About working with and experiencing digital visual art

About working with and experiencing (digital) visual art

As a digital creator, I create computer-generated artworks.

Today, artificial intelligence (AI) provides me with many new and previously unimaginable opportunities to create both original and unique artworks with the computer. I am often asked: But is it art? There are still quite a few people - including traditional artists - who do not recognize works created with artificial intelligence as "real art" - whatever the definition of that may be - simply because a machine is involved in the process.

The same skepticism was directed at the camera in its time, but we have long recognized that art can be created with the camera as a tool. You decide whether what you see is art! Art requires an artist who masters techniques, materials, forms of expression, etc. to visually describe and express fragments and wholes of life in, for example, visual art. This must of course be done in a way that makes the work relevant, valuable, and authentic. Is the image emotional, frightening, touching, beautiful, or calming? Perhaps even decorative?

Simply put: Art requires that there is an artist involved in the process of creating the artwork. What matters is not which tools have been used in the creative process - brush or processor, canvas or camera.

       What matters is what feelings and experiences the artist can evoke in the viewer.

It is your own taste and the experience of the artwork that is essential and decisive. Trust your own taste and the feelings and thoughts the work activates in you. If the image gives you experiences that touch or move you, then the artwork may have significant meaning for you. Fortunately, art is not an exact science and it is also completely impossible to put it into a formula.

                                                     Art is what the eye sees - and the heart feels