legitimacy of digital art
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- tongues
A traditional artist friend of mine suggested that my new approach to including a context of realism (photographed environments) adds a legitimacy to that doesn't exist when I due purely "digital" art. To which I replied : "what?"
It would seem that depending on the person, digital art still sits in the shadow of traditional artistry.
After having worked as a digital artist for many years now It really bothers me that the work I do in the context of a browser window is comprehended as less substantial than that which I do with canvas.
I had simply assumed that we had reached the point where digital art was better respected. Most people I talk to seem to be on board. How do we deal with these loafers?
- paulrand0
your new approach to including a context of realism adds a legitimacy to that doesn't exist when you do purely "digital" art
- tongues0
*which*
- mitsu0
it's all subjective.
why do you create digital art in the fist place? if it's for self gratification? a creative outlet? if so, then what your doing is no less legitimate than the crop cirlces people create with their tractors...
if you create it for the sake of being perceived as a legitimate artist, then your legitimacy is left to perspective, which of course is in the minds of others.
- ********0
there is no legitimacy to anything digital, i think that's the whole point,and there's nothing wrong with embracing the illegitimate in these illegitmate times
- TransFatty0
case in point
your link don't work, cow poke
- vespa0
"what?"
- ********0
- thosethat0
anyway...
what's a 'traditional artist'...
does he wear a smock and a beret then..?
tell your friend to go being 'traditional' and to excuse the rest of the world as we move on...
- thosethat0
hey i missed out the word 'on' from that last post... can you guess where..?
- ********0
too legit to quit
- ********0
also, "moving on" is a state of mind....nobody gets out of here alive
- thosethat0
i'm tired...
let's drink beer...
- Blofeldt0
tell your friend to get bent. Digital is still a new medium. Do they feel that photography is not a legitimate medium, because that's pretty new too (only 140 or so years old.) They're just being a snob. Digital art is of course a vaild as any other form of artistic expression..
- instantok0
i think it has a lot to do with the tangible quality of non-digital art...for example (maybe this is just me):
take one design...view it asa jpg in a browser window...then as a print of the same size (scale complicates the argument)...i know i would rather look at the print than the jpg because it is a physical thing that i can pick up and hold
of course this comparison is not applicable to interactive art...which i believe is completely valid but is still constrained by the screen / keyboard / mouse which affects critics' perceptions...using different input devices can make work exponentially more interesting...
sheesh im talking a lot...sorry...tricky issue
- Mimio0
It has to do with the fact that alot of "video/digital" artist fail to reconcile the medium's inherent qualities. They only use the computer to deliver simulation. Giving the viewer no greater insight than television.
- ********0
i mean, all new and unthought-of technology is swell.....but, not to sound like an elitist.....but it's not so much that too many youth who "try too hard" are able to access various mediums like an over-caffeinated octopus, but it's just that, too much of anything is a bad thing, expecially when its reduced to the bare, jellified skeleton of "technique" and the loss of meaning (whatever that means) in content is at issue.....as it definately is when it comes to the WWW......then it becomes like a digital WWF...with nobody paying attention to what they should be paying attention to....emerging synthesizers of analog-digital wisdom....big up to cats like Carlson, SP, TF, 86theonions, wonderwagon for nurturing trees with thinking branches.
- brooke0
My mom says I'm illegitimate...
- ********0
me too, brooke....good point instantok
- Bluejam0
Digital Art is easy to do.
Digital Art removes the barrier that you have to be good to do it.
Digital Art can and will be done by anyone and everyone, that pisses a lot of 'artists' off.
Digital Art requires new skills that make 'traditional artists' redundant.
- ********0
but its still clear that "skilled artisans" of the Advertising and Commercial Empire are not necessarily artists and should, therefore, not be permitted on the Mothership when it surfaces from deep in the Pacific.....