Digital art

Digital art is creative activity based on the use of information technologies which leads to the creation of works of art in digital form. Today the notion of digital art refers both to the processing of originally material carrier (like scanning of images or texts) and to the creation of absolutely new works of art by means of digital technologies and software. Processing of photos that were previously scanned or made with digital cameras together with the availability of corresponding software leads to the creation of a tremendous number of modified images that bear no hint of the original image.

There are two subdivisions of digital imagery. Images can be created in two dimensional environments that are similar to any other images made on paper, and three-dimensional environments that take the viewer in a computer-generated virtual world where you can see objects from different angles.

Hyperlink texts are another form of digital art that is created and exists only in computer environment. The main idea of hyperlink texts is that while reading the text the reader can choose among the various outcomes of one plot and click on the hyperlinks leading to the corresponding variant of the text. The reader is to some extent the maker of the plot in this case. The scale of such branching can be endless with thousands of possible variants. Such texts are created to provide the effect of a game which is so characteristic for post-modern literature in general.