Task 1

Research digital artform within contemporary art practice

F1CJ 34: Introduction to Digital Artform

Current practitionersDigital arts organisationsInternational arts organisationsContexts of digital arts practiceDefinitions of digital arts

Topics to be covered

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.

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.

Digital Art

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_artsound or audio art - http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_artinteractive art - http://

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interactive_art

Digital Art – Subject Areas

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

Current Practitioners - Bill Viola

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

Current Practitioners - Carlos Amorales

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.

Current Practitioners - Cory Arcangel

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/

Digital 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.htmLUX - http://www.lux.org.uk/Rhizome - http://rhizome.org/DAM - http://dam.org/home

International arts organisations

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.)

Contexts of digital arts practice

Article 1 - http://www.dunkingbirdproductions.com/pages/article5.html

Article 2 - http://hyperart.com/lib/index.htmlArticle 3 - http://

www.acmi.net.au/7E8A5C8E6F304A839116C3C74F81440C.htm

Article 4 - http://www.hawaii.edu/aln/cul.htmArticle 5 - http://

www.hawaii.edu/aln/lit_imp.htmArticle 6 - http://

www.humanities.uci.edu/mposter/writings/internet.html

Contexts of digital arts practice

http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/digital+art

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_arthttp

://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/mediatheory/keywords/digital-art/

Definitions of digital arts

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_festivalshttp://

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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