The event discussed current trends and new technological developments at the intersection of art, science and technology. The symposium was on the 5th to 8th January at the Sabanci University and Kasa Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
Together with Paul Brown, a renowned artist and art & technology expert, they gave a series of presentations about the role played by contemporary digital curators in providing both an aesthetic experience for the viewer as well as the guidance through the increasingly complex nature of information arts. Intersecting art, science and technology requires the viewer to embark upon a complex journey made of scientific data, aesthetic theories and cultural referential.
In ‘Curating Digital Art: From SIGGRAPH to Second Life’, Gollifer described how the conflict between materiality and immateriality of both the medium and the artwork is a curatorial conundrum in contemporary new media, challenging the role of a print when it is extracted from a digital artwork. In this new landscape of digital cultural encounters, old traditions and new practices are both in conflict and symbiosis: contemporary artistic practices reflect the socio-cultural landscape created by new technological applications, defying notions of discipline, borders and space as well as cultural restrictions.
