DIGITAL ART - WORLD OF ART

DIGITAL ART - WORD OF ART

Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce and experience art. Not only have traditional forms of art such as printing, painting, photography and sculpture been transformed by digital techniques and media, but entirely new forms such as net art, software art, digital installations and virtual reality have emerged as recognized artistic practices, collected by major museums, institutions and private collectors the world over.

Christiane Paul surveys the developments in digital art from its appearance in the 1980s up to the present day, and looks ahead to what the future may hold. Drawing a distinction between work that uses digital technology as a tool to produce traditional forms and work that uses it as a medium to create new types of art, she dicusses the key artists and works.

The book explores themes raised and addressed by the art, such as viewer interaction, artificial life and intelligence, political and social activism, networks and telepresence, as well as issues such as the collection, presentation and preservation of digital art.

"Appropriation, remixing, and the cloning of websites are frequently used by artists to make a ‘political’ statement by challenging control over information and intellectual property"… now read on in the extract on Tactical Media, Activism and Hacktivism.

Christiane Paul is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the director of Intelligent Agent – a service organization and information resource dedicated to digital art – and a lecturer in the Computer Arts department at the School of Visual Arts, New York.

A constantly growing series that for
almost 50 years has been the market leader in popularly priced, original art books.
An essential part of any collection for the book buyer with an interest in the visual arts and cultural history, over 140 titles range from Aboriginal Art to New Media in Late 20th-Century Art. . .

‘Thames & Hudson’s World of Art is not only well established but world famous for its collection of low-priced but high quality discussions of specific topics in art’ – Contemporary Review