Digital Light Symposium: Melbourne

See website for program details: www.digital-light.net.au
No bookings necessary

This interdisciplinary symposium invites leading international and Australian figures working with digital light-based technologies to consider the capacities and limitations of contemporary digital processes. How do contemporary digital media imitate, advance or retreat from the achievements of older techniques and devices? Why do accidental artefacts of specific media become desirable outcomes in others? What role do artists and artisans play in redefining technologies through technique? Artists, curators and technologists will explore these questions from diverse angles, each exploring the techniques and technologies used in depicting, recording and projecting digital light.

Confirmed speakers:

Geoffrey Batchen (Art Historian, NZ)
Victor Burgin (Artist, UK)
Steve Dietz (Curator, US)
Jon Ippolito (Artist/Curator, US)
Stephen Jones (Artist/Historian, AUST)
Alex Monteith (Artist, NZ)
Christiane Paul (Curator, US)
Jeffrey Shaw (Artist, HK)
Alvy Ray Smith (Computer graphics pioneer, US)
Van Sowerwine (Artist, AUST)
Lynette Wallworth (Artist, AUST)

This event is part of the Australia Research Council Discovery Project ‘Genealogies of Digital Light’ involving Professor Sean Cubitt (University of Melbourne), Dr Daniel Palmer (Monash University), and Dr Les Walkling (RMIT University).