1. Task 1 Research digital artform within contemporary art practice

2. Current practitioners Digital arts organisations International arts organisations Contexts of digital arts practice Definitions of digital arts

3. General term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process. Since the 1970s, various names have been used to describe the process including computer art and multimedia art, and digital art is itself placed under the larger umbrella term new media art.

4. The impact of digital technology has transformed activities such as painting, drawing, sculpture and music/sound art, while new forms, such as net art, digital installation art, and virtual reality, have become recognized artistic practices. More generally the term digital artist is used to describe an artist who makes use of digital technologies in the production of art. "digital art" is a term applied to contemporary art that uses the methods of mass production or digital media.

5. concepts of original digital art - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art new media - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_media_art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_media_art net art - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_arthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_art sound or audio art - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_art interactive art - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_art http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_art

6. http://www.billviola.com/ His art deals with the themes of human consciousness and experience - birth, death, love, emotion and a kind of humanist spirituality. Dualism - life and death, light and dark, stressed and calm, loud and quiet

7. Carlos Amorales “Liquid Archive", a series of digital vector drawings and compositions in a variety of media Uses black, red and grey throughout his work. Images are usually inspired from nature

8. Creates drawing, music, video, performance video game mods. Re-uses existing materials such as dancing stands, Photoshop gradients and YouTube videos to create new works of art. Explores the relationship between technology and culture.

9. The Seer - http://www.theseer.info/directory/artsorganisations.h tml http://www.theseer.info/directory/artsorganisations.h tml Arts Council - http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/ Axis - http://www.axisweb.org/http://www.axisweb.org/ FACT - http://www.fact.co.uk/projects/http://www.fact.co.uk/projects/

10. Vision Forum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Forum_(art_orga nisation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Forum_(art_orga nisation) IFACCA - http://www.ifacca.org/http://www.ifacca.org/ Digital Art Source - http://www.digitalartsource.com/pages/about.htm http://www.digitalartsource.com/pages/about.htm LUX - http://www.lux.org.uk/http://www.lux.org.uk/ Rhizome - http://rhizome.org/http://rhizome.org/ DAM - http://dam.org/homehttp://dam.org/home

11. Basic history of the computer and computing in the arts Theories and trends in media art and digital culture The computer as a medium, tool, or subject matter, screening work from the web, video and film Variety of forms (net art, digital video and audio, interactive works, animation, hypertext documents, etc.)

12. Article 1 - http://www.dunkingbirdproductions.com/pages/article5.h tml http://www.dunkingbirdproductions.com/pages/article5.h tml Article 2 - http://hyperart.com/lib/index.htmlhttp://hyperart.com/lib/index.html Article 3 - http://www.acmi.net.au/7E8A5C8E6F304A839116C3C74F81 440C.htm http://www.acmi.net.au/7E8A5C8E6F304A839116C3C74F81 440C.htm Article 4 - http://www.hawaii.edu/aln/cul.htmhttp://www.hawaii.edu/aln/cul.htm Article 5 - http://www.hawaii.edu/aln/lit_imp.htmhttp://www.hawaii.edu/aln/lit_imp.htm Article 6 - http://www.humanities.uci.edu/mposter/writings/internet.html http://www.humanities.uci.edu/mposter/writings/internet.html

13. http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/digital+ar t http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/digital+ar t http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_art http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywo rds/digital-art/ http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywo rds/digital-art/

14. http://www.mediascot.org/ http://www.idmaa.org/about-idmaa/ http://thespace.org/ http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/int ernational-festival-of-digital-art-2012.aspx http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/int ernational-festival-of-digital-art-2012.aspx http://www.leedsdigitalfestival.com/ http://www.transmediale.de/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Media_art_festivals http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/war ner/english122tg/bodylanguage.html http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/war ner/english122tg/bodylanguage.html http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/war ner/english122tg/BladeRunner.htm http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/war ner/english122tg/BladeRunner.htm