1st Edition

Digital Art, Aesthetic Creation The Birth of a Medium

By Paul Crowther Copyright 2019
206 Pages 76 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 76 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 76 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Is art created with computers really art? This book answers ‘yes.’ Computers can generate visual art with unique aesthetic effects based on innovations in computer technology and a Postmodern naturalization of technology wherein technology becomes something we live in as well as use. The present study establishes these claims by looking at digital art’s historical emergence from the 1960s to the... Read more
A Methodological Prologue Introduction: The Possibility of Digital Art  1. Machine-Being: Desmond Paul Henry’s Computer Art  2. The Emergence of Digital Art  3. Digital Plasticity and Its Objects  4. Echoes of Nature, Enhanced Realities: The Rise of Digital Figuration  5. Computer-Assisted 6. Interactivities

Biography

Paul Crowther is Professor of Philosophy at Alma Mater Europaea – Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis in Slovenia.