Criticisms of digital art: foundations and theoretical limits

This article attempts a critical examination of the actual digital art production, posing key questions about its artistic value inside contemporary esthetic discourse, including relationships with system. Considering properties numeric language, two important topics will be discussed: dialectic artwork-process and meaning multimedia. With support up-to-date computational creativity theories evidences experimental art, treacherous influence romantic aesthetic paradigm traditional system tested. As possible solution, author suggests rethinking components software as meta-medium, such information assets, algorithms, code textual properties, interactivity interfaces. In conclusions it stressed that immateriality is paramount to avoid misunderstandings open new fields research. For instance, natural computation, ethnomathematics ethnocomputing are valuable social educational contents meanings could substantially improve art.