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Immersive digital art
What is it called
Where it came from
Where it's going
What is new media art
Screens, Code, & Museums
Immersive digital art — what you saw, and how to talk about bringing it home
You saw a room or a wall of moving image in a museum, a lobby, or a public space. The words that get you started are immersive digital art and digital art installation. This series teaches the sharper vocabulary next, then the practical questions — cost, public art, small museum — that decide whether anything happens.
I am an artist who makes this work. Opinions are marked as such. The terms, the institutional history, and the maintenance questions are not.
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Immersive digital art and digital art
installations — opens with search terms people actually use, teaches
generative art and new media art, closes with cost and civic process.
Also in this series
What is it called?
Video art, new media art, generative art, immersive, interactive, time-based media — which word to use in which room.
Where did it come from?
Artists were making rule-based and computer work by the 1960s. Useful when someone calls it a fad.