wiedha414’s Digital Art History Class Blog
Hello readers!
So I will address this on the “About” page as well, but I suppose I should start this post by stating that I’ve made this blog for the purpose of making it a collected archive of what my Digital Art History at LSU discusses. It’s here to extend our discussions further than just the confines of our classroom into the infinite reach of the Internet.
Therefore, feel free to comment on everything or anything that I post here! Input is crucial to the nature of a discussion and will be highly appreciated! 
You can refer back to the blog of my entire class which we view practically every meeting here:
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The main focus of this course is New Media Art and its expansive possibilities.
What is New Media Art?
Well, it can be defined as the art genre that encompasses artworks created with new media technologies like computer graphics, computer animation, the Internet, interactive technologies, robotics, biotechnologies, etc.
It’s a very young art form and it’s still changing and growing with every new technological leap and discovery. You will probably see me post here some very interesting concepts you’d never otherwise see in the art world.
To start things off, I want to bring this to the discussion table:
If interactivity is an aesthetic trait of new media art, it can encompass a lot of things you may encounter every day on the Internet. Take the website, YouTube for example. People post videos of all kinds of things all the time that stimulates an entire spectrum of reactions from the viewers. We have people posting tv shows and movie clips, personal video journals, comedic skits, creative observations, and artistic scenarios, every few seconds.
Take this video for example:
Then we have people interactively commenting and discussing those videos. It’s the very definition of interactivity. Therefore, are websites like YouTube–or even WordPress–examples of new media art?
I’d like to think so. Share your thoughts. 
