Monday, August 25, 2008

a new generation of digital artwork

Viewing digital artwork using computers has changed how we will experience artwork forever.  Using the program "yellowtail" one can see just how interactive this new generation of art can allow us to be.  The viewer now can be just as much an artist as the creators themselves.  There are no limits on mediums such as these because the content has no boundaries.  The creator of something such as "yellowtail"  only goes as far to set the stage for what the next artist (the viewer) can then create.  
This new experience is dramatically different than for instance a painting in a museum.  The obvious difference is this second generation of creativity that leads to dramatically different content than the first artist may have even aimed for.  This is something a painting can never achieve.  A painting is locked in its present form and only open to interpretation.  This digital art is open to interoperation, then open to transformation through the imagination of the viewer.  This leaves endless possibilities as the power of computers and the complexities of digital art work together.