FLM&MDA 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Digital Art, Computer
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Pedestrian sound helped to describe a narrative played in manhattan. If giants were looking down at us, we would look like midgets on a paved road. Traditional public art was paintings, murals, vietnam war memorial. Digital art is physical engagement within an art form. Public art that has a context and place in our world. Doesn"t matter if its good art or bad art. If an artist or community says its art, then its art. Adds the idea that the means of expression is digital media or digital communication. Work in analog world in one way or another. Comes from the idea of counting on fingers (digits). Quantifies (measure something and give it a number). Analog- continuous and existing in the physical world.