{"id":665,"date":"2014-03-25T14:33:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T14:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=665"},"modified":"2014-04-03T13:06:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T13:06:37","slug":"conference-session-histories-of-digital-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=665","title":{"rendered":"Conference session: Histories of Digital Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cliff Lauson (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.southbankcentre.co.uk\/venues\/hayward-gallery\">Hayward Gallery<\/a>) is the convenor for\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aah.org.uk\/annual-conference\/sessions2014\/session26\">Parsing the Pixelated: The Histories of Digital Art<\/a>, a session within the\u00a0AAH2014 conference at\u00a0Royal College of Art on\u00a010 &#8211; 12 April 2014. The session features papers including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Beryl Graham (University of Sunderland) <em>Exhibition Histories of Critical Participatory Systems<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Cary Levine (The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) <em>Net Works: Jodi and the Early Days of Internet Art<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Douglas Dodds and Melanie Lenz (Victoria &amp; Albert Museum) <em>Documenting the New Medium: The V&amp;A\u2019s national collection of early digital art<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Cadence Kinsey (University College of London) <em>Discipline, Determinism and \u2018The Digital\u2019<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Charlotte Frost (City University of Hong Kong) <em>Hacking Art History<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The session will explore the definitions of and approaches toward digital art. It will be primarily concerned with the digital as an artistic medium and its relationship to and within art history.<\/p>\n<p>Although digital art precedes the creation of the world wide web in the early 1990s, it is only more recently, facilitated by affordable and widely distributed connected technology, that digital art has become firmly established as an artistic category. Yet the term remains nebulous, including many disparate forms and types of art: from manipulated photographs to interactive installations to works existing on or made by a computer.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the history of art has yet to substantively account for digital art, frequently deferring to the tools and methods of visual culture studies in recognition of a broader cultural phenomenon. Repositories of digital art have also recently been founded: on the one hand, the Museum of Modern Art, New York has started to acquire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moma.org\/explore\/inside_out\/2013\/06\/28\/video-games-seven-more-building-blocks-in-momas-collection\">video games<\/a> for its collection, on the other, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/culturalinstitute\/project\/art-project\">Google Art Project<\/a> gathers together a virtual mega-collection of artworks drawn from the world\u2019s leading museums.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aah.org.uk\/annual-conference\/sessions2014\/session26\">About the conference<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cliff Lauson (Hayward Gallery) is the convenor for\u00a0Parsing the Pixelated: The Histories of Digital Art, a session within the\u00a0AAH2014 conference at\u00a0Royal College of Art on\u00a010 &#8211; 12 April 2014. The session features papers including: Beryl Graham (University of Sunderland) Exhibition Histories of Critical Participatory Systems Cary Levine (The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Net &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/?p=665\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conference session: Histories of Digital Art<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=665"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665\/revisions\/667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.doc.gold.ac.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}