Coded Communication: Digital Senses and Aesthetics, Merging Art and Life

Jonathan P. Bowen, Tula Giannini, Gareth Polmeer
2017 EVA London 2017  
This one-day symposium framed several central questions in digital practice and digital theory, examining historical and contemporary themes across art, science and the humanities. Art has been transformed by the digital age, changing the tools and processes of practice, moving to digital expressions and digital seeing. These changes are balanced by the recurrent questions of the human condition, and of the ways that art both defines and transcends its time. In what ways does digital art
more » ... the social, cultural and historical debates of this time, without being simply determined by its technologies? And how can emergent disciplines around digital aesthetics and the digital humanities converse with the work of artists, innovators and technologists? In what ways does the new digital palette afforded by contemporary media open new ways of seeing, sensing and understanding the world? The symposium organisers invited a range of artists and theorists to discuss these themes, framed in the broader contexts of electronic visualisation and digital art of the EVA London conference. Digital aesthetics. Digital art. Digital culture. Digital humanities. Digitalism. Information on the keynote speakers and abstracts for all the talks are included in the following section. PROGRAMME Abstract: The UK's national museum of art and design acquired its first computer-generated images as long ago as 1969. The V&A's computational art collection now includes some 1,500 prints, drawings, photographs and born-digital works, created from the 1960s to the present day (Beddard & Dodds 2013). I outline some of the issues involved in acquiring, maintaining and displaying a diverse range of artworks created with code.
doi:10.14236/ewic/eva2017.1 dblp:conf/eva/BowenGP17 fatcat:otlbzgfpjvaehpavspdkmbutny