Fri 27 August 2010
10:00–12:00h
Volkshochschule Dortmund, L 103

Moderated by Dieter Daniels (de)

1. 10:00h | Lucas Evers (de): Process as Paradigm
2. 10:30h | Tegan Bristow (za): Methods of Evocation. The Evocation of the Sublime in Digital Art

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | P44 New Art Theory I (PDF, 80.82 KB)

Lucas Evers (de)

Process as Paradigm

The exhibition 'Process as Paradigm' poses a bold thesis: process – non-linear and non-deterministic – has become one of the major paradigms in contemporary art and culture: Process as a property or behavior of a system, be it nature, society, culture or art. Systems constructed by artists and then released into the world, processes taking over their own development can be represented in the format of an exhibition. Though what about processes that contain human activity, human agency as one of its core factors. Those works of art are both significant for the thesis of the exhibition and for contemporary arts informed by networked technology. Which are those works, in how far do they lean on processuality, and what do they mean for contemporary art production?

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Process as Paradigm (PDF)

Lucas Evers is head of the e-Culture programme of Waag Society in Amsterdam, a position from which he is interested and involved in projects where art, science, design and the societal meet, extending the e of e-Culture to a wider range of technology informed arts and their representations of, meaning for and effects on society.
Further Information: waag

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Tegan Bristow (za)

Methods of Evocation. The Evocation of the Sublime in Digital Art

The paper proposes that the sublime when evoked through digital art, which is enhanced by data, reveals a change in the relationship between society and technology. This evocation is hinged on an understanding of data as an epiphenomenon, an extension of ourselves. This argument is made through an assessment of the role of the notion of the sublime in human reason and as an aesthetic construct. A trajectory of the notion of the sublime from Romanticism to Postmodernism is made to expand on the notion. The final establishment of a new method of evocation and its consequences is made using Walter De Maria’s 'Lightning Field' (1977) and Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin’s 'Listening Post' (2001 – 2003).

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Methods of Evocation. The Evocation of the Sublime in Digital Art (PDF)

Tegan Bristow is an active interactive digital media artist based in and concerned with South Africa. Bristow additionally runs and teaches the Wits University Postgraduate Program in Interactive Digital Art, which includes interactive installation design, programming and Critical Studies in Digital Arts and Culture.

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