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All in Digital Art
MA Curating students meet on WhatsApp to discuss their experiences of art and curatorial practice as it moved online during Covid-19. Through online projects and an analysis of the digital transformation of art, the three emerging curators discuss their experiences.
A video artwork exploring the technological objects of our future, and their growing relationship and integration with the body. In part one of three in this artwork series, take a trip with our futuristic guide Frodlaw Anele as she navigates through time and space to explore the devices of our future.
Connect the neurons of our artificial brain. For the duration of The Downloadable Brain season we invite audiences to contribute to Sarah Selby’s living artwork, which transforms and develops through machine learning technology. Make sure you visit at a later date to watch it change throughout the programme.
Blog Short Series #3: Mediated content has become the sole channel for connecting audiences with culture, creating an advent of new engagement practices and a steep learning curve in how these are approached. As audiences disappear into the unknown territories of their homes, what do we know about the quality of their experience?
Blog Short Series #1: Introducing a new set of articles analysing the internet as a medium of expression in art and curatorial practice. As Covid forces industries, practices and disciplines online, how can new digital methods be applied to better communicate their content to audiences?
Smartphones allow us to be connected 24/7, to never be unreachable, and have a universe of information and expression at our fingertips. However, this endless engagement does not come for free. With every interaction and every view, there is a physical environmental toll. Immerse yourself in this online artwork to experience these issues first hand.
Do humans push their development forward, or is the societal norms they are immersed in? 24/7: A Wake-Up Call for Our Non-Stop World, is an exhibition which pushes one to think about the conditions of our modern world. As the boundaries between work and leisure blur, and the hours we spend online extends, life becomes increasingly permeated by a sense of hectic rush and nervousness.
An online artwork by Andriana Oborocean exploring our increasingly deep connection with smartphones. Please watch, I must let this video do the talking, it’s truly magical!
‘faces’ explores how we construct narratives, highlighting the role a reader plays in determining meaning and truth. It interrogates how we piece together information to understand the world around us, highlighting the role the internet prompts and interactions can play in shaping how we tell and understand stories, and make sense of ‘facts'.
Curator Agata Kik writes about her experiences of curating across multiple realities: virtual and physical. During a time where the physical presence of artworks are no longer confined to the walls of a museum, how does the notion of presence shift as artists move increasingly towards digital spaces? Kik puts forward her own experiences as a curator, building a theory around the relationship between technology and sensory perception in contemporary curating practice.
Dutch artist duo Persijn Broersen & Margit Lukács are fascinated by the relationship between the screen and the natural world. In our current era of representation, photography has become liquid, changing our very reality through editing, filters and enhancement. This article explores the interweaving of fact and fiction through the digital territories of the artist’s work.
A review of Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s immersive environment, exploring memory through scientific experimentation. What happens to our words and thoughts as we say them out loud? Is speech something that can be recorded, transformed and preserved and how does the digital age impact this?
My recollections about surveillance in the digital age, following my Q&A at Tate Liverpool with the curator Patrizia Constantin. Hito Steyerl’s artwork provides a fantastic platform for discussion as we interpret her representation of the poor image in society.
How does our consumer driven society influence digital design, and what psychological impact might it have upon users? Drawing from Nir Eyal’s customer engagement manual Hooked: How to build habit-forming products, Vanessa Bartlett explores the various triggers that interface designers deploy to render online environments more habit-forming.
PUBLIC PROGRAMME ESSAY #2
An essay exploring the issues discussed in the event ‘Attention and Memory in the Digital Age’. Attention is a hot topic in the great digital debate. We know that multitasking allows us to spread our attention across a number of tasks, but does this allow us to be more focussed or does it simply make us distracted?
