Nowadays, the interaction between technology and art is more and more profound and the degree of inter-dependence is higher and higher, which gradually leads to their integration. From the characteristics of the integration of technology and art, it is mainly reflected in the following aspects. First, the cross-border cooperation and exchange between technical experts and artists are closer; Secondly, the boundaries between technology and art, virtual and real, artist and audience tend to blur, and audience participation and experience become an important part of art works.
The first is the closer cross-border cooperation between technical experts and artists. Since the 1960s, artists have successfully applied digital technology to art practice. In the cooperation of technology and art, although artists, engineers, designers and critics have different backgrounds and perspectives, they coordinate and cooperate with each other; On the other hand, the cooperation between artists and technical experts can promote the development of their ideas, and urge artists to go beyond traditional methods to explore new ways. The interactivity, multi perception and virtuality of today's digital art fully reflect the integration of digital technology and digital art. What digital art brings to people is not a single vision, but an immersive feeling and a comprehensive experience.
Secondly, the boundary between technology and art tends to blur. It mainly includes two aspects: first, the boundary between virtual and reality is fuzzy; Second, the boundary between the audience and the artist is blurred. The gradual integration of technology and art in the digital age makes the virtual and reality in the same physical space, and the virtual objects and real objects are presented together. In the tradition, the clear distinction between the audience and the artist is becoming more and more blurred. To some extent, everyone can become an artist. In the traditional concept of art, there is a distance between artists and ordinary people. In contemporary digital technology and art, the audience may become the main body of artistic creation. The audience participates in the work with action and becomes a part of the work and its meaning. From the perspective of the process of artistic creation and the formation of artistic works, the creation of contemporary art embodies a kind of "incompleteness", and the generation of artistic works needs the participation of the audience or appreciator. Therefore, the audience's participation and experience has become the main manifestation of the integration of technology and art in the digital age, and even the purpose of the interaction between technology and art.
In the process of integration of digital technology and art, digital technology / art can break the boundaries of time and space, reconstruct time and space, express the stagnation or crossing of time, connect the past, modern and future, and expand the concept of time and space; Digital technology / art can blur the boundaries between reality and falsehood, artists and audiences, increase or create people's interactive experience, and enhance people's sensibility, imagination and creativity; Digital technology / art can pay more attention to the expression of emotion, experience and difference, and can better reflect the cross-border and integration significance of technology and art, subjective and objective, self and world, memory and forgetting. It helps us to deeply understand and reconstruct the relationship between human and the world, deepen the understanding of the nature and relationship between human and technology, and better shape the future of mankind.
Published on April 1, 2021