A Third Art Movement to Note

Computer Art

This is an art movement which puts concentration on art which can be displayed or in someway be developed by a computer. Pixel art really falls into this art movement as all pixel art is done on computers. Computer art can be any of the formats a computer can output, such as CDs, Printed pictures, on screen display, videogames, websites etc. There is a lot of potential art to be made with so many formats to make.

At first (1960's), only engineers and scientists could create computer art as the technology was still heavily under development and was not yet widespread.. These people wanted to create creative looking pieces of art, so would mix and match different machines and software to try and create some interesting art.

Here is art from the 60's, created by Desmond Paul Henry, using "Drawing Machine 1".

Computer art became more accessible in the 70's Xerox developed the worlds first GUI (Graphical User Interface). When Apple Macintosh was released in 1984, with a GUI which allowed creative design allowed many designers to create art on their computer, increasing the popularity of the usage of computer art.

Obviously, I like this art movement as one of the potential output of this movement is video games design, which is the reason I am here writing this blog, studying at university for a games design degree.


references:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Art
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1e/Wiki.picture_by_drawing_machine_1.jpg/220px-Wiki.picture_by_drawing_machine_1.jpg (Drawing Machine 1 Image)