Even the online environment that people use to communicate utilizing their avatar ( such as " Second Life " ) is claimed to be visual art as it is an ever - changing visually stimulating entity created and manipulated by the users . These are all parts of new media art . " New media art encompasses the use of digital technologies and the Internet as media , but new media art is more than these . It is both a hybrid production and an interplay between art , technology , and humans ... " ( Liao , 200 .

Question: what may happen if art is removed from the avatar media art ?
Answer: It eliminates the use of use of digital technologiesIt would no longer have its aesthetic appealing visualIt would still be an hybrid productionIt would remain its stimulating entity