Reading 7-25

In the begin of the reading Christiane Paul introduces the idea of digital art and the history behind it. He explains that digital art is art form that uses technology as a medium to convey a message of art to an audience. This is very radical compared to traditional mediums that most artist use as digital presents a more interactive feature that is rarely seen in traditional art. During the recap the history of digital art we see many style of art which has been displayed through our culture, one being the dadaist and Duchamp's reproduction of the Mona Lisa with a moustache and goatee. Another older piece that was done was The World in 24 Hours, in which artist exchanged multimedia art in 24 hours which the use of fax, computers, and videophones to send them across 3 different continents. I found this history of digital art to be interesting in the idea that the digital art has been taking place prior to the new technology boom in the late 90's and 2000's and that most of the art was rather more of a science than art.