Cyberarts

Cyberarts or cyberart refers to the class of art produced with the help of computer software and hardware; often with an interactive or multimedia aspect. It can also refer to art produced through a process, any one of whose steps was influenced by such software or hardware.

This term is vague and relatively new; nevertheless much of the work described by this term is rarely described any other way. For instance, a common type of cyberart which is produced programmatically by applying a set of design rules to a natural or preexisting process. A program could produce a few million such 'works of art' in a minute.

See also

• Digital art, computer art, Internet art, electronic art
• electronica, techno
• Ars Electronica, Boston Cyberarts Festival

References

• Cybernet glossary online
• April 1999 essay by a skeptical Christopher Green on the topic of cyberart