Track 1 - Session 1.1
Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art: Art's New Environments*
Afforded by digital dynamics, current contemporary art evolves contingently with immersive technology and manifests in environments as much as in concepts or objects. From a survey of artist testimonials collected for the book
Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art (Intellect, 2019), it seems that artists explore a mode of subjectivity rooted in their own embeddedness in digital conditions of society. They formulate their artistic positions as participants of the contemporaneity that their practices deal with. Relying on immersion rather than narrative or conceptualized meaning constructions, they explore what it actually
feels like to be present in our contemporary world and its temporal-sensorial conditions.
Following a trajectory of growing interest in affective experience across contemporary visual culture, the practical arts, and academia, perspectives in this panel will examine how contemporary art, afforded by digital technology, moves from a perspective on
what is represented to us towards
how we are present – and questions what conditions our sense of presence today. Our discussion will address human sensing as a both ontological and epistemological premise for art’s existence and experience: How do contemporary artists who engage digital culture and technology work with ideas of presence, affectivity, and immersion? What might artistic employment of digital tools and aesthetics implicate in ecological, digital-cultural, and technogenetic perspectives? What (if anything) is ‘new’ about artistic compositions of sense environments and experiences today, and how might art’s ‘new’ environments re-route art’s histories?
- REPRESENTATION, COMPLEXITY AND CONTROL
Jøran Rudi - AN AESTHETICS AFTER CONCEPTUALISM
Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen - POST-IMMERSION: TOWARDS A DISCURSIVE SITUATION IN SOUND AND MEDIA ART
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
*the speakers in this session have been sponsored by the
Nordic Council of Ministers and the
Nordic Culture Fund.