The influence of cultural and historical processes of the XX - early XXI centuries on the emergence of digital art
Art of the XX century - a turning point in the history of art. Globalization, the development of communications and the dissemination of digital technologies into the life of society have displaced the search for new things in art and culture. The speed of scientific and technological progress is reflected in the rapid expansion of art beyond artistic materials in order to find new means of self-expression. Despite the fact that digital art is a product of digital technologies that exists in virtual environment, the prerequisites for its origin appeared thanks to the works of conceptual artists, avant-garde artists and others even before the creation of the first computer. Scientific progress gave birth to photography, cinematography, the first personal computers and digitizers, led to the formation of digital directions in frames of traditional art, in particular - the emergence of digital fine art, where the artistic value is not material forms of works, but virtual ones, that do not have physical embodiment. For today, there are three stages in the emergence of digital art. The first of them is the prerequisites for it’s origin: the invention of photography, cinematography, the first personal computers, the search for new media in the visual arts. The second is the stage of formation - the active experiments of artists with digital technologies, the development of functionalities of graphic editors, the identification of new opportunities. The third stage is contemporary, characterized by the widespread introduction of digital art into the life of society, the development of new technologies, such as virtual and augmented reality.