Technological Development and Art and Design as a Digital Medium

Abstract

Technology is the act of creating knowledge in a technical field, creating something new with this knowledge, revealing it with new methods and techniques, and it has progressed with the concept of design. While human beings are in a technological production, they have also designed. Design has altered with the effect of developing technology and has sometimes taken advantage of technological possibilities in different periods of history and has guided it with the vision it has created. Thus, design and technology have always been concepts that affect each other, and the application forms of art and design have changed and developed with technology. In time, the expression of artistic products and computer technologies with hardware and software has created art in digital environment. Just as every technological development is reflected in art and design as new possibilities of use, every new digital work has become a subject that contributes to the development of this new medium from different angles. In this article, the new possibilities brought to the fields of art and design by the digital medium that emerged with the computer technologies that mankind has reached through various periods are discussed with an approach that investigates how traditional methods and techniques are affected by new technologies. Then, the subject has been examined in the context of new perspectives provided by digital medium to the field.

Key Words: Technology, art, design, digital design, digital art, virtual reality, art history

DOI: 10.7176/JSTR/6-13-05