Transformations: New media art between communities and professional practice

Media Arts has long been regarded as a niche within the contemporary art discourse, secluded from the art market and from the public alike. As technology becomes more accessible, these former boundaries erode. While the art market slowly starts to embrace new media artists, local communities show a renewed interest in the power of technologically-facilitated art, due to its participatory nature. How do professional media artists make a living outside of the constraints of the contemporary art market? How can local communities and the public profit from media art?

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Oliver Mag Gingrich

Aphra Shemza

Maria Almena

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Publication date: July 2020

Publication date (Print): July 2020

Pages: 183-188

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[0001]Art in Flux

London, UK

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2020.34

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2020

Conference acronym: EVA 2020

Conference number: 30

Conference location: London

Conference date: 6th July – 9th July 2020

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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[1] Boredom Research 2015 Dream of Mice [Film]

[2] Computer Arts Society 1969 EVENT ONE – Exhibition Catalogue Royal College of Art https://computer-arts-society.com/uploads/event-one-1969.pdf

[3] C Geere 2004 New Media Art and the Gallery in the Digital Age Tate Papers No 2 Autumn 2004

[4] O GingrichA ShemzaM Almena 2018 FLUX Events: Current trends in contemporary media arts EVA London 2018 (Electronic Visualisation and the Arts), 9–18 July 2018 British Computer Society London BCS 211 212

[5] J Hamilton 2019 Event Two: The BCS Computer Arts Society ITNOW 61 4 Winter 2019 28 29

[6] C Mason 2008 A Computer in the Art Room: The Origins of British Computer Arts 1950 – 1980 Quiller Press

[7] I Papadimitriou 2018 Digital Futures. Exhibits at the EVA London 2018 EVA London 2018 (Electronic Visualisation and the Arts)

[8] G Polmeer 2018 States of Being: Art and identity in digital space and time EVA London 2018 (Electronic Visualisation and the Arts)