Editing Digital art (section)

{{Short description|Art that is created digitally with a computer}}

'''Digital art''', or the '''digital arts''', is [[art]]istic work that uses [[Digital electronics|digital technology]] as part of the creative or presentational process. It can also refer to computational art that uses and engages with digital media.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paul |first1=Christiane |editor1-last=Paul |editor1-first=Christiane |title=A Companion to Digital Art |date=2016 |publisher=Wiley |location=Malden, MA |isbn=978-1-118-47520-1 |pages=1–2 |chapter=Introduction From Digital to Post-Digital—Evolutions of an Art Form}}</ref> Since the 1960s, various names have been used to describe digital art, including [[computer art]], [[electronic art]], [[multimedia art]],<ref>{{cite journal |author=Reichardt, Jasia |author-link=Jasia Reichardt |date=1974 |title=Twenty years of symbiosis between art and science |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000009559 |journal=Art and Science |volume=XXIV |issue=1 |pages=41–53}}</ref> and [[new media art]].<ref>[[Christiane Paul (curator)|Christiane Paul]] (2006). ''Digital Art'', pp. 7–8. Thames & Hudson.</ref><ref>Lieser, Wolf. ''Digital Art''. Langenscheidt: h.f. ullmann. 2009, pp. 13–15</ref> Digital art includes pieces stored on physical media, such as with [[digital painting]], and galleries on [[website]]s. This extenuates to the field known as [[Visual computing|Visual Computation.]]