Digital art and women

Art history can also be considered the history of artists' quest for new narrative opportunities. New narrative possibilities not only enhance the artist's expression techniques, but also radically change the relationship between the recipient of art, the way art works are produced, and the way art works are exhibited. Digital arts points to a radical transformation involving all the art-related processes such as making art, buying, exhibiting, purchasing, etc., rather than being a new artistic movement in light of the rapid social transformation we experience, new (digital) technologies that mark every aspect of life and its broad effects on human life. Each technological process creates generations born in this process that understand the blessings of technology and reshaped society and its needs with different expectations, different world views, different needs and different characteristics compared to previous generations. Thus, having incomparable level of awareness of their needs and expectations, and the level of adaptation to new technologies and developments, digital natives that understand and live this era much better than previous generations have emerged. Since ancient times, only a small number of women have been counted as the greatest artists. Even then, they were often described as unusually talented women who overcame the limitations of their gender in order to excel in what was believed to be a masculine field. For centuries, women were systematically excluded from the records of art history. But beginning in the 20th century, things began to change not only for women artists, but for women across the domestic and public spheres. A new women's movement that emphasizes the advocacy of equal rights, organizations dedicated to women's interests, and a new generation of female professionals and artists have begun to change the social structure traditionally directed by men around the world. In the late 20th century, with the feminist movement, women were more involved in the art world. This emergence as both an art buyer/audience/collector and an artist has relied on the growing role of women in both art history discourse and artistic production. It can be said that women are more fortunate about access to digital technologies than previous social milestones. Thanks to years of struggle and social transformation women artists enjoy a far progressed point compared to such periods of time when they could not work with a live model, had access to only a limited education or no education at all, and when woman and artist words could not be considered together. Keywords: Digital art, Women artists, Feminist art history, Digital native, Printmaking