We selected works that approached artistic design and creation in original ways. We looked for work that would challenge our perspectives. We included art that was visually exciting or had a strong emotional content. We asked for works that could not have been created without the wide variety of computer tools that artists use today. As computer generated works, the art bears the mark of the media that assisted with its creation.
Some works are graphic displays of mathematical concepts.
In these, the computer has determined a distinctive appearance, a syntax, that makes the work easily recognizable as computer art. In other works, where the artist has used the tools for more traditional artistic intention, these marks are less obvious. In many of the interactive works the computer serves another function. By redefining the relationship of the viewer and artwork, the computer serves as a medium as well as a tool. Much of computer graphics work is collaborative, and here is one opportunity to consider the statement by a single artist.