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Digital Art or should we say Art created digitally...

Here's an exerpt from an essay JD Jarvis wrote on his website already some time ago http://www.dunkingbirdproductions.com/pages/article

In my opinion this is very important/interesting:

Future:

The term “Digital Art” is a double-edged sword. On one hand it suggests something new and different in the world of Fine Art. On the other hand, it focuses too much on the tools and gives rise to those issues that some have with those tools. For example we don’t call it Oil Art or Marble and Hammer Art, nor do we use the term Photo-Art or Etching Art. For all these endeavors we say “Art”, then follow it up with the form, “painting”, “sculpture”, “printing”. Nor does “Digital Art” describe a particular style or look. In fact, today, music is digital. All sorts of design from clothing to cars is digital. Most writers use word processors. All of these are some form of “Art”. So, what is “Digital Art”? As we see on the web there is no single style of “Digital Art” that can describe what that term means, but there is definitely and most strongly visual Art that is created digitally.

In fact, as an artist, I long for the day when someone will look at my work and see Art not “Digital Art”. On that day, the arrogance and ignorance that holds so many critics and galleries in check concerning the acceptance of art created digitally will have fallen by the way side. By that time, enough people will have had direct experience with the digital tools to realize that without the artist’s direct manipulation and aesthetic judgment a computer does nothing. On that day, the old-guard will have once again succumb to the overwhelming wave of increased creative bandwidth and new materials and processes will have become integrated into a world of art made richer and deeper by their presence. Once this period of discovery and adjustment has been surmounted Digital Art (or should we say "art created digitally") will have a run that will surpass any and all previous art movements.

If I were to guess as to how future art critics might describe this period in the development of digital media and the effect it will have on the world of Fine Art, I might venture to say; "The turn of the new century was a heady and revolutionary period in the development of Art that saw, through the introduction of digital tools, a great democratization in art making and began a period of time wherein the cracks in the dam of the traditional Fine Arts world began to show."

Pass the dynamite.

JD Jarvis August 2001