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.
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...
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
Creativity in mathematics and computer inspired artistic movements merge as artists inquire into the link between simple, functional form and aesthetics. more...
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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WonderRoot Transforms the Lives of Artists
By: Gaurav Bhatia
Review of CHANGE Garrick Theatre, a Variety Show
In: Performance Art
By:
Nina Saville
Shade-shifting Shapes at ArtSpace 404
In: Kinetic Sculptures/Soundscapes
By: Michael Waterson
Virtual Paper Dolls and Flat Stanley
By: Alice Luckhardt
Sex and Death to the Age 14 by Spalding Gray
In: Performance Art
By: Martin G. Wood
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