Searching the Traces of Dialogical Aesthetics in Digital Art

Digital Technology has dramatically changed the way human beings communicate. It has made distance communication possible and changed our world into a ‘Global Village’. Besides, it has influenced art experiences in a dramatical way. Like other forms of information, art is also able to reach wider audiences in all parts of the world, thus creating an effective cross-cultural communication. Throughout its history, art has always been the basis for a dialogue. However, it is the digital art which has introduced the dialogical principles in visual arts. The aim of this article is to analyze digital arts from a dialogical perspective. Focusing mainly on Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin’s dialogic philosophy, the article aims to present how the trajectories of digital art and dialogical aesthetics intersect. The article proposes that although interactive art and dialogical art share many characteristics in common, all interactive digital art is not dialogic; therefore, the focus of this article will be on digital arts which use telecommunication media as a means of dialogic meaning production