Multimedia Arts


Feature Writer: Jo Murphy
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Multimedia art involves the interplay of visual elements, with text, sound and more recently even feel and smell. Some aspects of multimedia may be interactive and include movement. Multimedia is never just music, theatre, visual art, dance, theatrical or documentary film or video but something larger than the sum of its parts. Modern genres are interesting because they are increasingly becoming multimodal.

Digital storytelling becomes richer and deeper when visual and narrative art are expressed through digital media. Performance art, theatre and animation can incorporate so many of these elements that the possibilities seem endless.

If you have a genre that you would like to see dicussed please email with suggestions.

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Dark Digital Art With Irony by David Ho

In: Digital Art

Ho uses software programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, Poser and Bryce to express grief, despair, isolation and emotionally disturbing statements. more...

Digital Media by Beryl Graham

In: Digital Art

Beryl Graham explores how the medium digital artists choose inspires their work. This is a complex topic area and one she explains simply but thoroughly. more...

John Heartfield's Political Photomontage

In: Digital Art

John Heartfield pioneered modern photomontage by developing a unique method of appropriating and reusing photographs. more...

Performance Art from Futurism to the Present

In: Performance Art

Rose Lee Goldberg's book about Performance Art spans the Futurist movement to present day. It has been extensively updated since publication more than 20 years. more...

Performing the Other – an Article by Rhee

In: Performance Art

Art historian Jieun Rhee looks at the series of performances by Yoko Ono, within the context created by social, cultural, national and ethnic audience response. more...

Mathematical Basis of Computer Art

In: Multimedia Arts (general)

Creativity in mathematics and computer inspired artistic movements merge as artists inquire into the link between simple, functional form and aesthetics. more...

Copy Art Pioneered in Canada

In: Digital Art

Although it was an international art movement, Canada is recognised for its major contribution to the art form called Copy Art. more...

Vermeer and His Use of the Camera Obscura

In: Digital Art

Steadman discusses speculation and controversy surrounding claims that the great seventeenth-century Dutch artist, Johannes Vermeer, used the camera obscura. more...

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