Art experience through the lens of documentation

Published on November 24th, 2021


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Graindelavoix’s film VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS offers a number of themes on which we reflect in this seminar, including the difference between the digital and the virtual in art and music, the role and impact of digital humanities, and the nature of intermediation in art. Can digitization bring us nearer to artworks? How are social interactions affected by the digital screen? What is the impact of digital mediation on art and music? Can immersive experiences replace interpretive strategies to relate to artworks?

Van Eyck, through a scanner darkly (Part I)

Art and intermediation (after COVID): rethinking the digital and the virtual
24 November 2021, De Studio Antwerpen
​Seminar in context of DARIAH project, organized by ARIA and Graindelavoix

 

Covid forced artists to radically change art and medium strategies if they didn’t want to perish. It also radicalized issues of distance and nearness in art and experience.

Parallel to this, investing in digitization as a process of scanning and mapping, backed up by public disclosure and immersive experiences, becomes increasingly important in the humanities, art and museal studies. But to what extent is this so-called scientific and cognitive approach contributing to, or rather replacing art critique and reflection?

Graindelavoix’s film VAN EYCK DIAGRAMS offers a number of themes on which we reflect in this seminar, including the difference between the digital and the virtual in art and music, the role and impact of digital humanities, and the nature of intermediation in art. Can digitization bring us nearer to artworks? How are social interactions affected by the digital screen? What is the impact of digital mediation on art and music? Can immersive experiences replace interpretive strategies to relate to artworks?

“What does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? Does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me – into us – clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can’t any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone’s sake, the scanners do better. Because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we’ll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong too…”

(From A Scanner Darkly by Philip K. Dick)

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Venue

De Studio, Maarschalk Gerardstraat 4, 2000 Antwerpen, 16:00 – 18:00

Participation is free, but registration is required. Sandwiches and drinks will be provided between 18:00 and 19:00 for registered participants of the seminar.


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