The Digital Aesthetic 2 - Conference and Exhibition, Preston, UK, March-June 2007
A joint initiative between the Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston and the Electronic & Digital Art Unit at the University of Central Lancashire.
This event focuses on the impact and implications of digital technology on contemporary fine art practise including its aesthetic, social and historical contexts.
Artistic practice in new media embraces a wide variety of approaches, environments and experiences including: interactivity, non-linearity, virtual reality, telepresence, gaming, databases, chat rooms, artificial reality and 3D visualisation. Media artists are utilising an increasingly complex set of digital tools and devices and much of this work has considerable implications for the way in which we experience art - more significantly much of this work challenges assumptions about the nature of art and the way in which art is experienced and engaged with. Curators are faced with new questions in relation to issues of the preservation and presentation of digital works including the emulation of previous technological processes and systems.
The exhibition will consist of artworks from artists of regional, national and international importance at venues including The University of Central Lancashire and the Harris Museum and Art Gallery. The 2 day conference, taking place on 16th-17th of March 2007, will highlight, explore and debate the issues and implications of new media work within the contemporary fine art context.
A website at www.digitalaesthetic.org.uk has been constructed to accompany the exhibition and will include web based artwork as well as the opportunity to participate in the conference through live web streaming.
Digital Aesthetic 2 Conference 16th-17th March 2007, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
Speakers and their presentations:
•Prof. Sean Cubitt, (Australia), Director of Media and Communications Program, Faculty of Arts, The University of Melbourne, Light and Colour in the Digital Domain
•Jon Thomson, (UK), Slade School of Art, University College London & Alison Craighead (UK), CARTE, University of Westminster, Sculpting Real Time
•Clive Gillman, (UK), Director of Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Gallery as a Digital Hub
•Gary Hill (USA) Artist
•Dr Charlie Gere (UK), Reader in New Media Research at the Institute for Cultural Research, Lancaster University, "Hoc Est Enim Corpus Meum": Stelarc's Mystical Body
•Dr Andrea Zapp,(Germany/UK), Senior Lecturer and MA Route Leader Media Arts, Faculty of art and Design, Manchester Metropolitan University, The Real and the Imaginary: Interactive Narratives in Online Media Art Installations
•Prof. David Garcia, (Netherlands), Professor of Design for Digital Cultures, University of Portsmouth, UK and Hoogschool voor de Kunst Utrecht, Knowledge, Networks, Freedom
•Prof. Bill Seaman, (USA), Department Head of Digital + Media Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island, The Thoughtbody Environmet. Toward the Science of Neo-sentient
•Prof. Paul Sermon, (UK), Professor of Creative Technology, University of Salford,
•Robert Cahen, (France) Artist, Recent Digital Works
•Peter Appleton (UK) Artist and Reader In Creative Technology, ICDC: (International Centre for Digital Content), Liverpool John Moores University
•Taylor Nuttall, (UK) Chief Executive of folly, Virtual relationships, individual identity and cultural growth
•The Vasulkas (Iceland, Czech Republic/USA), Artists, Recent Digital Video Work
•Blast Theory (UK), Artists Collective
•Avi Rosen (Israel), Artist, The Ultimate Cathedral
•Dr Alexander Galloway (USA), Assistant Professor, Department of Culture and Communication, New York University, Current and Past Work by the Radical Software Group.
•E-boy, (Germany), Artists Collective, Parts
•David Surman, (UK) Senior Lecturer in Computer Games Design, Newport School of Art, Media and Design, Pagentry and Play in Digital Art
To book a place contact: Gail Simpson, Conference Officer, Conference and Events Management, University of Central Lancashire,
Foster Building Room 10, Preston PR1 2HE, UK.
Phone: +44 (0)1772 892656 Fax: +44 (0)1772 892977 E-mail: gsimpson@uclan.ac.uk
