Digital Art, Culture and Heritage: New constructs and consciousness

This half-day Symposium explores themes of digital art, culture, and heritage, bringing together speakers from a range of disciplines to consider technology with respect to artistic and academic practice. As we increasingly see ourselves and life through a digital lens and the world communicated on digital screens, we experience altered states of being and consciousness in ways that blur the lines between digital and physical reality, while our ways of thinking and seeing become a digital stream of consciousness that flows between place and cyberspace. We have entered the postdigital world and are living, working, and thinking with machines as our computational culture driven by artificial intelligence and machine learning embeds itself in everyday life and threads across art, culture, and heritage, juxtaposing them in the digital profusion of human creativity on the Internet.

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

Tula Giannini: http://sites.google.com/view/tgiannini/

Rachel Ara: http://www.2ra.co

Andy Lomas: http://www.andylomas.com

Judith Siefring

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[0001]London South Bank University

School of Engineering

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[0002]Pratt Institute

School of Information

New York, NY 10011, USA

[0003]Thames-Side Studios

Harrington Way, Woolwich

London SE18 5NR, UK

[0004]Goldsmiths, University of London

Department of Computing

London SE14 6NW, UK

[0005]Bodleian Libraries

University of Oxford

Oxford OX1 3BG

UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2019.1

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2019

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 8 - 11 July 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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J WeinelJ. P BowenG DiproseN Lambert 2019 EVA London 2019: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (This volume.) http://www.bcs.org/ewic/eva2019

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[1] R AraT Giannini 2017 The making of a digital (master)piece Bowen 2017 327 334 [Cross Ref]

[2] R Ara 2019 A conceptual artist programming for social change GianniniBowen 2019a chapter 20

[3] R Bellman 1961 Adaptive Control Processes: A Guided Tour Princeton Princeton University Press

[4] J. P BowenG DiproseN Lambert 2016 EVA London 2016: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing http://www.bcs.org/ewic/eva2016 9 May 2018

[5] J. P BowenG DiproseN Lambert 2017 EVA London 2017: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing http://www.bcs.org/ewic/eva2017 9 May 2018

[6] J. P BowenT Giannini 2014 Digitalism: The new realism? K NgJ. P BowenS McDaid EVA London 2014: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing 324 331 [Cross Ref]

[7] J. P BowenT Giannini 2016 From analogue to digital in literature and art Bowen 2016 1 4 [Cross Ref]

[8] J. P BowenT Giannini 2019 The digital future for museums GianniniBowen 2019a chapter 28

[9] J. P BowenT GianniniG Polmeer 2017 Coded communication: Digital senses and aesthetics, merging art and life Bowen 2017 1 8 [Cross Ref]

[10] J. P BowenT GianniniG PolmeerC GannisJ GardinerJ KearneyB WandsJ Weinel 2018a States of Begin: Art and identity in digital space and time Bowen 2018c 1 7 [Cross Ref]

[11] J. P BowenT TrickettJ. B. A GreenA Lomas 2018b Turing’s genius – defining an apt microcosm Bowen 2018c 155 162 [Cross Ref]

[12] J. P BowenJ WeinelG DiproseN Lambert 2018 EVA London 2018: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing http://www.bcs.org/ewic/eva2018 22 March 2019

[13] British Library 2018 Living with Machines. The Alan Turing Institute and the British Library awarded £9.2 million for a major new project set to revolutionise research British Library 2018 December 19 https://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2018/december/living-with-machines 27 March 2019

[14] Christie’s 2018 Is artificial intelligence set to become art’s next medium? Christies 2018 December 12 https://www.christies.com/features/A-collaboration-between-two-artists-one-human-one-a-machine-9332-1.aspx 27 March 2019

[15] R Chun 2017 It’s Getting Hard to Tell If a Painting Was Made by a Computer or a Human Artsy 2017 Sepember 21 https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-hard-painting-made-computer-human 27 March 2019

[16] S Contreras-KoterbayMirocha, Ł 2016 The New Aesthetic and Art: Constellations of the postdigital Amsterdam Institute of Network Cultures 245 http://networkcultures.org/wpcontent/uploads/2016/07/TOD20-final.pdf 27 March 2019

