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Net art: Digital Instability, Artistic Identities, and Saturation

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HUM-394: Manufacturing artistic identities from the 19th to the 21st centuries

L'enseignement propose une introduction à l'histoire de l'art contemporain du XIXe au XXIe siècles, permettant d'aborder les oeuvres selon une approche esthétique et sociale ...

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This lecture delves into the world of Net art, exploring themes such as digital instability, artistic identities, and the saturation of the online space. It discusses the evolution of Net art since the mid-1990s, distinguishing it from traditional art forms and highlighting its interactive and collaborative nature. The lecture also covers key Net art collectives like Jodi and their pioneering work in web-based art. Additionally, it examines the impact of blockchain technology on art, showcasing examples such as Crypto Kitties and Beeple's 'Everydays: The First 5000 Days'. Through a series of slides, the lecture provides insights into the diverse and ever-evolving landscape of digital art.

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Related concepts (32)

Internet art

Internet art (also known as net art) is a form of new media art distributed via the Internet. This form of art circumvents the traditional dominance of the physical gallery and museum system. In many cases, the viewer is drawn into some kind of interaction with the work of art. Artists working in this manner are sometimes referred to as net artists. Net artists may use specific social or cultural internet traditions to produce their art outside of the technical structure of the internet.

Digital art

Digital art refers to any artistic work or practice that uses digital technology as part of the creative or presentation process. It can also refer to computational art that uses and engages with digital media. Since the 1960s, various names have been used to describe digital art, including computer art, electronic art, multimedia art and new media art. John Whitney developed the first computer-generated art in the early 1960s by utilizing mathematical operations to create art.

Electronic art

Electronic art is a form of art that makes use of electronic media. More broadly, it refers to technology and/or electronic media. It is related to information art, new media art, video art, digital art, interactive art, internet art, and electronic music. It is considered an outgrowth of conceptual art and systems art. The term electronic art is almost synonymous to computer art and digital art. The latter two terms, and especially the term computer-generated art are mostly used for visual artworks generated by computers.

Software art

Software art is a work of art where the creation of software, or concepts from software, play an important role; for example software applications which were created by artists and which were intended as artworks. As an artistic discipline software art has attained growing attention since the late 1990s. It is closely related to Internet art since it often relies on the Internet, most notably the World Wide Web, for dissemination and critical discussion of the works.

Interactive art

Interactive art is a form of art that involves the spectator in a way that allows the art to achieve its purpose. Some interactive art installations achieve this by letting the observer walk through, over or around them; others ask the artist or the spectators to become part of the artwork in some way. Works of this kind of art frequently feature computers, interfaces and sometimes sensors to respond to motion, heat, meteorological changes or other types of input their makers have programmed the works to respond to.

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