Computers and modern art: digital art museum

ABSTRACT

This paper focuses on the relationship between fine art movements in the 20th C and the pioneers of digital art from 1956 to 1986. The research is part of a project called Digital Art Museum, which is an electronic archive devoted to the history and practice of computer art, and is also active in curating exhibitions of the work. While computer art genres never became mainstream art movements, there are clear areas of common interest, even when these are separated by some decades.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.7 Digital Libraries

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Experimentation

Keywords:
Constructivism, Cubism, Modernism, art movements, computer art, digital art, digital art museum, fine art