ABSTRACT
Having introduced the main issues concerning making things and teaching creative arts in the post-digital era in the previous chapter, this second chapter presents a foundation for understanding creative arts and art processes, from which making can be further discussed from a post-digital perspective. This is done by, firstly, studying making art and the role of art in life, where the purpose is to establish a general understanding of art that frames art processes in both real space and digital space as artistic space. And, secondly, by studying the role of materials in art processes in detail, followed by a study of the act of making with and without physical materials at hand. In closing, this chapter identifies the essential and non-essential differences between making in digital space and real space as artistic space, in terms of our connections to materials.
