States of Being: Art and identity in digital space and time

Abstract

This one-day Symposium explored themes of personhood, modernity and digital art, bringing together speakers from a range of disciplines to consider technology, artistic practice and society. It seeks a renewed consideration of the role of art in illuminating human identity in a positive relation with technology, and its transformative effects upon space and time. The concerns for the role of art amidst the forces of a post-modern world are influenced by important legacies of the past, by which ideas about human identity and difference have been made meaningful in the relation of history and technology. In the frequently transient and conflicting forces of humanness and forces of modernity, the digital world of the arts emerges as a means by which new ideas of space and time can be considered, with new perspectives of human identity seen as states of being, towards the possibilities of experience, technology, individuality and society.

Contributors

Jonathan P. Bowen: http://www.jpbowen.com

Tula Giannini: http://mysite.pratt.edu/~giannini/

Gareth Polmeer: http://www.garethpolmeer.com

Carla Gannis: http://www.carlagannis.com

Jeremy Gardiner: http://www.jeremygardiner.co.uk

Jonathan Kearney: http://www.jonathankearney.com

Bruce Wands: http://www.brucewands.com

Jon Weinel: http://www.jonweinel.com

Conference

Publication date: July 2018

Publication date (Print): July 2018

Pages: 1-7

Affiliations

London South Bank University

School of Engineering

London, UK

Pratt Institute

School of Information

New York, USA

Royal College of Art

London

UK

Pratt Institute

New York

USA

Ravensbourne

London

UK

University of the Arts London

Camberwell College of Arts

London, UK

MFA Computer Arts

School of Visual Arts

New York, USA

Aalborg University

Aalborg

Denmark

Article

DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2018.1

Copyright statement: © Bowen et al. Published by BCS Learning and Development Ltd. Proceedings of EVA London 2018, UK

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 9 - 13 July 2018

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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Series title: Electronic Workshops in Computing