Prepared and presented by Billur Aktürk, in the program "What's Happening in Life" dated 21.11.2021, the title of "New Form of Art: Digital Art" was evaluated together with painter and academician Ahmet Özel, digital artist Hakan Yılmaz and art critic - writer Hülya Küpçüoğlu. How did artworks change with the 'Digital Revolution'? Is digital art art? How fun can it be to have a hologram of paintings by famous masters in the living room of your home? Together they found answers to questions such as:
In the continuation of the program, which started with the answer of artist Hakan Yılmaz to the question "What is Digital Art?", artist and academician Hülya Küpçüoğlu shared her views on the history of digital evolution and how it has deeply affected and shaped our lives since the 90s. Saying that digital art has already been made since the 90s, Küpçüoğlu stated that today's interest in the world of NFT makes digital works more visible.
Dr. Instructor Member Ahmet Özel, similarly, stated that we have been familiar with the concept of digital art for a long time, since the internet came into our lives in the 90s. manipulated by the computer; Mentioning that everything that can be done on a computer is in the field of digital art, Özel said that while technology was a technique at first, it later turned into an independent form. Özel stated that we have observed together that the concept of digital art has now been added as well as areas such as painting, sculpture and architecture that come to mind when visual arts are mentioned. Özel said that with the spread of digital art, a large capital has been created and many more channels have come to the fore for the works to reach the audience. Special, about NFT; Manipulating the desire to own anything rather than a work of art because of the 'feeling of ownership' imposed by the 21st century; For this reason, he stated that he approached NFT with question marks. Stating that he sees NFT as a stock market, Özel stated that he sees NFT as a sector and a formation based on supply-demand relationship rather than evaluating digital art together with NFT.
