Digital Creativity

Cynde Reid Gustafson wrote:
From: "Cynde Reid Gustafson" <nj@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Digital Creativity 
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 21:59:25 -0500

Digital Creativity

http://www.szp.swets.nl/szp/journals/dc.htm

New technologies give us the ability to represent so many different kinds of
object in the same standard digital format (text, layout, image, sound, 3D
object, moving image, etc.). They also provide us with the mechanisms to
capture, store, manipulate and output these representations to produce
objects we can experience through our senses. This unity of underlying
representational form and technological processing provides the foundations
of a convergence.

Art & design is about making things through the application of human skill
and the use of tools. When we use computers, making things is still a matter
of the physical manipulation of materials and a human uncertainty of
execution. Whilst embracing the new, Digital Creativity does not intend to
discard those traditional elements of art and design practices which not
only make them distinct but are also so important to take forward as
positive contributions to the development of these new technologies.

Digital Creativity will publish peer-reviewed articles concerned with the
development of technologies of relevance to those working in different
digital media, with their relationship to traditional practices of art and
design, and to the relationship of all these to education. Articles in the
journal will explain new research and its findings but also make accessible
related, interdisciplinary fields.

Ebsco subscribers have access to full-text articles at
http://www-uk.ebsco.com/online/direct.asp?JournalID=103100.

Editor: Roy Ascott
Email: Roy_Ascott@compuserve.com