Abstract
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 address 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.
Highlights
INTRODUCTIONThis day-long Pre-conference Symposium of keynote talks and invited talks follows on from the first EVA London Pre-conference held in 2016 (Bowen & Giannini 2016)
This day-long Pre-conference Symposium of keynote talks and invited talks follows on from the first EVA London Pre-conference held in 2016 (Bowen & Giannini 2016).The symposium covers questions about digital theory and practice in the areas of aesthetics and art, from both a historical and contemporary context
The symposium was dedicated to Ingrid Beazley (1950–2017) of Dulwich Picture Gallery, who was invited to speak at the 2016 symposium (Bowen & Giannini 2016) but was unable to do so
Summary
This day-long Pre-conference Symposium of keynote talks and invited talks follows on from the first EVA London Pre-conference held in 2016 (Bowen & Giannini 2016). The first half of the symposium was organised by the Royal College of Art and the second half has been organised by the Pratt Institute School of Information, with a joint panel session at the end of the day. These wide-ranging presentations are designed to be contrasting as well as thoughtprovoking. Information on the keynote speakers and abstracts for all the talks are included
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