task 1 research digital artform within contemporary art practice
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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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