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by Thomson-Jones, Katherine and Shelby Moser Thomson-Jones, Katherine and Shelby Moser, "The Philosophy of Digital Art", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2024 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.) Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy The philosophy of digital art is the philosophical study of art that crucially relies on computer processing in its production or presentation. There are many kinds of digital art, including digital cinema and video, digital photography and painting, electronic music, literary works generated by so-called “chatbots”, NFT art, net art, and video games. For the full range of digital art kinds, the aim is to identify their essential features, ground their proper appreciation, and situate our understanding of them in relation to pre-existing debates in aesthetics. This first-order inquiry cannot proceed without acknowledgment of the enormous interdisciplinary and popular interest in digital media. Claims are frequently mad...

By Christopher Brown Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design, Nottingham Trent University The Olympics have come full circle in 100 years: from Paris, back to Paris. But designing a successful host city logo has not become easier.    2024 Summer Olympics In 1913 Baron Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympic Games, created one of the most recognisable logos in the world. The symbolism of the five coloured interlocking rings, representing the participating continents and the “flags of all nations” united in sporting endeavour, is simply conveyed and easily grasped. A good logo communicates its message in an effective visual way and de Coubertin’s certainly achieves that. It has become the basis upon which logos for the Games are built. With the next Games in Paris in 2024, it’s worth looking at the first city to design its own Olympic logo . The 1924 Paris Games was represented by a simple line-drawn ship on a shield background with the words on top hard to read. Legend...