Digital Art TechnologyTechnology is constantly developing and changing our lifestyles. It makes life sometimes easier and more interesting too. When we thought of art in the past, we generally didn't think of computers and technology. Today, thanks to modern technology, the digital age is discovering many ways to create amazing works of art through computer tools and software. Art is now created digitally and can look incredible to the modern eye. Digital art technology is, in some ways, an art form that can be built on a computer model and still represents an artist's interpretation, but in a mechanical way. ÒAs early as 1912, Futurists were projecting machine-driven moving sculptures, in which the machine was incorporated into the body of the work itself. Both movements advocated the artist as user of technology and recognized the machine as art, ideas that would slowly make their way into the artistic mainstream in time for the arrival of electronic digital technology. » (55 years old, Wolf) It was the beginning of years and years of transition to artistic technology. It was a slow transition as the equipment sometimes malfunctioned at art exhibitions and the technology needed to be further developed sufficiently. Inventions that began over 40 years ago gave birth to digital art technology. In 1963, an interactive computer graphics program, called Sketchpad, was created by Ivan E. Sutherland. This facilitated the collaboration of drawing and computing. “In the mid-1970s and throughout the 1980s, computer graphics improved dramatically and a new type of imagery became possible: visualizations of complex mathematical functions, three-dimensional graphs, and no artis fractal images. ..... middle of paper. .....eating classical art has been and will continue to be a portal for artists to create masterpieces.Works Cited1. Software: Jasc Paint Shop Pro 8 ©copyright 1996-2003, Amazon.com Inc. www.amazon.com2. Software: Adobe Photoshop Element 2.0 © copyright 1996-2003, Amazon.com Inc. www.amazon.com3. Software: Corel Painter 8 © copyright 1996-2003, Amazon.com Inc.www.amazon.com4. Lieser, Wolfgang, Museum of Digital Art © copyright 1993-2003 Museum of Digital Art www.DAM.org5. Wolf, Mark JP, Abstracting Reality © copyright 2000 University Press of America, ¨ Inc. Lanham, Maryland6. Pickover, Clifford A., Visions of the Future © copyright1994 St MartinÕs Press, Inc. New York, NY7. Wilkens, Glen Painting with Pixels © copyright 1999 Sterling Publishing Co., Inc New York, NY