The Holt-Russell Gallery opened with a new genre, digital art, Oct. 10.
Professor of Art Walt Bailey said the show is called Binary Articulation and is part of a larger showing formerly exhibited at the Spiva Arts Center in Joplin, Mo. He said it is an innovative display because digital imaging is a new art form that is still developing, and to some people, not a true art form.
Bailey said the artists of the collection are trying to show the viability of the genre.
“They’re insisting digital imaging has potential that makes it a new art form,” he said. “They are not photographs, and they’re not paintings.”
Senior Molly Ediger liked the variety of the pieces.
“It touched on a lot of aspects of different things you could do with digital photography,” she said.
The collection was put together by Rhona Shand, assistant professor of art at Pittsburg State University.
“The art is a collection of people I’ve run across from around the world that are very innovative.”
Shand said students can learn important lessons from the digital art.
“Anything’s possible,” she said. “There’s not limitations on art unless you place them there.”