Digital Visual Culture

Hazel Gardiner, Anna Bentkowska-Kafel

Description

Digital Visual Culture presents the latest research into the relationship between theory and practice across digital media and technology in the visual arts and investigates the challenges of contemporary research and art curation, particularly in regard to new media artworks. The contributors to this volume discuss the impact of technological advances on visual art and the new art practices that are developing as a result. Many aspects of new interdisciplinary and collaborative practices are considered, such as net art and global locative environments, , and installations that are themselves performance, or games that often take place simultaneously online and in reality. Digital Visual Culture is an important addition to the ongoing discussion surrounding postmodern art practice in art and digital media.

Sujets

• Loisirs
• Arts Numériques
• Art numérique
• ART
• Digital
• Animation
• Design
• Graphic design
• Study
• COMPUTERS
• Teaching

Informations

• Publié par: Intellect Books
• Date de parution: 01 mars 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781841502991
• Langue: English

Extrait

Digital Visual Culture
Theory and Practice
Digital Visual Culture
Theory and Practice
Computers and the History of Art, Yearbook 2006, Volume 3 Edited by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Trish Cashen and Hazel Gardiner
The papers by Elizabeth Coulter-Smith and Graham Coulter-Smith, Dew Harrison, Ann-Sophie Lehmann, Hamid van Koten and Ralf Nuhn were originally presented at the CHArt 21st annual conference, Theory and Practice , held at the British Academy, London, Thursday 10-Friday 11 November 2005 and are published online at www.chart.ac.uk/chart2005 . The papers by Karen Cham, Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Anne Laforet and Elaine Shemilt were originally presented at the CHArt 22nd annual conference, Fast Forward. Art History, Curation and Practice after Media , held at Birkbeck, University of London, Thursday 9-Friday 10 November 2006 and are published online at www.chart.ac.uk/chart2006 .
The papers have been refereed by the CHArt Editorial Board and Jim Devine of the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, Scotland, and Peter Main of the British Museum. CHArt would like to thank all the reviewers for their help.
Disclaimer: The articles in this collection express the views of the authors and not necessarily those of the CHArt Editorial Board. Articles individual author(s) and reproduction is with their permission. Illustrations individual authors unless stated otherwise.
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or otherwise, without first seeking the written permission of the copyright owners and the publisher.
CHArt Committee: Christopher Bailey, Leeds Metropolitan University, UK Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, King s College London, UK Trish Cashen, The Open University, UK Rupert Faulkner (Treasurer), Victoria and Albert Museum, UK Francesca Franco (Student Member), Birkbeck, University of London, UK Hazel Gardiner, King s College London, UK Charlie Gere (Chairman), Lancaster University, UK Marlene Gordon, University of Michigan, USA Neil Grindley, Joint Information Systems Committee, London, UK Michael Hammel, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Colum Hourihane, Index of Christian Art, Princeton University, USA Mike Pringle, Swindon Cultural Partnership, UK Phillip Purdy, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, London, UK Jemima Rellie, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, USA Tanya Szrajber, British Museum, London, UK Suzette Worden, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Western Australia
CHArt, Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King s College London, 26-29 Drury Lane, London WC2B 5RL. Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone], www.chart.ac.uk,[e-mail]
Digital Visual Culture
Theory and Practice
Computers and the History of Art Series
Edited by Anna Bentkowska-Kafel, Trish Cashen and Hazel Gardiner
First published in the UK in 2009 by Intellect Books, The Mill, Parnall Road, Fishponds, Bristol, BS16 3JG, UK
First published in the USA in 2009 by Intellect Books, The University of Chicago Press, 1427 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Copyright 2009 Intellect Ltd
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission.
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
Cover Design: Holly Rose Copy Editor: Rhys Williams Typesetting: Mac Style, Beverley, E. Yorkshire
ISBN 978-1-84150-248-9 EISBN 978-1-84150-299-1
Printed and bound by Gutenberg Press, Malta.
Contents
Contributors
Introduction
by Hazel Gardiner
DIGITAL CREATIVITY
Aesthetics and Interactive Art
by Karen Cham
A Blueprint of Bacterial Life: Can a Science-art Fusion Move the Boundaries of Visual and Audio Interpretation?
by Elaine Shemilt
Invisible Work: The Representation of Artistic Practice in Digital Visual Culture
by Ann-Sophie Lehmann
DIGITAL SPACES
Mapping Outside the Frame: Interactive and Locative Art Environments
by Elizabeth Coulter-Smith and Graham Coulter-Smith
From UNCAGED to Cyber-Spatialism
by Ralf Nuhn
DIGITAL PRESENCE
When Presence-absence Becomes Pattern-randomness: Blast Theory s Can You See Me Now?
by Maria Chatzichristodoulou [aka maria x]
The Digital Image and the Pleasure Principle: The Consumption of Realism in the Age of Simulation
by Hamid van Koten
DIGITAL ARCHIVE
Digital Archiving as an Art Practice
