Barrera entre la tecnología y el arte digital.

The Barrier Between Art and Science

Alejandrina Del Angel Ponce

Noviembre 2015.

Universidad de Guanajuato

División de Ingenierías Campus Irapuato-Salamanca

Teorías del Arte y la Estética

Abstract

Trying to understand digital arts as a discipline that can bring knowledge and a powerful exchange of ideas, our main purpose as artists –or art students as well– is conecting people trought creations and the reconfiguration of a society who doesn’t understands how posible to work by media and science at the same time.

There’s an unbreakable union between art and technology, wating to be discovered and exploded by researchers all over the world, which will leads us to an understanding of how digital arts work nowadays.

The Barrier Between Art and Science

My mother, an art fanatic in its many forms, proud of her little daughter as only she could be, always says with a little humor on her voice that people doesn’t have any idea what my career is about, some skeptic, some other curious, with ambiguous suppositions. We can formally refer to digital art as an artistic creation produced and displayed in any  stage using digital technology [1], but there is also something missing over here: the great separation between art from science and technology we’re facing on 21th century, even years after the boom of this enormous discipline presented to us. Why people doesn’t understand the concept of digital arts as something more than graphic design and digital illustration?

The concept or art nowadays is a much idealized picture of Renaissance and Ancient Greek that middle and high school education has put in our heads, referring us headly to Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti, and some other contemporary if we have any luck. So much so, when someone says the word “artist”, it’s very easy to imagine a fragile soul, an unemployed foolish and solitary person, making day by day even tougher to imagine –or re imagine– a new way to see someone who’s not using a brush, modeling with chisel or playing an instrument as a “real artist”. Thinking about this a little more, does our art has any value to the society if we don’t make it with our own hands? Does the art has to be a visible extension of our hands to be taken into account?

Right now, contemporary artists faces two problems: Even if the concept of aesthetic art have been very controversial and flexible through the years [2], convencionalisms about realistic naked women and still life pantings hasn’t changed at all; deep down in our own minds, we think that we’ll never be artists enough if we aren’t capable to create ourselves a Starry Night Over the Rhone or a Gioconda. On the other side, calling itself as totalitarian owner of technology, the man learned to change the channel on TV, toast a piece of bread, use GPS on smartphones and download games on consoles, but really doesn’t posseses anything, because doesn’t knows how it Works. Thus it is, when we  ignore the essence of something or think it doesn’t make part of us, we can opt between fear, or simply do anything.

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