Brown Outing.When digital art was young theory got all the attention. Now that the practice has grown up (witness the major exhibitions currently on view in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and San Francisco), theory seems to be taking the backseat. This month however, Brown University hosts the fourth annual Digital Arts Conference (DAC See D/A converter and discretionary access control. DAC - Digital to Analog Converter ), an international gathering of academics and critics who will share their ideas on what is in face a growing discipline. Digital art and Net art a aren't the only hot topics. Electronically based performance computer-generated music interface design, and video games also show up on the menu. Digital art is after all a multimedia enterprise--and the conference emphasizes its heterogeneity. Hypertext literature is well represented (Stuart Moulthrop a leading hypertext critic, is a keynote speaker)--no surprise as it's been part of Brown's writing program for over a decade championed by novelist Robert Coover, among others. UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX cyberscholar N. Katherine Hayles N. Katherine Hayles (16 December, 1943 - ) is a noted postmodern literary critic and theorist as well as the author of How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature and Informatics which won the Rene Wellek Prize , author of How We Became Posthuman, will deliver a paper on "metaphoric networks in new media." And a DAC-sponsored art exhibition will include a program created by NYU NYU New York University NYU New York Undercover (TV show) graduate student Aaron Hertzmann that transforms video images into "paintings" rendered--with irony?--in various art-historical styles like impressionism impressionism, in painting impressionism, in painting, late-19th-century French school that was generally characterized by the attempt to depict transitory visual impressions, often painted directly from nature, and by the use of pure, broken color to . "Four years ago, digital-art theory was dependent upon other kinds of postmodern theory. But I think people are realizing digital art isn't simply the bastard child of film, video, or experimental literature," says DAC cochair David Reville, acting director of Brown's Scholarly Technology Group. "So we are attempting to articulate how we understand it now." Stay tuned to see who emerges as the Benjamin of the age of digital reproduction. |
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