Academic Sessions: Glasgow 2010
AAH Annual Conference 2010
15 - 17 April, University of Glasgow
Digital Continuities: From the History of Digital Art to Contemporary Transmedial Practices
Sessions Convenors:
Nick Lambert, School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media, Birkbeck, University of London, n.lambert@bbk.ac.uk
Over the past two decades, a distinct history of digital art has emerged from the general narrative of postwar Art and Technology, with its own movements, controversies and currents. During the same time period, a variety of New Media, intermedia and transmedial practices have gained recognition across a broader constituency than historic ‘computer art’ ever had. To some degree, the growth of New Media is disconnected from the earlier iterations of Computer Art but motivated by similar concerns stemming from the artistic discovery of the digital medium.
Our session will examine this evolution of digital arforms into a range of diverse manifestations across the cultural sphere. Is it purely a case of technological expediency, stemming from the growth of digital imaging and virtual reality? To what extent should we look for a digital-specific artform, or should we accept that artists from a variety of practices are now working with digital as they would with any other tool or medium? And to what extent does it fall within the rubric of Art History, or does it instead represent the expansion of the field into looking at non-art imagery?
Speakers:
Charlie Gere (Lancaster University)
Ruskin, Arts and Crafts, and new media art
Charlotte Frost (Birkbeck, University of London)
Internet Art History 2.0
Jeremy Pilcher, (Lancaster University)
Network Art Unbound
Elaine Speight (Birkbeck, University of London)
Producing the local: web 2.0 as a placemaking tool for socially engaged artists.
Perla Innocenti (University of Glasgow)
Evolution and preservation of digital art: case studies from ZKM and AEC
Ernest Edmonds (University of Technology, Sydney)
Unifying Image and Sound in a Synaesthetic Whole
Jeremy Gardiner (Birkbeck, University of London)
Digital Craftsmanship – How artists are making physical things from virtual data
Ingrid Holzl (McGill University)
Hybrid Images