Digital Arts – Digital Literatures

Abstract

Multimedia arts is the general name of art practices using digital technologies of the second half of the century. There are many derivatives such as computer art, software art, virtual art, interactive art, net art and video art. These were first called digital arts in the late 1980s; Then, in the early 2000s, the expression computer arts is preferred because of the role of the computer in the production of these arts. Later, with the thought that these arts are related to the use of different media environments, the naming of multimedia arts or new media arts has become widespread. Electronic literature is any kind of literature produced in and for digital media. It consists of genres such as e-books, hypertext and hyperpoems, animated poems presented in graphic forms, interactive emails, SMS literature, blog novels, algorithmic poems. In this study, the relationship between new artistic genres, literary expression forms and tools, which entered human life with the rise of computer technologies, but faced the resistance of traditional art and literature circles for a long time, will be tried to be discussed with theoretical and practical aspects. This kind of arts, since computers are the rulers of the postmodern world, and everyone's most private information is collected in databases; then, art must find a place for itself in this world. Outstanding social attitude; it has an ideology that favors the local and ethnic, hybridity and identity problems. However, this attitude has not yet become a sociopolitical consciousness; It could not go beyond a social activism using the interactive side of the media.