Digital artist

Digital artists are artists who make digital art using computer graphics software, digital photography technology and computer assisted painting to create innovative art - or artists that incorporates digital technology in the final piece, process, or subject.

The innovation is not only in the technology, but in the collaborative aspects of their work. Digital media lends itself to sharing and augumenting by a creative effort similar to the open source movement, and the creative commons in which users can collaborate in a project to create unique pieces of art.

Controversy

Nicola Simpson argues that the validity of using a computer as a means for the creation of art has been criticized, with some arguing that computers can turn equations into ‘art' with a few clicks of the mouse and that it has become almost impossible to apply an objective criteria of quality to computer art because it is assumed to be essentially a homogenizing tool. [ [http://www.varsity.co.uk/archive/612.pdf Simpson, Nicola, "A digital Revolution" (large 7MB PDF file)] ] Simpson writes:

In lieu of the history of Dada, Fluxus, Conceptual art Electronic art and Information art, such views appear naive. [Christiane Paul Digital Art, pp. 8-15.]

ee also

* Conceptual art
* Animator
* Digital art
* Digital painting
* Internet art
* Model (computer games)
* New media
* New media art
* Information art
* Remix
* Software art
* Art software
* Computer art
* Internet art
* Electronic art
* Cyberarts
* Interactive film
* Fractal art
* Machinima
* Generative art
* Music visualization
* Algorithm art
* Computer art scene
* Computer graphics
* Computer music
* Digital illustration
* Evolutionary art
* Fractal art
* Generative art
* Interactive art
* New media art
* Multimedia
* Digital poetry
* Software art
* Electronic music
* Algorithmic art
* Video art
* Video poetry

References

Book and Web References

* Donald Kuspit [http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/kuspit/kuspit8-5-05.asp "The Matrix of Sensations"] "VI: Digital Artists and the New Creative Renaissance"
* Joline Blais and Jon Ippolito "The Edge of Art", Thames & Hudson Ltd
* Christiane Paul "Digital Art", Thames & Hudson Ltd
* Donald Kuspit "Del Atre Analogico al Arte Digital" in Arte Digital Y Videoarte, Kuspit, D. ed., Consorcio del Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid
* Robert C. Morgan "Digital Hybrids", "Art Press" volume #255
* Frank Popper "From Technological to Virtual Art", MIT Press
* Alan Liu "The Laws of Cool", Chicago Press
* Bruce Wands "Art of the Digital Age", London: Thames & Hudson
* Margot Lovejoy "Digital Currents: Art in the Electronic Age" Routledge 2004
* Frank Popper "Ecrire sur l'art : De l'art optique a l'art virtuel", L'Harmattan 2007
* Fred Forest "Art et Internet", Editions Cercle D'Art / Imaginaire Mode d'Emploi

Examples

External links

* [http://www.shannonhilson.com Shannon Hilson - Digital Artist Examples]
* [http://www.eyefetch.com/profile.aspx?user=mohny_karamad - MOHNY KARAMAD ]
* [http://www.luntzer.com HJ Luntzer - Digital Pixel Artist]