Interactive Digital Art COMP 4640 Homework #7 Fall 2008 Martin Lindsey
Some of the Categories include… Digital Art Interactive Art Interactive Video Internet Art New Media Art
Fractals mage:Mandel_zoom_00_mand elbrot_set.jpg age:Von_Koch_curve.gif
Algorithmic Art Algorists used plotters to illustrate their output Used random or psuedo-random processes to produce variability
Early Pioneers Frieder Nake A. Michael Noll George Nees
Animation CGI – Computer Generated Imagery 3D Graphics
Internet Art A genre used by “net artists” Some of the works of Thomas Briggs
Internet Art Includes online video, audio and radio
Interactive Video Applied on broadband, computer games and cinema The technique blends interaction and linear film or video
Gaming William Higinbotham’s Tennis for Two on an oscilloscope from 1958 Programmers and graphic designers create today’s popular games such as Ghost Recon
Languages Java – web applets and GUI’s from COMP 1210 Processing – used for creative coding and computational art GML – Geography Markup Language