Technology-based art explores new avenues of artistic expression using modern electronic technologies like digital imaging and the internet. Artists in the 21st century are free from past restrictions and create works in various styles using diverse media such as computer-generated art, digital photography, digital paintings, videos, and video games. These new forms of art signify our current age of consumerism and use technologies like cellular phones, computers, and digital tools to produce and share artistic works.

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2. Artist of the 21st century explored other possible venues for expression to
affect and satisfy the preferences of the consumers and workers in media,
technology, communication and arts. These venues include the latest electronic
technologies, such as digital imaging, and internet. Painting material and processes
are envisioned to express new concepts by mixing media and forms to serve
concepts and purposes.
Arts in 21st century are free from restrictions and taboos imposed in early
times. Important works of art continued to be made in a wide variety of styles and
aesthetic temperaments.
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Computer, internet art hard edge paintings, geometric
hyperrealism, photo realism, shaped canvass painting, and so forth are
abstraction,
some of the
few media used by artists to produced art-art that has come to signify the age of
consumerism.

3. A. Cellular Phones
Cellular phones revolutionized the world as we know it. They no longer function as
communication devices to reach our relatives and friends from far away or as away to
receive an immediate response to a query. Today, cellular phones have become a means of
personal expression and artistic creativity.
Cellular phone cameras offer a variety of effects similar to digital cameras that allow
also people to edit their images to suit their preferences. The mobility of cellular phone
coupled with other functions that make them a popular means to create a spontaneous
artistic expressions.
Phone arts is an international collaborative experiment that required the use of the
cellular phone as the medium to create unique compositions. It explores and challenges the
artist’s use of cellular phone’s limitations to create graphic illustrations and designs.
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4. Cellular Phones Photography
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5. B. Computer –generated Images
Computer-generated art is a part of digital art that uses digital technology in any of the
following:
1. Product – means the final form is digital in nature
2. Process – means the process of creation is digital technology
3. Subject – means the digital technology control depicting machine
Computer-generated Imaging or DGI is the art of creating images in art, printed media, video
games, films, animation, television programs, commercial and simulators with the aid of
computer graphics with no direct human control. It usually refers to computer-aided art
wherein the computer is used as a too controlled by the artist using Photoshop to create
images, scenes, or special effects in film and television. Computer animation is a dynamic CGI
rendered as a movie.
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6. Computer –generated Images
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9. C. Digital Photography
Digital photography uses electronic sensor of light or other electromagnetic energy to
capture an image which is stored and digitized to a computer for digital processing or
digital printing. Digital photographs are printed, stored, manipulated, transmitted,
displayed, and archived using digital computer techniques, without any chemical
processing.
The process involve the use of cameras, computers, and other tools and equipment.
Some of these are computer manipulation, light setting, digital ICE or digital image
correction and enhancement, digital printing, and digital circulation.
Photo retouching is a type of manipulation, used in modeling and acting industries where
photos are retouched to correct or perfect shots, with refinement, such as removing
blemishes or moles, brightening eyes, whitening teeth, and smoothing wrinkles. Common
types of photo retouching include lighting filters, contrast enhancement, brightness,
sharpness, and various other tuning adjustments. Professionals who manipulate images
are referred to as digital artists, graphic artist, graphic designers, and photo editors.
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10. Digital Photography
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11. Photo Retouching
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12. D. Digital Paintings and ImagingVideos-TV and Film
Digital painting is an emerging art form wherein artists create art objects digitally. It
also refers to a technique in making digital art using the computer. Digital painters use
painting techniques to create the digital painting directly on the computer, using a digitize
tablet and stylus, and software. Digital painting programs try to mimic the use of physical
media through various brushes and pain effects that are digitally styled to represent the
traditional style like oils, acrylics, pastels, charcoal, pen, and even media such as airbrushing.
Digital Video and Imaging
Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting,
and display of moving visual media. Videos greatly vary in the resolution of the display and
refresh rate. They can be carried on a variety of media, including radio broadcast, tapes,
DVDs, computer files, and so forth. Some examples of digital video content are TV shows and
films.
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13. Digital Paintings and Imaging
Videos
Digital Painting by Ade Olufeko 13

14. E.Video Games
Video games are various interactive games played by electronically
manipulating images produced by a computer program on a screen using a
specialized electronic gaming device, computer, or mobile device. Players
interact with the objects displayed on the screen for entertainment. These
games ushered in the first commercial arcade video game, Computer Space”
by Nutting Associates introduced in 1971. Whereas, the first successful
commercial arcade video game was “Pong” introduced by Atari in 1972.
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