The ability to portray ideas through the use of art has been considered divine by many. The overall concept of bringing ideas to a canvas has long been turned into a technological bonanza. There have been many new developments with the use of specialized products that help create art to computer programs and applications that help modify and illustrate it.
The digital age, where we use our handheld devices and computers to look at the conceptual illustrations of historical sites to the cosmos is astonishing. the current use of digital media has made it possible for all of us to bring forward what was a strong forte of computer nerds back in the 80s and 90s.
If we look at how much digital art we consume on a daily basis, we should look no further to the abstract designs that shape our everyday needs. From digital graffiti to holographic content displayed through lasers, we see changing colors, designs and fonts in a fraction of milliseconds around us.
A normal user looks at an advertisement on a news channel, a science fiction movie, a baseball game score screen and artifacts in a museum on a daily basis. With the passage of time, everything is going digital to the books we read, to the food we eat. Moreover, the new wave of 3D printing was a distant past but a reality now. It shapes medicines, foods and even the parts for a space shuttle.
One prominent example of digital art was portrayed by an American artist Addie Wagenknecht recently. She used steel, CCTV, DSL Camera and internet cables to form the sculpture of a baroque chandelier. Although it may not look a big deal to many, but it served a powerful message. It shows how our life is surrounded by all forms of surveillance equipment, making us an inmate of a prison we call earth. It is not just other humans, but the machines and the digital media that have a keen eye on all our moves in our everyday lives.