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Digital Media and Technologies for Virtual Artistic Spaces

Brief Description

The double blind peer-reviewed sixteen chapters were developed from the discourse of two invited panels of international panel speakers at ISEA, who together present specific expertise within creative practice and contemporary theory in their approaches to the liminal space between the digitally supported virtual and the real world. The threshold at this meeting of two worlds is considered a magic alchemical space, an interstice between the material and the ephemeral, a moment of change and of becoming the other in a process of conceptually stepping across from one world to another.

Research Rationale

CADRE has a number of projects which engage with understandings of the virtual and five of the book’s authors (including the editor) are CADRE researchers. The chapters deliver perspectives from avatars to film and animation, from heritage and anthropology to nanotechnology and from earth sciences to artificial intelligence. They move through painting, sculpture and craft to conceptual practice and social artwork in their scope, to offer insightful understandings of how the digital is offering new opportunities for the creation of virtual artistic spaces.

Strategy Undertaken

In order to discuss new work and ideas that cross the boundary between the analogue and the digital the editor convened two panels for ISEA 2009 and 2011, the first explored practice and curation across virtual and real spaces, while the latter interrogated the varied forms of theory and practice apparent in approaching the liminal space between the two worlds. The 2011 panel considered digitally facilitated liminality as either a transformative space of creative transcendence or a convivial and social space where art occurs. Panel discussions are not published in ISEA conference proceedings, and so were further developed for this edited book.