Beyond Human: Arts and identity between reality and virtuality in a post-Covid-19 world

This Symposium Panel explores themes of arts and identity with respect to the boundaries of reality and virtuality, especially with respect to changes in attitudes accelerated due to the restrictions of the Covid-19 pandemic. Each panellist provides a position statement from their point of view. The viewpoints cover artistic, curatorial, and academic issues. The effects are rapidly changing the digital culture in which we increasingly live.

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

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

Rachel Falconer: https://cargocollective.com/RF

Michael Takeo Magruder: http://www.takeo.org

Emanuele Marconi: http://www.emanuelemarconi.it

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Publication date: July 2021

Publication date (Print): July 2021

Pages: 7-11

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[0001]London South Bank University

School of Engineering

London, UK

[0002]Pratt Institute

School of Information

New York, USA

[0003]Goldsmiths, University of London

CSNI/LSBU & Whitechapel Gallery

London, UK

[0004]The National Archives, UK

Henry Luce III Center for the Arts & Religion

Washington, DC, USA

[0005]Musée des Instruments à Vent

La Couture-Boussey

France

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2021.2

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Conference name: Proceedings of EVA London 2021

Conference acronym: EVA 2021

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Conference location: London

Conference date: 5th July – 9th July 2021

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: AI and the Arts: Artificial Imagination

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[1] J. P. Bowen (2020) A personal view of EVA London: Past, present, future. In Weinelet al. (2020), pp. 8–15. [Cross Ref]

[2] J. P. Bowen, G. Diprose, and N. Lambert (eds.) (2016) EVA London 2016: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing. ScienceOpen. [Cross Ref]

[3] J. P. Bowen, G. Diprose, and N. Lambert (eds.) (2017) EVA London 2017: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing. ScienceOpen. [Cross Ref]

[4] J. P. Bowen and T. Giannini (2014) Digitalism: The new realism? In K. Ng, J. P. Bowen, and S. McDaid (eds.), EVA London 2014: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing, pp. 324–331. [Cross Ref]

[5] J. P. Bowen and T. Giannini (2016) From analogue to digital in literature and art. In Bowenet al. (2016), pp. 1–4. [Cross Ref]

[6] J. P. Bowen and T. Giannini (2021) Digitality: A reality check. In Weinelet al. (2021), this volume.

[7] J. P. Bowen, T. Giannini, R. Ara, A. Lomas, and J. Siefring (2019) Computational Culture and AI: Challenging human identity and curatorial practice. In Weinelet al. (2019), pp. 1–9. [Cross Ref]

[8] J. P. Bowen, T. Giannini, and G. Polmeer (2017) Coded communication: Digital senses and aesthetics, merging art and life. In Bowenet al. (2017), pp. 1–8. [Cross Ref]

[9] J. P. Bowen, T. Giannini, G. Polmeer, R. Falconer, A. I. Miller, Kearney, and S. Dunn (2020) States of Begin: Art and identity in digital space and time. In Weinelet al. (2020), pp. 1–7. [Cross Ref]

[10] J. P. Bowen, T. Giannini, G. Polmeer, C. Gannis, J. Gardiner, J. Kearney, B. Wands, and J Weinel. (2018) States of Begin: Art and identity in digital space and time. In Bowenet al. (2018), pp. 1–7. [Cross Ref]

[11] J. P. Bowen, J. Weinel, G. Diprose, and N. Lambert (eds.) (2018) EVA London 2018: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing. ScienceOpen. [Cross Ref]

[12] T. Giannini and J. P. Bowen (2016) Curating digital life and culture: Art and information. In Bowenet al. (2016), pp. 237–244. [Cross Ref]

[13] T. Giannini and J. P. Bowen (2018) Of museums and digital culture: A landscape view. In Bowenet al. (2018), pp. 172–179. [Cross Ref]

[14] T. Giannini and J. P. Bowen (eds.) (2019a) Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research. Springer, Series on Cultural Computing. [Cross Ref]

[15] T. Giannini and J. P. Bowen (2019b) Digital culture. In GianniniBowen (eds.) (2019a), chapter 1, pp. 3–26. [Cross Ref]

[16] T. Giannini and J. P. Bowen (2019c) Museums and digitalism. In GianniniBowen (eds.) (2019a), chapter 2, pp. 27–46. [Cross Ref]

[17] T. Giannini and J. P. Bowen (2019d) Art and Activism at museums in a post-digital world. In Weinelet al. (2019), pp. 27–35. [Cross Ref]

[18] T. Giannini and J. P. Bowen (2021) Museums at the crossroads: Between digitality, reality, and Covid-19. In V. Cappelliniet al. (eds.), EVA 2021 Florence Proceedings.

[19] ICOM (2020) Report: Museums, museum professionals and COVID-19. International Council of Museums, May. $uri href="https://icom.museum/wpcontent/uploads/2020/05/Report-Museums-andCOVID-19.pdf">https://icom.museum/wpcontent/uploads/2020/05/Report-Museums-andCOVID-19.pdf$/uri>

[20] M. T. Magruder (ed.) (2019) Imaginary Cities. British Library, London, UK.

[21] G. Polmeer (2016) Sublating time: Hegel’s speculative philosophy and digital aesthetics. In Bowenet al. (2016), pp. 257–264. [Cross Ref]

[22] G. Polmeer (2019) Historical questions on being and digital culture. In GianniniBowen (eds.) (2019a), chapter 3, pp. 49–62. [Cross Ref]

[23] UNESCO (2020) Museums around the world in the face of COVID-19. UNESCO Report, UNESDOC Digital Library, May. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000373530

[24] J. Weinel, J. P. Bowen, A. Borda, and G. Diprose (eds.) (2021) EVA London 2021: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC). ScienceOpen. [Cross Ref]

[25] J. Weinel, J. P. Bowen, G. Diprose, and N Lambert. (eds.) (2019) EVA London 2019: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing. ScienceOpen. [Cross Ref]

[26] J. Weinel, J. P. Bowen, G. Diprose, and N Lambert. (eds.) (2020) EVA London 2020: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts. BCS, Electronic Workshops in Computing. ScienceOpen. [Cross Ref]

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