is defined by restricting the ways the piece came to be. Also you can produce the piece of art endlessly, for example by making numerous print outs. And this gives the feeling of mass production rather than being unique. Some artists are trying to overcome this argument by making a single print out and deleting the files.
By digitalizing art new elements can be created in the more traditional forms of art and new forms of art develop. For example, sculpturing could change due to rapid prototyping by three-dimensional computer-designed models. Or an artist may combine traditional painting with algorithm art. A growing number of traditional artists find that computers are great tools. Moreover, a PC and a good printer are much more affordable than oils, an easel and canvases. And digital works of art do not age, as traditional pieces of art do when subjected for example to UV light. Digital pieces of art are files and they retain their initial form (except when deleted of course).
Ben Laposky (1914 – 2000), a mathematician and artist from Iowa, was one of the earliest computer art innovators. In 1950, he made the first graphic images generated by an electronic machine. Charles A. Csuri is also an artist and computer graphics pioneer. In 1965 he began to create computer animated films. An artist of the most recent period is Kerry John Andrews, mostly working with digital and musical/sound. He has exhibited continuously since 1983 in Britain, Europe and the USA.
Galleries and institutions that regularly show Digital Art are the Digital Art Museum in Berlin, Ars Electronica Center in Austria, Sonic Acts in the Netherlands and New York Digital Salon and Guggenheim Virtual Projects in USA. And of course there are many digital galleries to visit on the World Wide Web.
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