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Lesson 9 Digital Art

Digital art is artwork created using digital technology, such as computers and digital imaging software. It encompasses various forms including digitally manipulated photographs, 3D virtual sculptures, animations, and multimedia art incorporating video and technologies. One of the earliest examples of digital art was computer-generated drawings created by German artist Frieder Nake in 1965 using an algorithm to direct a computer. Digital photography involves using electronic devices like digital cameras and computers to capture, edit, and share digital photographs in various formats. A photograph can be considered a work of digital art based on the creative expression and manipulation of the artist, rather than the tools or equipment used.

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Lesson 9 Digital Art

Digital art is artwork created using digital technology, such as computers and digital imaging software. It encompasses various forms including digitally manipulated photographs, 3D virtual sculptures, animations, and multimedia art incorporating video and technologies. One of the earliest examples of digital art was computer-generated drawings created by German artist Frieder Nake in 1965 using an algorithm to direct a computer. Digital photography involves using electronic devices like digital cameras and computers to capture, edit, and share digital photographs in various formats. A photograph can be considered a work of digital art based on the creative expression and manipulation of the artist, rather than the tools or equipment used.

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Lesson 9

DIGITAL ART

WHAT IS DIGITAL ART?

Some artists use materials like paints and brushes to create art. Today, many others
also use modern means of exploring creativity, like video technology, television, and
computers. This type of art is called digital art.

Digital art

-Is work made with digital technology or presented on digital technology. This includes
images done completely on computer or hand-drawn images scanned into a computer
and finished using a software program like Adobe Illustrator. Digital art can also involve
animation and 3D virtual sculpture renderings as well as projects that combine several
technologies. Some digital art involves manipulation of video images.

-The term 'digital art' was first used in the 1980s in connection to an early computer
painting program. (This was long before they were called apps, mind you!) It's a method
of art-making that lends itself to a multimedia format because it can potentially be
viewed in many ways, including on TV and the Internet, on computers, and on multiple
social media platforms. In short, digital art is a sort of merger between art and
technology. It allows many new ways to make art.

Beginnings of Digital Art

-Digital art couldn't really exist without computers. Those machines so familiar to us
today got their start in the 1940s, when the first true computer, the Electronic Numerical
Integrator and Computer, or the ENIAC, was created for military purposes. Artists first
began exploring the possibilities of art from computers and related technologies in the
late 1950s and early 1960s.

Early experiments with computer art came around 1965. German artist Frieder Nake
(1938 - present), who also happened to be a mathematician, created a computer
algorithm that enabled the machine to draw a series of shapes to make artwork.
An algorithm, by the way, is a programmed list of instructions that tells a computer
what to do. The resulting computer-generated drawings were some of the earliest
examples of art done on a computer.

What Does Digital Photography Mean?

-Digital photography is the process of using electronic and computing appliances to


capture, create, edit and share digital images/photographs. It encompasses several
different technologies to provide electronic or computer-based photography services.

-It is mainly used as a means to create, publish or use digital photographs on computers
and/or the Internet.

Techopedia Explains Digital Photography

Typically, a digital photograph - the outcome of digital photography - is stored in a


bitmap (BMP) format. However, it can vary from device/technology and per user
requirements. It replaces standard photography's conventional microfilm with storage
cards or computer storage devices to store/access a captured/scanned/copied image.

Some electronic and computing technologies that enable or are part of digital
photography are:

 Electronic/digital cameras: These capture images/photographs and store them


in built-in/integrated storage media cards.
 Computing devices: Examples include a webcam integrated with a
computer/laptop or a scanner that enables the capturing of existing physical
(paper/card) images.
 Digital photography software: Purpose-built software enables the modification
of texture, color, brightness and many other image attributes.
WHEN DOES “PHOTOGRAPHY BECOME DIGITAL ART?

-Photography, like any other art form, becomes art at the hands of the artist and in the
eyes of the viewer. It doesn't matter if it's digital or analog. The type of camera or
equipment used will not make it Art. Art is the expression or application of human
creative skill and imagination, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their
beauty or emotional power.

-Nowadays, the photographic community tries to make the distinction between


manipulated and unmanipulated imagery, so as to define a line between "digital art" and
the digital artist, but the means, to the end, is just a tool. If one says a camera is a
recording device and thus records just what it sees, they clearly have no concept of
what it takes to make a camera and the programming behind the look each company is
using to differentiate themselves from the next.

-Digital art is still generally considered a photograph if it is based on a photo and still
uses mostly the imagery of the photo. It is not a documentary photograph, but that
distinction is mostly made for photo journalism rather than photography as a whole.

-Photography and digital art are not mutually exclusive media as your question
suggests. Photography as art is rather a form of digital art, but only one of many. In fact,
one of my majors in college was Electronic Media, Arts and Communications and it
covered a wide variety of topics including standard audio/video production as well as
some photography. It is entirely possible for a heavily modified photo to be a
photograph and not art. It is equally possible for a completely unmodified photo to be a
beautiful work of digital art.
Film

-Also called motion picture or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected in
rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon
known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous
movement.

-Film is a remarkably effective medium in conveying drama and especially in the


evocation of emotion. The art of motion pictures is exceedingly complex, requiring
contributions from nearly all the other arts as well as countless technical skills (for
example, in sound recording, photography, and optics). Emerging at the end of the 19th
century, this new art form became one of the most popular and influential media of the
20th century and beyond.

-As a commercial venture, offering fictional narratives to large audiences in theatres,


film was quickly recognized as perhaps the first truly mass form of entertainment.
Without losing its broad appeal, the medium also developed as a means of artistic
expression in such areas as acting, directing, screenwriting, cinematography, costume
and set design, and music.

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