Digital Art txt - Introduction

I'm not really sure what I just read. They were talking about computers for a while, then suddenly I was reading about poetry, and directly following that were about 15 pages of a list of art peices. I feel like I'm in Conceptual again (except that that was about 4x longer)! But I have to take notes on the reading, so I will.



Digital art built up slowly from about 1945 on until it hit its stride in the 90's and skyrocketed up to where we are now. The idea of computer system and the Internet really started then, as the "Memex" - Vannevar Bush. This area of time is also when cyberkinetics began.

Moving on, the 60s were a time of groundwork. They conceptualized the internet as a communication network (ARPANET). In 68 Douglas Engelbert brought thought up bitmapping - connecting the electrons from a processor and a screen - basically mouse manipulation.

Apple finally managed the desktop in 83.

the 1960s had some of the first computer-generated artwork (Gaussian Quadratic, Michael A. Noll). Experiments in Art and Technology was formed in 66.

The 70s and 80s were mostly experimental time.

The 90s of course were when it really hit. There were exhibitions for Digital art alone. It's dynamic because it also can have a time aspect, and will require audience participation more than more traditional art. It's also more dependent of the museum because the museum actually has to put work into displaying digital art - they can't just post them on the walls. There's also the question if how to display internet art. I didn't really understand this part, but apparently there is some debate because on one hand internet art is meant for the internet and on the other they want to limit some pieces to not be accessible to people in their homes - only at certain locations. I got really confused here because (and they were even talking about how widespread internet access is in this day and age) how can you put those specific restrictions on the internet? Some certain locations can block things from their personal network, and some online files might require passwords but I don't know how they could possibly limit access of something on the internet to one area etc.