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Advanced technology essay Technological advances have helped transform the practices of artists. The artists of the modern Information Age have a wider audience than ever before, and the tools offered by the rapid advances of information technologies will allow them to explore as well as create new forms of artistic expression. Computers have enabled artists to experiment with interactivity and multimedia just as the re-discovered knowledge of the Renaissance enabled DaVinci to experiment with pastel and mural preparation. There are many historical similarities between the emergence of art in our modern times and the emergence of new forms of art in previous eras. When photography was first introduced, artists tried to force their old ways of thought onto the new medium. They saw photography as "drawing with light" and applied principles of painting to photography. It took many years for artists to learn the new language of photography, which was very different from the old language of painting. The artists of today are making the first hesitant ste