New media art encompasses artworks created with emerging technologies like digital art, computer graphics, virtual art, and interactive art. It differentiates itself from traditional visual arts through its cultural objects and social interactions. New media art often involves participation between the artist and observer or among observers. The origins of new media art can be traced back to kinetic art in the early 20th century, but it began incorporating new technologies like video in the 1960s and expanded with computer graphics and the internet in later decades. New media art influences ideas around hypertext, databases, and networks to explore interactive and nonlinear narratives.