by Dew Harrison
Preservation of Net Art in Museums
by Anne Laforet
Abstracts
CHArt - Computers and the History of Art
Guidelines for Submitting Papers for the CHArt Yearbook
Contributors
Anna Bentkowska-Kafel is currently a research fellow for the 3D Visualisation in the Arts Network, 3DVisA ( http://3dvisa.cch.kcl.ac.uk ), funded by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee and hosted by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King s College London. She is also Associate Director of the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland ( www.crsbi.ac.uk ) and is responsible for the creation and longterm preservation of the project s digital archive. Her research, teaching and publications have been mainly on early modern visual culture in western Europe, with special interest in cosmological and anthropomorphic representations of nature; as well as the use of computer graphics in the study and interpretation of art. She holds an MA in the History of Art (Warsaw), an MA in Computing Applications for the History of Art (London) and a Ph.D. in Digital Media Studies (Southampton). She has been a member of the CHArt committee since 1999.
Trish Cashen has been involved with integrating computing into university-level humanities teaching since working with the UK Computers in Teaching Initiative in the early 1990s. She works at The Open University, where her role involves exploiting a range of new media for teaching arts subjects. Her main areas of interest lie in developing blended learning environments to facilitate resource discovery, formative assessment and communication. She is currently investigating the use of social networking tools for learner support. She has been a member of the CHArt committee since 1994.
Karen Cham is an artist, lecturer and researcher. She is Principal Lecturer in Digital Media and Development Director of the Digital Media Institute at Kingston University, United Kingdom. She has been working with audio-visual technology since 1987 making performance, installation and screen-based works. She explores the poetic potential of media technologies within a critical context. Current research interests include digital semiotics, computational media aesthetics and design for interaction.
Maria Chatzichristodoulou , aka maria x, is a doctoral candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is based at Goldsmiths Digital Studios. Her background is in theatre and digital media arts. She worked as a performer, curator and producer, and has been the initiator and coordinator of interdisciplinary events and cultural activities in Greece and the United Kingdom. She co-directed the Fournos Centre for Digital Culture and Mediaterra Arts and Technologies Festival in Athens, 1996-2002 and has collaborated with the French Centre International Creation Video et Multimedia (CICV, 2000-2003) as curator and researcher; and with the Machinista Festival in Glasgow, 2004. She has worked as Community Participation Officer for the Albany Centre in London, 2003-2005, and has lectured at Goldsmiths College, Richmond American University in London and Birkbeck, University of London.
Elizabeth Coulter-Smith ( www.coultersmith.com ) is a new media artist and lecturer and has worked in the visual arts in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. She is Head of Fine Art at Staffordshire University. Prior to this appointment she was a Senior Lecturer in New Media at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) 2003-2006. From 2001-2003 she worked at the University of Southampton, School of Computer Science and Electronics. She is currently working on a site specific locative commission. Her work can be found in corporate, public and private collections in Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Graham Coulter-Smith ( www.coultersmith.com ) is Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Art in the Faculty of Media, Art and Society at Southampton Solent University, and Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory at Staffordshire University. He is the author of The Postmodern Art of Imants Tillers: Appropriation en abyme 1971-2001 , Paul Holberton Publishing, 2002; and Deconstructing Installation Art: Fine Art and Media Art, 1986-2006 . Madrid: Brumaria, 2009. He co-edited, with Maurice Owen, Art in the Age of Terrorism, published for Southampton Solent University s Centre for Advanced Scholarship in Art and Design by Paul Holberton Publishing, 2005.
Hazel Gardiner is an editor for the Corpus of Romanesque Sculpture in Britain and Ireland ( www.crsbi.ac.uk ) and coordinates the visual culture module of the MA in Digital Humanities at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King s College London. Prior to this she was Senior Project Officer for the ICT Methods Network, funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council, at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King s College London. She is a researcher for the CRSBI and also for the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi ( www.cvma.ac.uk ). She has been a member of the CHArt committee since 1997.
Dew Harrison is a researcher and practitioner in digital and computer-mediated art currently working as Reader in Digital Media Art at the University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom. Within her practice she undertakes a critical exploration of conceptual art, the non-linear narrative and multimedia mind-mapping. She often works collaboratively and co