{"id":4206,"date":"2017-06-01T00:06:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T00:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.niio.com\/wordpress\/?p=2192"},"modified":"2022-05-31T14:33:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-31T14:33:41","slug":"digital-art-a-glossary-of-terms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/digital-art-a-glossary-of-terms\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Art >>A Glossary of Terms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When talking about digital art (art created with technology that&#8217;s often intended to be viewed or experienced on screens or projectors), inevitably people use a myriad of different terms. In order to help clarify, &nbsp;we&#8217;ve pulled together a glossary&nbsp;of terms.<\/p>\n<p><b>Digital art<\/b> is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as an essential part of the creative or presentation process.&nbsp;Today&nbsp;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">digital art itself is placed under the larger umbrella term <strong>new media art.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>New media art<\/b> refers to artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, video games, computer robotics and 3D printing that can enable the digital production and distribution of art.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Video art<\/b> is an art form which relies on moving pictures in a visual and audio medium. Video art came into existence during the late 1960s and early 1970s as new consumer video technology became available outside corporate broadcasting. Video art can take many forms: recordings that are broadcast; installations viewed in galleries or museums; works streamed online, distributed as video tapes, or DVDs; and performances which may incorporate one or more television sets, video monitors, and projections, displaying \u2018live\u2019 or recorded images and sounds.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2230 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/440px-Electronic_Superhighway_by_Nam_June_Paik1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"440px-Electronic_Superhighway_by_Nam_June_Paik\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><b>Internet art<\/b> (often referred to as <b>net art<\/b>) is a term used to describe a process of making digital artwork made on and distributed by the Internet. This form of art has circumvented the traditional dominance of the gallery and museum system, delivering aesthetic experiences via the Internet. In many cases, the viewer is drawn into some kind of interaction with the work of art.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2149\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2149 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/olialian-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"olialian\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blingee by Olia Lialina (artist) and Mike Tyka (Co-Founder of the Google Artist and Machine Intelligence Program) for Rhizome&#8217;s Seven on Seven &#8217;17.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Software art<\/b> is a work of art where the creation of software, or concepts from software, play an important role; for example software applications which were created by artists and which were intended as artworks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"field field-name-field-standfirst field-type-text-long field-label-hidden format-text-default\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden format-text-default\"><\/div>\n<p><b>Generative art<\/b> refers to art that in whole or in part has been created with the use of an autonomous system. An autonomous system in this context is generally one that is non-human and can independently determine features of an artwork that would otherwise require decisions made directly by the artist.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Algorithmic art<\/strong>, also known as computer-generated art, is a subset of generative art (generated by an autonomous system) and is related to systems art (influenced by systems theory). &nbsp;For a work of art to be considered algorithmic art, its creation must include a process based on an algorithm devised by the artist. Here, an algorithm is simply a detailed recipe for the design and possibly execution of an artwork, which may include computer code, functions, expressions, or other input which ultimately determines the form the art will take.<sup id=\"cite_ref-UCSB_2-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2233\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2233\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2233 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_5159-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2233\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Algorithmic art. Custom generated wallapaper by Siebren Versteeg @bitforms gallery, nyc<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Video game art<\/b> is a specialized form of computer art employing video games as the artistic medium. Video game art often involves the use of patched or modified video games or the repurposing of existing games or game structures, however it relies on a broader range of artistic techniques and outcomes than artistic modification and it may also include painting, sculpture, appropriation, in-game intervention and performance, sampling, etc.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2229\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2229\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2229 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/p1090636-e1437621714456-300x209.jpg\" alt=\"p1090636-e1437621714456\" width=\"300\" height=\"209\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2229\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Mario Clouds by Corey Arcangel as seen at the Whitney<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Glitch art<\/b> is the practice of using digital or analog errors for aesthetic purposes by either corrupting digital data or physically manipulating electronic devices. &nbsp;In a technical sense, a glitch is the unexpected result of a malfunction, especially occurring in software, video games, images, videos, audio, and other digital artefacts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2231\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2231\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2231 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/440px-Glitch_Art-226x300.jpg\" alt=\"440px-Glitch_Art\" width=\"226\" height=\"300\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2231\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Example of glitch art, by Rosa Menkman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Fractal art<\/b> is a form of algorithmic art created by calculating fractal objects and representing the calculation results as still images, animations, and media. Fractal art developed from the mid-1980s onwards. It is a genre of computer art&nbsp;and digital art which are part of new media art. The mathematical beauty of fractals lies at the intersection of generative art and computer art. They combine to produce a type of abstract art.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2232\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2232\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2232 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"images\" width=\"246\" height=\"179\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2232\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fractal art.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><b>Computer art<\/b> is any art in which computers play a role in production or display of the artwork. Such art can be an image, sound, animation, video, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, video game, website, algorithm, performance or gallery installation.<\/p>\n<p><b>Multi-media art<\/b>&nbsp;uses a combination of different content &nbsp;forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content.&nbsp;Multimedia can be recorded and played, displayed, interacted with or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of a live performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A research article exploring the different possibilities and terms of digital art and new media art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":4631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[129,128,130,64,125,126,131,31,61,127,65],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Digital Art &gt;&gt;A Glossary of Terms - 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