Digital Art: Technology Break Through

This Tuesday, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London began an exhibition of digital art: "Decode: Digital Design Sensations". Digital art may have once been thought of as an enjoyable "nerdy" pastime, but it has official given our world a break through into information that was once very hard to understand or explain. According to the recent New York Times Article, these incredible pieces that were placed in the V&A Museum are not only spectacular, but they are also, "dazzling examples of data visualization, the new medium that translates complex information into gorgeous- and easily understandable- digital images." The museum contains pieces of Digital Art from the 1950s that they refer to as, "Digital Pioneers".

The exhibition shows a whole new realm of art work for not only our generation, but the entire population of mankind. The exhibition in london walks you through the digital art world from its beginnings to its most current creations.

"Earlier artists , like Harold Cohen, devoted their loves to working directly with the machine without any intermediate software by writing their own computer programs to produce drawings."

Just like most of our technology today, this technology constructed by Harold Cohen enabled students and people interested in the digital art world to produce their own artistic work and pieces without having to truly understand the technology beneath the surface of what they were creating. Artists can now use this foreign language of 'computer code' and use it as their tools to create a masterpiece.

The potentials of technology are explored on a daily basis and the hopes for the digital design world look bright. Some day students may be able to splash paint across the screen just by simply moving their arm, as if they were stroking a brush against the screen. Hopes for the artistic world is that one day computers will be able to be controlled by gestures and voices rather than keys and a mouse.