Kev, I’ve shown work in exhibitions next to digital art that was printed. How else can this medium be displayed, but in printed form?

I don’t understand. If the work is original, how it arrived on the paper is incidental isn’t it? Some very famous art has made its way into our Galleries and museums and those pieces have been developed onto photo paper. Is that really any different?

In my experience, more and more art shows are accepting digital art. My local art group does limit it to art that does not include photo manipulation, because it does not accept photography. Prints are accepted since providing monitors and electricity isn’t always a practical solution. You can ask the artists to sign an agreement that additional prints will never be made, but do you ask painters to sign an agreement that their traditional work hasn’t been digitized and that prints will not be made in the future?
Giclee Prints, when framed and mounted under glass and NOT hung in direct sunlight is expected to last hundreds of years. Other natural media, depends on the quality of the paint that is used and the use of certain fugitive colors.

Elaine, you’re so right. You summed it up well. Thanks
i am a Digital integrative Fine Art artist/ new Age media artist, living in Mumbai, india.
This is a battle i am constantly fighting, trying to tell the gallerists that the original is in the form of a soft copy and once its printed, it becomes an original hard copy.
Now if i choose to print it more than once, I have to declare it before i make my first sale. Thats only fair to my first buyer. So i tell them I make 3-5 prints of each of my works and i stick to it.
As for the pricing, i have had discussions with fellow artists across many platforms, especially regarding how they price their work if they are making multiple prints.
The interesting thing to note is, one said that he charges a certain amount for the first print but goes on hiking up the price with each consecutive print… the higher the demand, the costlier it gets.
While another said that the first copy should be priced higher and the consecutive ones, lower, since the buyers who come later are getting a second print and so on.
As for me, I charge the same amount for all the prints.

Let me ask you this: How do you deal with photography? Is not all photography based on prints of their work, yet considered original?