introduction and chapter one

The introduction gave another perspective of computer history that I found very interesting. I did not know how slow the progress of technology was until the 1990's and how revolutionary the 1990's were for art to have this new medium. I would not have connected the "digital revolution" to the dadaist movement, but the text recounts how digital art is a completely original and has elements of "controlled randomness" like dada art. I didn't know that computers were used to make art as early as the 1960's.  I thought that the 1990's or late 1980's gave birth to this medium. I thought that the art created with the primitive computers was very interesting, but I would have liked the introduction to go into more detail how they created the digital art.  In chapter one, the text displays not only how digital art can be used to make a visual impact, but how images usually not able to be juxtaposed, make a strong emotional impact, such as Ken-Gonzales Day. Additionally, I didn't know that digital scanners can make a much more detailed view than a camera. This is displayed in the moths by Joseph Scheer.Many of the art in Chapter one also involves other fields of study. Nancy Burson's Beauty Composites were actually discussed in my social psychology class to display how beauty is subjective and ideals of beauty change with every decade. Furthermore, William Latham's creations of artificial art forms combines digital art with biology.  Chapter one entices me to master photoshop and other means for digital art. Additionally this chapter expanded my knowledge of the uses of digital art, from artifical life-forms to abstract pictures, and informed me of the possible advances coming in our near future.