Digital Art - World of Art

Publishers Weekly states that Christiane Paul does an impressive job of compressing the activity of a huge field, in which there are no obvious heroes and no single aesthetic line. Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art today, transforming traditional forms of art such as printing, painting, photography, and sculpture. Meanwhile, entirely new forms such as internet and software art, digital installation, and virtual reality have forever changed the way we define art. Christiane Paul surveys the developments in digital art from its appearance in the 1980s to the present day and looks ahead to what the future may hold. The book discusses the key artists and works in the genre, drawing a distinction between work that uses digital practices as tools to produce traditional forms and work that uses them to create new kinds of art. It explores the broader themes and questions raised by these artworks including viewer interaction, artificial life and intelligence, political and social activism, networks and telepresence, and issues surrounding the collection, presentation, and preservation of digital art. This third, expanded edition of the popular resource investigates key areas of digital art practice that have gained prominence in recent years, including interactive public installation, augmented and mixed reality, social networking, and file-sharing technologies. The book includes 338 illustrations, 270 of which are in color.

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