Introduction

why transdisciplinary digital art?

Steve Gibson

pp. 1-2

in: Randy Adams, Steve Gibson, Stefan Müller Arisona (eds), Transdisciplinary digital art. sound, vision and the new screen, Berlin, Springer, 2008

Abstract

We have entitled this volume Transdisciplinary Digital Art to distinguish it from the older term Interdisciplinary Art. Interdisciplinarity implies a certain level of detachment across the mediums: the artist, the engineer, the musician and the dancer may collaborate with each other but in much interdisciplinary work there is a sense that they are separate entities performing their own expert functions without more thorough knowledge of the other's technical or artistic processes.