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F1CJ 34: Introduction to Digital Artform

F1CJ 34: Introduction to Digital Artform. Task 1 Research digital artform within contemporary art practice. Topics to be covered. Current practitioners Digital arts organisations International arts organisations Contexts of digital arts practice Definitions of digital arts.

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F1CJ 34: Introduction to Digital Artform

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  1. F1CJ 34: Introduction to Digital Artform Task 1 Research digital artform within contemporary art practice

  2. Topics to be covered • Current practitioners • Digital arts organisations • International arts organisations • Contexts of digital arts practice • Definitions of digital arts

  3. Digital Art • General term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process. • Since the 1970s, various names have been used to describe the process including computer art and multimedia art, and digital art is itself placed under the larger umbrella term new media art.

  4. Digital Art • The impact of digital technology has transformed activities such as painting, drawing, sculpture and music/sound art, while new forms, such as net art, digital installation art, and virtual reality, have become recognized artistic practices. • More generally the term digital artist is used to describe an artist who makes use of digital technologies in the production of art. • "digital art" is a term applied to contemporary art that uses the methods of mass production or digital media.

  5. Digital Art – Subject Areas • concepts of original digital art - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art • new media - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_media_art • net art - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net_art • sound or audio art - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_art • interactive art - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_art

  6. Current Practitioners - Bill Viola • http://www.billviola.com/ • His art deals with the themes of human consciousness and experience - birth, death, love, emotion and a kind of humanist spirituality. • Dualism - life and death, light and dark, stressed and calm, loud and quiet

  7. Current Practitioners - Carlos Amorales • Carlos Amorales • “Liquid Archive", a series of digital vector drawings and compositions in a variety of media • Uses black, red and grey throughout his work. • Images are usually inspired from nature

  8. Current Practitioners - Cory Arcangel • Creates drawing, music, video, performance video game mods. • Re-uses existing materials such as dancing stands, Photoshop gradients and YouTube videos to create new works of art. • Explores the relationship between technology and culture.

  9. Digital arts organisations • The Seer - http://www.theseer.info/directory/artsorganisations.html • Arts Council - http://www.artscouncil.org.uk/ • Axis - http://www.axisweb.org/ • FACT - http://www.fact.co.uk/projects/

  10. International arts organisations • Vision Forum - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Forum_(art_organisation) • IFACCA - http://www.ifacca.org/ • Digital Art Source - http://www.digitalartsource.com/pages/about.htm • LUX - http://www.lux.org.uk/ • Rhizome - http://rhizome.org/ • DAM - http://dam.org/home

  11. Contexts of digital arts practice • Basic history of the computer and computing in the arts • Theories and trends in media art and digital culture • The computer as a medium, tool, or subject matter, screening work from the web, video and film • Variety of forms (net art, digital video and audio, interactive works, animation, hypertext documents, etc.)

  12. Contexts of digital arts practice • Article 1 - http://www.dunkingbirdproductions.com/pages/article5.html • Article 2 - http://hyperart.com/lib/index.html • Article 3 - http://www.acmi.net.au/7E8A5C8E6F304A839116C3C74F81440C.htm • Article 4 - http://www.hawaii.edu/aln/cul.htm • Article 5 - http://www.hawaii.edu/aln/lit_imp.htm • Article 6 - http://www.humanities.uci.edu/mposter/writings/internet.html

  13. Definitions of digital arts • http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/digital+art • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_art • http://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/digital-art/

  14. Useful Links • http://www.mediascot.org/ • http://www.idmaa.org/about-idmaa/ • http://thespace.org/ • http://www.watermans.org.uk/exhibitions/exhibitions/international-festival-of-digital-art-2012.aspx • http://www.leedsdigitalfestival.com/ • http://www.transmediale.de/ • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Media_art_festivals • http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/warner/english122tg/bodylanguage.html • http://transcriptions.english.ucsb.edu/archive/courses/warner/english122tg/BladeRunner.htm

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