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