Digital Technologies as a Tool (2)

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Digital Art

This course text by Christine Paul was published as part of the Thames & Hudson world of art series in 2003.  Christine is the Adjunct Curator of New Media Arts at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and the director of Intelligent Agent.

The text is a survey of some of the developments in digital art from its appearance in the 1980s and Paul touches on some of the themes that we will be investigating further:
viewer interaction, artificial life and intelligence, political and social activism, networks and telepresence, as well as issues such as the collection, presentation and preservation of digital art.

Goodbye privacy!

From September 5 – 11, Linz Austria becomes the buzzing center of Festival Ars Electronica. The theme this year is the title of this post: goodbye privacy!

According to the festival description:

“A new culture of everyday life is now upon us, bracketed by the angst-inducing scenarios of seamless surveillance and the zest we bring to staging our public personas via digital media. One in which everything seems to be public and nothing’s private anymore. Panopticon or consummate individual freedom of expression? “