The_Effect_Of_Computers_On_Artists_And_Their_Work.

The Effect Of Computers On Artists And Their Work. Thirty years ago left and right brained people across the globe would have had a very skeptical response to the idea of computers and their involvement in our every day lives. Who would have ever thought that the combination of plastic, circuit boards and wiring would be the heart and soul of organizing, documenting and convieniencing people’s lives' Most skeptical of all might have been the members of the art community, whose lives have been forever changed by computers in both an actual and a philosophical sense. Computers have proven to be beneficial to artists and their work, both as a tool creating endless new possibilities, and as an organizational tool for the business aspect. As far back through the documented times of our society that we look, people have always argued the definition of art. Is the existence and quality of art determined by the creator' The viewer' Is there such a set definition' Thousands of years have passed without an agreeable concrete answer to that question. George Berkeley (1685 – 1753), a philosophical idealist, once said, “…how can any determinate, material objects be properly represented or painted forth by art, artists, work, computer, writing, digital, computers, one, people, now, new, form, artist, traditional, often, says, pehme, even, digitally, been, although, writer, software, process, photographer, own, others, krause, images, hand, created, create, word, using, time