Description
Mixing it Up
Moderated by: Cynthia Beth Rubin and Sue Gollifer
Digital Imaging has evolved to become the ultimate assemblage medium, providing the space for artists to move among various software and physical processes in creating innovative work. Traditionally artworks are classified by medium. As Digital Artists, we uniquely positioned to break down these arbitrary barriers in our practice.
Is it a “work on paper” if it is a print, or “new media” if the essential components are first digital, and the print is secondary, but also not wholly digital because the artist has drawn on it, or cut into it, or wrapped it around a physical object, or put something onto the surface? Is it is a sculpture if the form was developed in 3D software, it was 3D printed, but then physically cut into, with a variety of substances added to the surface? What if it is just one component in a grouping of elements in an installation?
We are interested in a discussion of works that are both entirely digital in conception and works combining physical and electronic media. The “mixed media” aspect of the work can be seamless, or the very juxtaposition of methods can be jarring. We are interested in all of it, all of the combining and reconfiguring, including using software in applications far different from those envisioned by their developers. The primary consideration is the very concept of Mixed Media, and the new aesthetic possibilities combining can bring.
Presenters and Speakers:
• Hybridization, HipHop and iOS Apps – Renata Janiszewska
• The Dialect of Digital Transformation – Deborah Cornell & Richard Cornell
• Floral Design + CODE – Yeohyun Ahn
• Adventures in Mixing It Up – Cynthia DiDonato
• Deconstruction of Everyday Patterns – Miho Aoki
• Painting the Digital Water – James Faure Walker
• Digital Combines: A Metamodern Genre for Contemporary Interdisciplinary Art Practice – Sue Beyer
• Unlimited Materials in a Digital Artwork – Sahar Moussavi
• Art, Culture, and Meditation: The Birth of “Ch’an Mind, Zen Mind” – Jing Zhou
• Transforming Computational Visual Music into Fine Art Monotype Prints – Sean Hongsheng Zhai
https://dac.siggraph.org/sparks/2023-03-mixing-it-up/