Is multimedia legit?

As an Information Technology major in KOGOD I am constantly coming up against the question, "Where do you draw the line between IT and non-IT business"? I want to re-pose that question for this class as, "Where does one draw the line between digital art and computer tools?"

The answer I think depends highly on one's perspective. A computer certainly has a number of programs ranging from video games to script editors, from doing your taxes to organizing your favorite music. How you use these programs can certainly affect whether they are considered capable of producing art. I think that at this point the specific art form viewed from a computer is limited to programs that produce visual or audio media formats. Whether using photoshop, finalcut, flash, or something that creates machinima through videogames and other graphical engines, the final product is multimedia, limited to a combination of existing separate media types found outside of the digital world.

The key factor is that computers enable the combination of media with ease.

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