Digital Arts
Digital art is an artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process. Since the 1970s, various names have been used to describe the process, including computer art and multimedia art. Digital art is itself placed under the larger umbrella term new media art.
After some initial resistance, the impact of digital technology has transformed activities such as painting, drawing, sculpture and music/sound art, while new forms, such as net art, digital installation art, and virtual reality, have become recognized artistic practices. More generally the term digital artist is used to describe an artist who makes use of digital technologies in the production of art. In an expanded sense, "digital art" is contemporary art that uses the methods of mass production or digital media.
The techniques of digital art are used extensively by the mainstream media in advertisements, and by film-makers to produce visual effects. Desktop publishing has had a huge impact on the publishing world, although that is more related to graphic design. Both digital and traditional artists use many sources of electronic information and programs to create their work. Given the parallels between visual and musical arts, it is possible that general acceptance of the value of digital visual art will progress in much the same way as the increased acceptance of electronically produced music over the last three decades.
Digital art can be purely computer-generated (such as fractals and algorithmic art) or taken from other sources, such as a scanned photograph or an image drawn using vector graphics software using a mouse or graphics tablet. Though technically the term may be applied to art done using other media or processes and merely scanned in, it is usually reserved for art that has been non-trivially modified by a computing process (such as a computer program, microcontroller or any electronic system capable of interpreting an input to create an output); digitized text data and raw audio and video recordings are not usually considered digital art in themselves, but can be part of the larger project of computer art and information art. Artworks are considered digital painting when created in similar fashion to non-digital paintings but using software on a computer platform and digitally outputting the resulting image as painted on canvas.
Andy Warhol created digital art using a Commodore Amiga where the computer was publicly introduced at the Lincoln Center, New York in July 1985. An image of Debbie Harry was captured in monochrome from a video camera and digitized into a graphics program called ProPaint. Warhol manipulated the image adding colour by using flood fills.
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Matching Digital Arts Colleges
University of Central Florida
Four or more years; Public; $19,810 average out-state tuition; $4,478 average in-state tuition |
Full Sail University
Four or more years; Private for profit; $19,929 average out-state tuition; $19,929 average in-state tuition |
Otis College of Art and Design
Four or more years; Private not for profit; $42,370 average out-state tuition; $42,370 average in-state tuition |
Arizona State University-Tempe
Four or more years; Public; $26,684 average out-state tuition; $10,104 average in-state tuition |
University of Florida
Four or more years; Public; $25,694 average out-state tuition; $4,477 average in-state tuition |
CUNY Queensborough Community College
At least 2 but less than 4 years; Public; $7,680 average out-state tuition; $4,800 average in-state tuition |
University of North Carolina at Asheville
Four or more years; Public; $20,845 average out-state tuition; $4,122 average in-state tuition |
Scholarships for Digital Arts Majors
Pepsi Stronger Together Scholarship ContestPepsiCo |
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award $25,000 |
deadline September 20, 2022 |
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MFA Provost's Graduate FellowshipUniversity of Central Florida |
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award $10,000 |
deadline Varies |
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Art Scholarship - University of Puget SoundUniversity of Puget Sound |
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award $5,000 |
deadline January 15, 2023 |
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CU Boulder Arts & Humanities Achievement ScholarshipUniversity of Colorado Boulder |
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award $4,000 |
deadline January 15, 2023 |
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CU Boulder Arts & Humanities Gold ScholarshipUniversity of Colorado Boulder |
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award $3,000 |
deadline January 15, 2023 |
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Nick Mirkopoulos College Scholarship FundCineCares Foundation |
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award $2,500 |
deadline Varies |
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Evelyn Hill Anselevicius Fine Arts ScholarshipNew Mexico Highlands University |
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award $1,698 |
deadline February 15, 2023 |
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The Dudley Moore, Sr. Furniture Design CompetitionBienenstock Furniture Library |
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award Up to $5,000 |
deadline December 07, 2022 |
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SEMO Visual and Performing Arts ScholarshipSoutheast Missouri State University - College of Liberal Arts |
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award Up to $1,500 |
deadline July 01, 2023 |
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General Motors Endowed ScholarshipNew Mexico Highlands University |
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award $1,200 |
deadline February 15, 2023 |
Digital Arts Related Majors
- Graphic Design
- Music
- Photography
- Music Performance
- Fine and Studio Arts
- Drama/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft
- Fashion/Apparel Design
- Cinematography and Film/Video Production
- Interior Design
- Dance
- Film/Cinema/Media Studies
- Acting
- Visual and Performing Arts
- Film/Video and Photographic Arts
- Music Theory and Composition
- Art
- Illustration
- Design and Applied Arts
- Art History, Criticism and Conservation
- Design and Visual Communications