Digital art
Description
Digital art, or the digital arts, is artistic work that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentational process. It can also refer to computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960s, various names have been used to describe digital art, including computer art, electronic art, multimedia art, and new media art. Digital art includes pieces stored on physical media, such as with digital painting, as well as digital galleries on websites. Digital art also extends to the field of visual computing. Read more ↗
Key Artists
John Whitney
American animator and composer widely celebrated as one of the founding fathers of digital animation, developing computer motion-control graphics and releasing the landmark 1968 digital film 'Permutations'.
Harold Cohen
British-born digital art pioneer who spent over forty years developing 'AARON,' an autonomous artificial intelligence painting program capable of generating original artistic compositions.
Lynn Hershman Leeson
Pioneering feminist new media artist who created the first interactive laserdisc artwork ('Lorna' in 1983) and explored artificial intelligence, cyborg identity, and virtual reality.
Cory Arcangel
Post-conceptual digital artist famous for modifying and hacking obsolete video game cartridges and digital media, such as erasing all graphics except clouds from Super Mario Bros.
Scott Snibbe
Prominent interactive digital artist and researcher who created groundbreaking bodily-responsive floor and wall projections ('Boundary Functions', 'Deep Walls') and pioneering app art.
Christiane Paul
Leading curator of digital art at the Whitney Museum of American Art and author of the definitive book 'Digital Art' (2003), who championed the institutional conservation and exhibition of new media.
Famous Artworks
Fun Facts
In 1963, computer pioneer Ivan Sutherland invented 'Sketchpad' at MIT, the world's first interactive computer-graphics interface utilizing a light pen directly on a CRT screen, which laid the technological bedrock for all modern digital art software, CAD programs, and graphical user interfaces.
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Andy Warhol famously created early digital artworks in 1985 using a Commodore Amiga 1000 personal computer and MacPaint software to draw digitized portraits of Debbie Harry and a Campbell's soup can during a live Commodore press conference at Lincoln Center.
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