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Electronic art is art which makes use of electronic media or, more broadly, refers to technology and/or electronic media. It is related to information art, media art, video art, interactive art, internet art, and electronic music, among others.
The term electronic art is almost, but not entirely, synonymous to computer art and digital art. The latter two terms, and
especially the term computer-generated art are mostly
used for visual artworks generated by computers. Electronic art has a much broader connotation, referring to artworks that
include any type of electronic component -- also works in music, dance, architecture and performance. It is an interdisciplinary field; artists often collaborate with scientists and engineers
when creating their works.
Three major art festivals in this field use the term electronic art in their name:
- International Symposium for Electronic Art (ISEA), organized approximately every
two years since 1988, international;
- Ars
Electronica Symposium, organized yearly since 1979 by Ars
Electronica in Linz, Austria;
- Dutch Electronic Art Festival (DEAF), organized yearly since 1994 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Electronic art is often, but not always, interactive. Artists make use
of technologies like the Internet, computer networks, robotics, wearable technology, wireless technology and virtual
reality.
The Prix Ars Electronica is a major yearly award for
several categories of electronic art.
Artists
A selection of important artist working in electronic art:
- Laurie Anderson
- Marcel.Lí
Antúnez Roca (from the dance collective La Fura Dels Baus)
- Roy Ascott
- Louis-Philippe
Demers and Bill Vorn
- Elizabeth Diller and
Richard Scofidio
- Maurizio
Bolognini
- Ulrike Gabriel
- Peter Gabriel (various multimedia-CD, e.g. Xplora 1)
- Perry Hoberman
- Jodi (internet artists)
- Eduardo Kac
- George Legrady
- David Link (aka David
Gabriel)
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
- Chico MacMurtrie (from the group Amorphic Robot
Works)
- Yves Netzhammer
- Knowbotic Research
- Sensorband
- Stelarc
- Survival Research Laboratories
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