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Multimedia Arts Feature Writer: Jo Murphy

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.


Feature Writer Articles in Multimedia Arts

Digital Art and the Discovery of Fractals
"The relationship of fractals in math to fractals in the natural world, is one of the reasons artists have been so successful in re-creating natural scenes digitally."
Computer Aided Drawing
The program CAD saves time and work for illustrators, designers and drafters. CAD is suitable for engineers and designers from a variety of industries.
Simple Incremental Cropping to Create Animation
A tutorial showing how files are prepared by incremental cropping in Photoshop to be imported to Movie Maker for animation.
Dark Digital Art With Irony by David Ho
Ho uses software programs like Photoshop, Illustrator, Poser and Bryce to express grief, despair, isolation and emotionally disturbing statements.
Digital Media by Beryl Graham
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.


Contributing Articles in Multimedia Arts

Pakistani-American Artist Challenges Stereotypes
Yaminay Chaudhri, Pakistani-American architect turned artist, creates multi-media art challenging stereotypical image of Muslim women, power & body in relation to space.
WonderRoot Transforms the Lives of Artists
WonderRoot is a nonprofit organization committed to improving the art infrastructure of Atlanta.
Review of CHANGE Garrick Theatre, a Variety Show
Seeing is believing! Be bedazzled by the brilliant Brachetti as he brings a hundred characters to the stage changing in the blink of an eyelid.
Shade-shifting Shapes at ArtSpace 404
Artist-instructor Michael McGinnis has created a temporal sculpture environment of light and sound at Santa Rosa's ArtSpace 404 gallery.
Virtual Paper Dolls and Flat Stanley
From simple cut-outs using paper to drag & drop using a computer mouse, the love of paper dolls has endured for decades.