The digital arts are a type of artistic craft that create a blank canvas for artists that can be filled with almost anything imaginable. [This type of artistry] completely breaks with the classical forms of artistic production. Objects cease to be physical and instead become ephemeral and dependent on the digital medium, in a plane in which fiction surpasses reality and where the laws of physics can be broken, if only in a simulated way.

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This type of art, in its immense complexity, is a reflection of humanity itself, and of how we have evolved and transformed our realities by combining our creative powers with the technologies now available at the tips of our fingers. Indeed, these artistic forms inundate our day-to-day lives: we are bombarded by hundreds of digital artistic expressions (photographs, videos, and video games, among others) every day. In this context, artists who use digital media as their means of expression can acquire much wider prominence than classical artists. Their output is usually more formalised and is highly valued; it also tends to be combined with the work of other artists to create joint pieces. Digital artists are highly trained—mostly in schools focussing on this specific field—and they usually specialise in one particular modality.

The digitisation of art has globalised access to content that, in the context of a crisis such as the ongoing [COVID-19 pandemic], permits the creation of small oases of freedom—both for the creators and the consumers of this content—despite the period of strict imposed confinement.