Abstract

The change in the systems for production of art that result from the use of digital media establishes a modification in the processes for the creation of images. At present, different types of images coexist, distinguishing themselves in view of their ontological principles of material generation. Those are: (1) first generation images, meaning images of artisanal and unique character; (2) second generation images, the technical images of reproducibility: gravure, photography, cinema, video; (3) third generation images, the technological images, made by computer or photonics with the help of numeric or treatment programs and without the help of external references.