Re: [-empyre-] Is it digital art?

[geniwate <geniwate@ozemail.com.au>]

Hi,

had this conversation in uk recently ... the exchange went something like:

- if the artwork doesn't somehow respond to the medium then it's not truly
digital work.
- therefore something that is just a narrative, with images, is 'bad'
digital art (for example).
- what would digital art that is purely responding to the medium look like?
- perhaps nothing at all: perhaps no concession to the (human) user would be
made; there would be no GUI or sensual ramifications, only some code doing
invisible things at the level of cpu cycles....
- and so digital art swallows itself ...

cheers, geniwate

on 27/7/02 2:47 PM, Damien Everett at damien.everett@rmit.edu.au wrote:

> hi all, sorry I've been off list for a while due to having 2 weeks to
> wrap up my masters@rmit and getting over a tragic hard-drive crash (in
> the literal sense). There have been a lot of interesting threads that
> I'll have to catch up on soon once I've submitted my work ;)
> 
> <2k cents>
> In answer to this question, personally I take a pragmatic approach, if
> it exists in a digital environment then it could be called digital
> art... like if this mosaic existed as a dynamic, interactive piece
> accessable online (like with the VRMuse software system I've been
> developing ;), even perhaps as virtual reality "mobile" I would call it
> such, otherwise it would be a traditional art  form (photography)
> generated with digital technology...
> </2k cents>
> 
> warm regards,
> damien
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