BACKGROUND

Digital artists are developing new art forms within a rapidly evolving electronic tool environment. Jane Veeder will examine this environment and its underlying models of creative process as impacted by the entertainment economy and the information culture. She will trace the history of and recent democratization of 3D, outline the development and background of multimedia tools, and elucidate new trends, such as object oriented scripting environments for interactive media - and will project how all of this bears upon individual artists.