Saturday, January 20, 2007

The Story of Digital Art

Some Digital Theories Beyond The Growth Of Art
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Digital art has, more or less, been relegated to the lower echelons of contemporary art scene by the gurus.

Following-up on submissions of my digital art portfolio to galleries, the three primary reasons I discovered for rejections were:

1. The programs are created for commercial artists - "It's not real art."

2. Digital art/graphics artists don't have the skills of painters, etc.- "Anyone can create art on a computer."

3. Digital art is not tangible - "It is just temporary electronic images".

-by George Glasser


Art is a result of human creativity which has some perceived quality beyond its usefulness, usually on the basis of aesthetic value or emotional impact. the modern use of the word "art", which rose to prominence after 1750, even conceptual art could be loved without materials, once the photography have been invented in 1839, some writers wasted 150 years to deny it is a great art tool, since motion pictures unveiled in 1860..... Philosopher David Novitz has argued that disagreement about the definition of art, are rarely the heart of the problem, rather that “the passionate concerns and interests that humans vest in their social life” are “so much a part of all classificatory disputes about art” (Novitz, 1996). According to Novitz, classificatory disputes are more often disputes about our values and where we are trying to go with our society than they are about theory proper. For example, when the daily mail criticized Hirst's and Emin’s work by arguing "For 1,000 years art has been one of our great civilising forces. Today, pickled sheep and soiled beds threaten to make barbarians of us all" they are not advancing a definition or theory about art, but questioning the value of Hirst’s and Emin’s work.