Digital Art

Everyone has their own interpretation of digital art. I see it as a very loose term, sometimes as a broad definition and sometimes as a specific subject matter.
I like to think of myself as an aspiring digital artist, though depending on the interpretation of the subject, the criteria may be far beyond me.
As time has gone on, artists have been inspired by and affected by technology as it, in turn, has developed. New media artists utilize technology as it becomes available and use it to create artwork which could not have been conceived by traditional means.
A very useful book which was recommended to me is plainly called "digital art", written by Christiane Paul, it covers many aspects which new digital technology has unveiled. This page contains usefull information from the book: link

I, like others, consider digital art to be a product of, or next stage of new media art. But I do not feel that I am entitled to an opinion as to what the term should mean. I like to think like this since most new age technology is based on a digital medium, and the possibilities of achievement with such a medium, especially when something as loose as art and expression are to be combined with it, seem to be unlimited.
Expression can tap into a massive range of themes and subjects, to incorporate a digital technology as a medium or partial aspect of this expression allows the final output be almost anything, to branch out and create an extremely diverse community. A community of digital artists where the only boundaries are not just technological skills and knowlede, but much much more importantly, creativity and imagination.

Id like to share some video's that I consider to be the work of great digital artists that have affected my art on a personal and inspirational level:

Created by: Alex Rutterford - this video synchronizes exactly to the audio (autechre)
Heres an interview with the artist explaining how he made it



This music video was created by 1st Ave Machine, I briefly talked about their compositing techniques in one of my earlier posts . The video is for a track by Chris Clark, one of my favorite electronic music producers.



This is a music video for another track by Clark, this time directed by Lynn Fox, an amazing artist. Go to the site: www.lynnfox.co.uk


This is an unofficial music video for another track by Autechre, I havent been able to find out about the artist.




I will be updating my list of favorite videos on a regular basis, you can check them out here.

Recently I have been increasingly interested in innovators of digital art and lesser known artists experimenting and exploiting new technology and older analog technology, I am not very familiar with most, but a very interesting video caught my attention recently which I felt i should post here: