The Role of Technology in the Divergence Process From Real Object in the Artwork and the Digital Art Object

Abstract

The art object has constantly changed from past to present. This change has affected all branches of plastic arts. The art object first existed as an object in the field of illusion, then transformed into a real object that we can touch and perceive, and today it has evolved into a completely virtual digital object. In this study, it is aimed to explain how the digital art object is reached phase by phase and how the productions that are referred to as digital art objects are produced today by touching on the important points in the journey of the art object. In the introduction, the historical process and important events and discoveries such as the camera that enables the change of the art object are briefly mentioned. In the section of the existence of the art object, digital image formation, reproducibility, space and art object independent from the real object are emphasized. With the findings obtained, it is explained that the process is in a successive progression, that technological developments directly affect and change today's art, and that this situation forms the basis of the future art object. On this basis, it is explained that the digital art object produced by computers creates a new reality, making nature, matter, color and form a virtual without borders. In the section Crypto Art and NFT, definitions of the new technology are made and how crypto art is produced is explained. At this point, the transformation of the art object continues with the creation of digital artworks called NFT and only in the virtual space. For this reason, it has been concluded that the future of the Art object will be independent from the real object and the number of virtual universes called metaverse will increase and people will now live in these universes and produce art. Depending on the result, the idea has emerged that technology determines not only the cause but also the result for the development.