Barney Davey has a post on his blog Convergent Media-Is it Time to Bury Digital Art? Basically, it talks about using a new definition calling
digital art Convergent Media. This article is well worth your time to read it.
My personal thoughts are that this would mean we now have to define a new word to the public. It’s ART and
after visiting many museums and reading many blogs, etc, I think the best definition is the materials used and not
always how it was created originally.
We don’t explain from scratch, Photo Reference in the computer, then cloned, then painted, then printed, then sprayed, etc…
I prefer to just say it’s my art and it’s produced as pigment on canvas with hand embellishing and gold leafing, etc or whatever
I have added.
Too much detail might be boggling the minds of collectors that really don’t care about details, but end product instead.
Just my thoughts on it. What are yours. Comments welcome!
Hi Marilyn,
Thanks for your comment on my blog. I agree with you too much detail is just confusing and unnecessary when it comes to explaining how digitally rendered art is produced. You are right, painters don’t give such details as, painted using Shcminke Mussini Translucent Cyan oil; so why should digital artists have to go into details. Either you like how it looks are you don’t. Either you accept I’m a qualified artist or you don’t.
I coined the term convergent media because like it or not, we all use labels to describe things and processes. It’s no more explanatory than its cousin, mixed media. However, like mixed media, it conveys the work was created in process with multiple steps. When I hear mixed media, I don’t know what it means exactly. If I am curious enough to ask, I can get details. Convergent media, as with mixed media, conveys enough to allow an artist to elaborate with whatever else might be asked in their own way providing as little of great detail as each chooses to offer.
Comment by Barney Davey — July 16, 2007 @ 12:06 am
Painters may not give details such as what brand and pigment paint they use, but they sure don’t say their paintings are photographs, or sculptures. And a piece of digital art should not be labeled a “painting”. I think having a label which clearly defines a piece of digital artwork from a real painting would be beneficial to artists working in both media as well as the general public. Just my 2 cents, sorry if it offends anyone.
Comment by Alison — March 20, 2008 @ 9:30 am