A recurring question in debates on digital art: the role of technology in the creative process and in the work itself.
Some say technology is merely a tool, a means of achieving the desired results.
I disagree. What distinguishes digital arts from other arts is that they question technology in the aesthetic field.
This is therefore neither art that uses digital media in its production nor art that merely takes those media as its subject.
These are creations possible only within contemporary scientific research and information and communication technologies.
Forms of these technological aesthetics include the new life forms created by Theo Jansen since 1990 (featured above), the transgenic art of Eduardo Kac, data-visualization experiments such as Martin Wattenberg’s Idea Line, and mashups attuned to database art, such as YooouuuTuuube by David Kraftsow.