0:09 what is digital art you got this one I
0:11 got this one yeah um digital art is just
0:14 art made in a digital [Music]
0:26 age we've been looking very much at the
0:28 kind of materiality of data and what
0:31 that might mean for us as artists [Music]
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0:36 digital art has been around since the
0:39 1950s in a sense but not many museums
0:41 and galleries have really been focusing
0:43 on it as a serious subject matter but I
0:45 think in the last 10 years that's really
0:47 really changed and um many venues around
0:49 the world are really having a serious
0:51 look at this area and the artists who
0:53 are working in
0:55 it there have been recent shows at the
0:58 VNA the Tate and now the big Exhibition
0:59 at the barbon and I think there'll be
1:05 come I was the curator of digital
1:07 Revolution which was an exhibition which
1:09 took place at the Baran Center in summer
1:12 2014 the exhibition looked broadly at uh
1:14 digital creativity so we're looking at
1:17 the areas of art design film music and
1:20 video games so it was a kind of broad
1:22 overview of that subject but also with
1:26 um a sense of historical context as
1:28 well one of the really significant works
1:31 in the exhibition is the Pinocchio lamp
1:33 it's learning from you it has a camera
1:36 built into it and it can recognize
1:38 gesture and facial expression using
1:41 Arduino and Camera based
1:44 technology on one level it's a design
1:46 item but I think it's sort of indicating
1:49 that objects can have real character and
1:51 can engage Us in new and exciting ways
1:54 and for me that that's what makes it
1:56 art another key highlight of the
1:58 exhibition was Chris milk's Treacher of
2:00 the sanctuary which is this enor orous
2:03 three screen narrative work using
2:06 connect camera based technology which
2:08 allowed visitors to engage with their own
2:10 own [Music]
2:23 shadow 15folds is a digital art gallery
2:24 every month we pick a theme and we
2:27 invite 15 artists to interpret the theme
2:28 in a form of a
2:31 gift when we first started the project
2:32 we would go out and approach artists
2:34 people whose work we found online that
2:36 we really liked we wanted to interact
2:37 with and that's something that we
2:39 definitely still do but increasingly we
2:42 have people approach us people literally
2:44 all over the world are making work like
2:46 this and we're one of the very few
2:49 online dedicated spaces to gift art so
2:52 it feels really amazing to give people's
2:55 creativity a home that it's totally deserving
2:57 deserving [Music]
2:58 [Music] of
3:00 of [Music]
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3:05 I guess really we're artists and data is our
3:06 our
3:08 material if you go to our websites and
3:10 look at the work we make you know it's
3:12 very easy to describe us as digital
3:14 artists but as far as we're concerned
3:17 we're just artists that work within the
3:19 Contemporary Art context and we really
3:21 come out of all of the kinds of concerns
3:23 that we share with other artists that
3:25 might be working sculpturally or working
3:27 with paint or any kind of material in
3:30 fact we were thinking well if data is a
3:34 material can we draw with it and so This
3:37 Is Us trying to draw with a live news
3:39 headline decorative news feeds is an
3:41 automatic drawing so it's a kind of
3:44 endless animation that uses syndicated
3:47 news headlines the RSS feeds and then
3:49 takes a news feed at random and displays
3:52 it on a screen according to a set of
3:55 rules so it's an instruction based
3:57 artwork of course news presents itself
4:00 as a form of Truth and if we just cross
4:02 two or three headlines together perhaps
4:05 it draws your attention to how what is
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4:13 manipulated there's some great new
4:14 platforms that have developed to
4:17 Showcase this work one of my favorites
4:18 is the creators project which is a
4:20 collaboration between Intel and vice
4:22 which is a great resource for kind of
4:24 new digital work across the areas of
4:26 Contemporary Art film
4:29 music a new platform that's been around
4:31 only for a few months now is the space
4:34 which is this fantastic platform for new
4:36 Commissions in the digital domain a
4:38 fantastic space for artists to Showcase
4:40 their latest work which is a free and
4:42 very accessible web- based
4:44 platform there are huge Opportunities
4:47 For Young Artists designers filmmakers
4:48 to kind of get involved in this
4:51 area if you want to get involved I think
4:53 you know blog culture is so strong at
4:55 the moment you can set up your own blog
4:58 in seconds and start posting your own
5:00 work and you know you gain followers and
5:02 people see your work and it's also
5:04 taking an interest in other people's
5:06 work and reblogging and building this
5:09 sense of community which I think is really
5:10 really
5:12 important you don't have to be alone
5:14 anymore and I think uh that that whole
5:16 notion of a struggling kind of artist in
5:18 the studio kind of waiting for the next
5:21 uh opportunity in in a gallery is is no
5:22 more you can really be out there
5:24 practicing among of very wide
5:26 communities and getting an instant
5:29 response which is uh why digital is so
5:31 exciting I [Music]
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