ARTC 2010 Section 3 Intro to Digital Arts

WWII hosted the first computers directing artillery fire with their computations of battlefields etc. Originally computers were a tool used only by the government for narrow purposes: Experiments, Mathematical Informational Tool, Quandary, Etc. Soon they were used to transmit information from one place to another in seconds, and later they were introduced into the art world. However it was the creation of the personal computer that made it a dominant medium in the art world. Many people saw the computer as a fantasy dream world where anything was possible, so they worked at making their wildest dreams come true through it. This view is completely different from the original view of the computer, which was as tool to achieve an end in the real world.