Digital Art Technology Technology is constantly growing and changing the way we live. Sometimes it makes life easier and even more interesting. When thinking about the art of the past, computers and technology usually didn't come to mind. Now, thanks to modern technology, the digital age is discovering vast ways to create stunning works of art through computer tools and software. Art is now created digitally and can look incredible to the modern eye. Digital art technology is in a sense an art form that can be built on a computer-based model and still portray an artist's rendering but in a mechanical way. ÒAs early as 1912, Futurists designed mobile sculptures operated by machines, in which the machine was incorporated into the body of the artwork itself. Both movements championed the artist as user of technology and recognized the machine as art, ideas that would slowly make their way into the artistic mainstream in time for the arrival of digital electronic technology.Ó (55, Wolf) This was the beginning of the years and years of transition towards artistic technology. It was a slow transition because the equipment sometimes malfunctioned during art exhibitions and the technology had yet to be sufficiently developed. Inventions that began more than 40 years ago gave rise to digital art technology. In 1963, Ivan E. Sutherland created a program for interactive computer graphics, called Sketchpad. It facilitated the collaboration between drawing and calculation. ÒBetween the mid-1970s and throughout the 1980s, computer graphics improved enormously and a new type of imaging became possible: visualizations of complex mathematical functions, three-dimensional graphics and fractal images no artis...... middle of papers. .....eat classical art has been and will continue to be a portal through which artists can create masterpieces.Works Cited1. Software: Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 ©copyright 1996-2003, Amazon.com Inc. www.amazon.com2. Software: Adobe Photoshop Element 2.0 © copyright 1996-2003, Amazon.com Inc. www.amazon.com3. Software: Corel Painter 8 © copyright 1996-2003, Amazon.com Inc.www.amazon.com4. Lieser, Wolfgang, Digital Art Museum © copyright 1993-2003 Digital Art Museum www.DAM.org5. Wolf, Mark JP, Abstracting Reality © copyright 2000 University Press of America, ¨ Inc. Lanham, Maryland6. Pickover, Clifford A., Visions of the Future © copyright1994 St MartinÕs Press, Inc. New York, NY7. Wilkens, Glen Painting with Pixels © copyright 1999 Sterling Publishing Co., Inc New York, NY