Consider the way it occupies space. Because two-dimensional mediums often ask us to look through onto another world, there is a certain amount of distance created between the viewer and the subjects being viewed. While in this viewer mode, we often feel like something of a voyeur, in that we can see the subjects, although they cannot see us. Sculpture removes any sense of distance from between us and the image being viewed. It can see us just as easily as we can see it.
Digital media looks like photography in most respects.
The detail, format, and feel of the print often leads us to mistake one for the other. When we try to approach digital art as a form of photography, another dynamic becomes very clear to us, fundamentally affecting the way we look at digital art. I talked about photography being the official recorder of our life and times. Almost from it s inception, photographs were considered as true reflections of reality. They were admissible as evidence in a court of law, considered valid forms of identification, and printed in the newspapers as proof that events actually happened.