Assigment #3- Second Reading Response

Using digital technology as an actual art medium create a higher level of participation and are more capable of customizing the art work for specific people and purposes. While it can be argued that all art work is interactive, a painting, for example, cannot physically change before your eyes. Also, as a piece of digital art, it can be customized to the user’s needs or preferences. As a creation, digital art can span many different kinds of form. One could use a computer’s music player’s Sound Waves and manipulate those into an actual piece of art. An example of a well-known type is Digital animation.  Some installations are influenced by the movements and decisions of the people walking through them; some are Time controlled.

As a tool, you can take a piece that you found on the internet, and then competely change the way a viewer sees it, depending on the actual change of the piece, or simply putting it into another context to create a different meaning. With digital techology, it is now possible to re-do, change, or create images. It can be used as a tool to do these things, or to simply make them out of nothing.

~ by SashaMarie on September 24, 2008.