Digital Art History

The Dawn of Digital Art, the Birth of a Digital Artist

I’m writing my history, my steps into the digital art world. Here are only a few words to present myself.

The Birth of a Digital Artist

I’ve made over 200 digital paintings — this is the way I like to call my images. My first was on an Amiga 500, in 1988. I created my first work with Turbo Silver, the Impulse software… now they call it Imagine.

“Sphere” was my first work, my first ray-tracing image — and it’s like a first love: I can’t forget it. A new era was beginning. “Abandoned Place” is my first art on the Amiga 4000.

Sphere (1991) — the first ray-tracing artwork by Lumini Mattia
“Sphere” — where it all began. Click it to read its story.
The story so far

This page is where the full history will live — from the late 1980s until today, the dawn of digital art as I lived it.

I’ll write the complete narrative here: the first machines, the software that changed everything, the long render nights, the community that grew around a brand-new medium. For now this is the introduction; the chapters are on their way.