Digital Art: Its Arts and Science

Book info: Digital Art: Its Arts and Science (Paperback, 528 pages) – Pearson, 2009. Language: English.

For introductory digital media courses that originate in the art department or communication department

Digital media courses arise in a variety of contexts ― Computer Science, Art, Communication. This innovative series makes it easy for instructors and students to learn the concepts of digital media from whichever perspective they choose. Digital Art: Its Art and Science explores the application of art and design principles in the digital realm. It explains some of the necessary technical details of digital media that can help art students make better technical decisions when using their tools for creative purposes. Although the material is technical, it emphasizes the elements of art and design.

Instructor Resources:

• Community Website
• Downloadable Solutions

Student Resources:

• Active Book (e-book version)

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Yue-Ling Wong is the author for two of the proposed books in the Digital Media Series, A Primer of Digital Media and The Art of Digital Media. She holds a joint faculty position in the Computer Science and Art Departments at Wake Forest University as Lecturer in Digital Media. She has taught the Digital Media course of Computer Science Department, designed the multimedia labs for Computer Science 101 (a course for non-computer science majors), team-taught Art Department's Digital Art I, II and III, and taught courses in 3-D Modeling and Animation, and Advanced Web Programming. She is also designing and teaching a new introductory computer programming course using the visual approaches of interactive multimedia programming, game programming, and graphic animation. Dr. Wong has ten years of experience in developing interactive multimedia instructional material for both science and non-science disciplines. Her educational software package entitled Atomic Orbitals CD and published in 1997 by Jones and Bartlett Publishers was a finalist of the NewMedia magazine INVISION '97 award in the educational category.