NVQ

In London

£ 545 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    NVQ

  • Location

    London

  • Duration

    1 Week

  • Start date

    Different dates available

Art in a post-digital era will consider contemporary art practice and its reception, with a focus on visual and textual art works, collaborative projects, and performative works that explore new modes of exhibition and blur the on/offline divide.

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London
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1 Granary Square

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Subjects

  • Networks
  • Works
  • Network
  • Exhibition
  • Art
  • Image
  • Technology
  • Writing
  • Trade
  • Network Training
  • Production
  • Publishers

Course programme

The course will introduce you to a broad range of art ideas in early networked cultures that are particularly relevant to current modes of art practice. You will explore traditional methods of publishing and a selective history of artists’ experimental text productions and counter-cultural publishing related to advances in technology.

We will also be looking at works that share event-like qualities and performative aspects, thinking through frameworks that come of the conceptual period, cybernetics and net.art - and how these ideas have been incorporated and assimilated into artists working practice today.

Topics covered include:

  • Networked culture – pre and post internet
  • The hidden materiality of networks
  • Hybrid strategies: material and immaterial outcomes
  • Image production in an era of image proliferation/distribution and spam
  • Structures of distribution networks (cybernetics) and the dissemination of ideas
  • Critical analysis ‘from within’ networked culture / complicity
  • Online works – essays, journals, text and visual art production
  • The digital art work – new contracts – display / maintenance
  • 3D printing and the potential of distribution in relation to art production
  • Cryptography in decentralised networks such as blockchain/peer-to-peer file systems
  • Digital archives / Silk Road – community and/or piracy
  • You will visit on and offline venues and platforms, artists websites/online works, as well as artist studios, that explore working in these ways. We will be looking at art works that have tended to push the limits of new technologies, and through their production make visible the changing conditions in our co-evolution with technology.

Throughout the course there will be development of the ideas presented through critical analysis and group discussion, and conversation with contemporary artists engaged in such practices, with two invited speakers.

Brief overall history of important precedents in the history of publishing:

  • Technological developments
  • Authorship / Copyright / Intellectual property
  • Acts of copying for religious purposes
  • Piracy – authors working behind their publishers back with other publishers
  • Trade – distribution networks of a very material kind
  • Selective history of Artists’ Publishing and early network culture:
  • Fluxus – publishing as process
  • Mail Art Networks
  • Conceptual art practice
  • Counter-culture publishing
  • The photocopier / DIY aesthetic
  • Self-publishing phenomena in recent years
  • Recent artists’ writing – critique through fiction
  • Post-digital productions – hybrid strategies:
  • Hybrid strategies – both material and immaterial outcomes+
  • On and offline platforms/means of production
  • The hidden materiality of networks
  • Publishing strategies as a method of working collaboratively
  • Structures re networks of distribution
  • Algorithms curating big data
  • Online works – essays / journals / art
  • The Spam of the Earth – ideas re the ‘poor’ image

Who should take this course?

Those who already have a keen interest in art production in a digital age.

Students with a basic understanding and experience of working or engaging socially online.

Anyone keen to engage with earlier precedents that might permit analysis of how artists are working today.

Although there is a focus on network culture, this is not at the expense of visual productions, which we will also be considering.

Please note: This course is for students aged 18 and older

Art in a Digital Age

£ 545 VAT inc.