Digital Art by Christiane Paul - Ch. 1

The use of digital technologies in almost every aspect of daily life has been increasing due to its rapid development. The same situation is occurring to artists’ choice of tools. The artists have been working in different forms of media such as painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, music, and video. Now, the use of digital technologies allows the artists to expand their tools of creation and aspects of their arts. They can rely on the new technology which reflects on its language and aesthetics, or they can combine analogue and digital works to form a new meaning.

The new technologies are used to produce both printed images and three-dimensional sculptures. For making images, the artists can create entire paintings with these new technologies or use photographs or existing images and change them to create whole new pieces. Such includes Charles Cohen’s 12b and Andie 04 which the class went over for the first project, Absence/Presence. Some sculptors make use of the new technologies both in the initial design process and in the output of the physical objects, others create sculptures that exist only exclusively in the virtual realm and can take the form of a CAD model or digital animation.