[17] D. L Donoho 2000 High-Dimensional Data Analysis: The Curses and Blessings of Dimensionality Presented at AMS Math Challenges Lecture Los Angeles, CA, USA 6–11 August 2000

[18] B Elderkin 2018 Will We Ever Be Able to Upload a Mind to a New Body? Gozmodo 2018 May 2 https://gizmodo.com/will-we-ever-be-able-to-upload-amind-to-a-new-body-1822622161 27 March 2019

[19] FIT Newsroom 2019 Exhibition: The Future is Immersive https://news.fitnyc.edu/event/exhibition-the-future-is-immersive-closes/ 7 April 2019

[20] D Galeon 2017 Our Computers Are Learning How to Code Themselves – Human coders beware Futurism 2017 February 24 https://futurism.com/4-our-computers-are-learning-how-to-code-themselves 27 March 2019

[21] E Gent 2019 Intel Is Building the World’s Most Powerful Supercomputer Singularity Hub 2019 March 25 https://singularityhub.com/2019/03/25/intel-is-building-the-worlds-most-powerful-supercomputer/ 27 March 2019

[22] T GianniniJ. P Bowen 2016 Curating digital life and culture: Art and information Bowen 2016 237 244 [Cross Ref]

[23] T GianniniJ. P Bowen 2017 Life in code and digits: When Shannon met Turing Bowen 2017 51 58 [Cross Ref]

[24] T GianniniJ. P Bowen 2018 Of museums and digital culture: A landscape view Bowen 2018 172 179 [Cross Ref]

[25] T GianniniJ. P Bowen 2019a Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research Springer, Series on Cultural Computing

[26] T GianniniJ. P Bowen 2019b Art and Activism at museums in a post-digital world Weinel 2019 (This volume.)

[27] N. K Hayles 2007 Intermediation: The Pursuit of a Vision. New Literary History 38 1 99 125 2007 Winter Johns Hopkins University Press [Cross Ref]

[28] H Han 2019 Virtual World Construction and the Relationship to Creativity in Art Education Canadian Review of Art Education 46 1 85 100 2019 https://www.academia.edu/38285794 27 March 2019

[29] S Kauffman 1996 At Home in the Universe: The Search for Laws of Self-organization and Complexity London Penguin

[30] R Kurzweil 2009 The Coming Singularity. Big Think YouTube 2009 April 28 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uIzS1uCOcE 27 March 2019

[31] A Lomas 2005 Aggregation: Complexity out of simplicity ACM SIGGRAPH 2005 Sketches New York ACM [Cross Ref]

[32] A Lomas 2007 Flow. Morphogenetic Creations http://www.andylomas.com/flow.html 27 March 2019

[33] A Lomas 2016 Species Explorer: An interface for artistic exploration of multi-dimensional parameter spaces Bowen 2016 95 102 [Cross Ref]

[34] A Lomas 2018 On Hybrid Creativity Arts 2018 7 3 25 [Cross Ref]

[35] A Lomas 2019 Morphogenetic Creations: Exhibiting and collecting digital art GianniniBowen 2019a chapter 17

[36] A. C McDougall 2019 What is Cyber-Consciousness? Digital Intermediation between Consciousness and Computer through Postmodern Tension in Tao Lin’s Taipei. C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-century Writings 7 1 1 27 2019 January [Cross Ref]

[37] I PapadimitriouJ AddisA LomasL DekkerK SingporewalaP Tresset 2017 Digital Futures: Lumen Big Reveal Bowen 2017 438 440 [Cross Ref]

[38] G Polmeer 2016 Sublating time: Hegel’s speculative philosophy and digital aesthetics Bowen 2016 257 264 [Cross Ref]

[39] J Siefring 2019 Democratizing discovery: The impact of digital culture on the research library GianniniBowen 2019a chapter 25

[40] J WeinelJ. P BowenG DiproseN Lambert 2019 EVA London 2019: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (This volume.) http://www.bcs.org/ewic/eva2019

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