Technology Changed Art

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"Technology changed art from being static, to forms that moved and tried to convey time." Discuss through the work and ideas of two artists.

Artists today use different technologies to explore and create new forms of artistic expression. Whereas traditional artists used pencil, brushes and carving tools to create interesting works of art, today’s artists use sound, video, animation and computer generated images. A new form of art: digital art has evolved over the past few decades that has developed from simple shapes made using computer programmes to finite works of art. Artists can access millions of digital colours, brushes, pencils far easily than they could physically. Therefore, allowing artists to work faster. Computers have allowed artists to experiment with interactivity and multimedia just like discovery of new materials allowed Da Vinci to experiment with them. Today a lot of art exhibitions include videos and sounds. Even traditional artists use modern technologies such as Internet to reach vast audiences, and communicate with other artists. I’ll discuss the impact of some technologies on art and how technologies changed art from being static to, to forms that moved and conveyed time such as videos. I’ll focus on video artworks of Tracey Moffatt and Lillian Schwartz. Moffatt uses films as an art form to reflect the technologies of Hollywood and television. Schwartz is known for his 20th century computer-developed art.
Before artists discovered video technology, time was shown in visual arts through progressive images, such as comic. Even ancient civilisations had methods of telling stories through progressive visuals such as carvings. When photography was invented, this method was still being used in forms of images. Artists tried to force their old ways of thought onto this new medium, such as Degas. However photography is still a

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