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The cyber expansion of art

Nowadays, cyberart is the most common type of art that we usually find around us, and most people have heard about them at least once,for example, Nfts are a digital form of art that is everywhere, and everyone can have the access to see. and these arts have marked the concept of art, to better. Those arts are digital forms of art which you can do it out of a photography and also can be used as a marketable product., and for those reasons, We can say, cyberart is expanding the art “universe”

Art appeared at first as drawings only, in prehistory, people used to draw animals and experiences in the cave walls, for the people who consider art as paintings of things related, these drawings are art. When writing appeared, people used paintings and drawings as a form of communication, they weren’t made with the purpose of those to be necessarily arts, because they were made for this, communication and symbols. In the middle age, arts were made to represent the religious figures of catholicism, and they weren't meant to look realistic, they were only made to be considered symbols. In the renaissance and the modern age, artworks were starting to look closer to reality, because they were then made more mathematically and rationally, and started making more scientific sense , so they were very successful during that time.

In the last century, people introduced digital or machine made arts, also known as cyberart, they were originally made by printers and by a machine named AARON, and later they were made by computer software without using any material to do the art itself. In the last few decades, people can now make animated artworks and they are now able to transform simple digital “paintings” or “drawings” into a marketable token and it can be worth millions of dollars.

Drawings are the most common type of art that we can see around us nowadays, because they are the simplest form of art known, it is more usual for people to draw than for people to paint or to produce a sculpture. It is that simple because someone can simply grab a paper and a pencil then just touch the pencil in the paper, and then it can be called a drawing. Comparing to painting for example, those necessarily need some ink and a painting brush for it to be considered painting, and those have to be a little similar to other artworks, this makes painting a little more complicated than drawing. (Paintings are an example to compare to drawings)

Just like art, did drawings change over time, but not everyone considers every drawing an artwork, and vice versa. In that case, we can say that the difference between the history of drawing and the history of art, was how arts were made and the purpose behind their production of the drawing or art. Artworks can be made in a different form that make them not able to be considered drawings, and drawings have a lack of attention enough to not to be considered art.

Cyber art is a new form of producing art is one of the reasons why I think artwork is expanding the art “universe”. For some people, when they think of art usually do they think about a picture in a museum or maybe a drawing or a sculpture, they usually have the modern thinking about artworks, they don’t usually think about a digital art. When we say digital art, it looks new, because we didn't know about digital arts before. And when we ask people how to produce an artwork, they usually answer that they need a piece of paper or somewhere to paint it, and about a painting. People may think about some other types of art such as music or dancing. What if we could do this inside a computer, or maybe a machine can do it for us instead of ourselves.

The second reason why cyberart is some kind of enlargement to the “world of arts”, is that it can be done more creatively. An regular art is more static and usually is similar to other artworks at some point, but in cyberart, there a bigger variety of digital resources, for example, the art can be “moving”, or it can a set of arts that can “show up” one after another, and that make the digital artist to be more creative, but much easier is it to artist to crib from others.

The last reason why cyberart is making that type of “expansion”, is related to people’s point of view about the artworks it self, the criticism of the digital arts is much wider than the modern art’s criticism, because the modern art’s had more of an specific purpose, and that’s what the criticism in that time wanted to see, and we don’t have that purpose now, at that applies for cyber art as well. As we can see, the modern arts were similar one to the other at some point, but with digital arts and nfts, their content is completely different.

The concept of cyberart has changed arts forever and broadened the variations of artworks. Unlike physical arts, in some digital arts, we don't need physical materials to produce it, and in some occasions, we people don’t need to do the art itself, some artificial intelligence and some machines like AARON can do them for us. Also there is a larger variation of artworks between the cyberarts than between regular artworks, we can find animated arts or arts that are a bunch of images that are shown one after the other, making it possible for artists to be more creative to do their artwork. And when we take a look at the digital artworks, we now have more aspects to think about the digital artwork, for example, how was it made, and if the art is animated, we may think about the quality of the animation.

Introducing one think that was introduced more than hundreds of years ago to nowadays technology can mostly or completely change the concept of the thing.