Digital Art 7-25

The introduction to digital arts opened my eyes to the fact that the term digital arts, computer arts, multimedia, or new media art, whatever you would like to call it, is a vast and expansive title for many different forms of art. As with many things computers were first thought of to aid the military, yet things slowly evolved. We began to think of this technoligy to aid artwork or just be the artwork itself. 

I think that laszlo Moholy-Nagy's Kinetic Sculpture Moving c 1933 is beautiful, even if a

 photograph. This new technology was much more than art soley produced by computers such as the artwork produced by John Witney and others. 

Technoligy could be used to give instruction to create works of art such as in Charles Csuri's Hummingbird 1967. It has beautiful line, and an engaging composition and theory. 

With all of this new technology came the idea to connect many people, weather for the goverment though file and text sharing, or weather it was Davis in Kassel Germany who got together a satilete telecast that connected 25 countries with many different performances!

Digital arts also connects people in many other ways. People from many different fields such as artists, programmers, engineirs, and designers all work together to create and invent. 

The debate over where and how to view digital art, should it be viewed in a gallery or should it remain on the internet, is a moot piont for me. We have something with enormous potential to expand and explore many facets of life, we should concentrate on that.