Digital Dynamics: Art's New Environments (original) (raw)

2021, Digital Dynamics: Art's New Environments

Art’s conceptual expansion beyond object and form to becoming experience, sphere, and environment, nurtured by the growing interest in affective experience, has launched both excitement and concern with digitally-afforded experience. With immersive art environments, artists explore what it feels like to be present in our contemporary world of particular temporal-sensorial conditions. Artistic concerns with representation, with what is represented to us, seems to transfer to a concern with how we are present and what factors condition our sense of presence today. This conversation, taking a point of departure in the book Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art (Intellect, 2019), seeks to take a deeper shovel to what (if anything) is actually ‘new’ about art’s environments when conditioned by digitally-afforded experience: What might the imaginary pursuit of the ‘new’ in art’s environments eventually promise, demonstrate, and feed forward? Participants of the conversation include (in order of responses), Jamie Allen, Lundahl & Seitl, Ulrik Schmidt, Budhaditya Chattopadhyay, Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen, and Jøran Rudi. It is initiated and edited by Tanya Ravn Ag.