Computer artefact: the crucial element in artistic practice in digital art and culture

Abstract

The emergence of digital art and its various variants such as computer art and digital media art is discussed. As well as, how this form of artistic and cultural expression is being affirmed in a contemporaneity characterized by the digital technological revolution. It analyses the nature of the creation and enjoyment of digital art and culture, related artistic practices and how in these, the computer artefact plays a pivotal role. Examples of artefacts are presented in context, promoting their recension in the light of contemporary digital art and culture, while discussing some elements of an aesthetics of the computer artefacts.