Aristotle compared the work of art to a living organism and likened artistic production to biological reproduction.
Tag: DIGITAL ART
The Vitality of Digital Creation
The recent emergence and rapid growth of computer technology has transformed “digital image” from a confounding oxymoron to a ubiquitous sine qua non.
Refiguring Culture
The longstanding Platonic dichotomy between ideas and images is being challenged as digital media supersede analog ones and computers take an active role in managing the spectacle.
Camera Fantasia
A new technology has been born which disinherents photography from its legacy of truth and severs its umbilical cord from the body of past reality.
Medium or Tool?
Actually, the computer is neither when used in the creative process.
Transparent Technology
Digital technology will become increasingly transparent as we develop the interrelationships between mimesis and mathematics first heralded by electronic computers.
Digital Dilemmas
Digital images are both abstract and concrete. They cannot be understood outside the context of the complete interactive system in which they occur.
The Wizard of Ethereal Pictures and Virtual Places
Postmodern algorithms for picture-making are more evanescent than their Renaissance counterparts because computers process information conceptually instead of physically.
Anniversary Annal
We give the numbers of time an arbitrary importance in our lives. The year is a natural unit of time, but why should 10 of them be more significant than 11 or 12?
Watch Yourself
Watch Yourself lets you interact with and become part of masterpieces of art history, creating a “post-card” of yourself within a famous artwork.