ARIN3630 Digital Arts
length: 2000 words (excluding references)
weighting: 40%
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As the semester progresses, you will be compiling a Final Essay on your artist of choice**, which you will submit in an essay form. at the end of the semester. Your essay must explore, analyse, and critique a digital art collection using four of the topics discussed throughout the semester, showing a thoughtful engagement with relevant weekly readings as well as evidence of independent research. Use specific examples to illustrate and support your argument. You should add 1-4 images of the works you discuss, embedded within your paper to support your discussion of the works and your arguments about this work.
Notes
Your essay should demonstrate a thoughtful engagement with relevant weekly readings as well as evidence of independent research with regard to your project.
Use specific examples to illustrate your ideas. You may not discuss the same artworks that you have already discussed in your Tutorial Presentation and/or Review.
You should draw inspiration from artists and case studies that were not discussed in the readings and lectures;
Please be sure to properly reference and attribute the readings and external sources you use in your work, including any photographs you embed in the paper. Please be consistent in your referencing style. and make sure you acknowledge all your sources.
**The selection of an artist of your choice is a creative choice on your part that will guide and shape your Final Essay. Below is a list of highly recommended digital artists you can draw upon for inspiration. You are also strongly supported to select from outside of this list. If you select someone outside the list please tell your tutor about your proposed artist before hand.
List of Artists:
Refik Anadol – Data-driven immersive environments, AI visualisation
Mario Klingemann – Generative art, AI aesthetics, neural networks
Anna Ridler – AI, data storytelling, poetic datasets
Memo Akten – Complex systems, machine learning, ethics of AI
Harshit Agrawal – Cross-cultural AI art and traditional craft
Casey Reas – Generative code, co-founder of Processing
Zach Lieberman – Creative coding, generative graphics, interaction
Lauren McCarthy – Performance with AI, surveillance, intimacy
James Bridle – Systems, data infrastructure, algorithmic critique
Tega Brain – Environmental systems, code, and resistance
Hasan Elahi – Surveillance, self-tracking, data transparency
Mimi Onuoha – Missing data, algorithmic bias, civic technology
Addie Wagenknecht – Feminist tech, privacy, internet infrastructure
JODI (Joan Heemskerk & Dirk Paesmans) – Internet art pioneers
Evan Roth – Networked performance, critical infrastructure
Petra Cortright – Webcam aesthetics, digital painting, net art
Jon Rafman – Internet subcultures, virtuality, affect
Rachel Rossin – Mixed-reality abstraction, painting + digital mesh
Amalia Ulman – Instagram-based performance, identity fabrication
Jenny Odell – Digital labour, attention economies
Holly Herndon – AI voice, vocal manipulation, sonic futurism
Ryoji Ikeda – Data sonification, audio-visual minimalism
Christina Kubisch – Electromagnetic soundscapes
Zimoun – Kinetic sound sculptures with industrial materials
Lawrence Abu Hamdan – Sonic justice, surveillance, forensic listening
Tarek Atoui – Experimental sound, collaborative performance
Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller – Audio walks, immersive sound theatre
Camille Norment – Sonic architecture, memory, Nordic resonance
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer – Interactive public installations, biometric data
Justine Emard – AI and robotics in immersive video installations
Lawrence Lek – Speculative VR architecture, digital fictions
Yiyun Kang – Site-specific projection, narrative mapping
Tamiko Thiel – VR/AR narratives, memory and cultural heritage
Jakob Kudsk Steensen – Ecological storytelling in VR
Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho – Multichannel installations on futures
Stelarc – Body hacking, prosthetics, human-machine hybrids
Heather Dewey-Hagborg – Biotech, DNA privacy, identity
Stephanie Dinkins – AI, race, familial memory
Lucy McRae – Speculative biotech, human futures
Marco Donnarumma – Biofeedback performance, body technologies
Cecile B. Evans – Post-human affect, digital collapse
Martine Syms – Media and identity, Blackness and image economies
Choy Ka Fai – Techno-spiritual choreography, neuroscience
Sondra Perry – Racialised embodiment in digital space
Victoria Vesna – Nano/bio-art, embodied interface
Stéphane Degoutin & Gwenola Wagon – Posthuman environments, speculation
Jenna Sutela – Microbial language, machine intuition
Jenny Odell – Tech critique, non-productivity as resistance
Rashaad Newsome – Black futurism, performance, and AI
Christina Kubisch – Embodied electromagnetic listening
Nao Bustamante – Queer performance with emerging tech
LaTurbo Avedon – Avatar identity, networked performance
Skawennati – Indigenous cyberpunk, machinima storytelling
Miyarkka Media – Yolngu multimedia art and cultural transmission
Cyborg Arts (collective) – Interdisciplinary body/tech explorations
SymbioticA (Oron Catts & Ionat Zurr) – Wetware lab, bio art
Moon Kyungwon & Jeon Joonho – Interdisciplinary collaborations on social futures
Marking criteria
Use of relevant concepts and frameworks from class with regard to your artwork of choice;
Focused discussion of your artist/collective of choice with reference to relevant weekly readings and other relevant literature showing evidence of research and critical analysis;
Creativity and effort in expressing, presenting and conveying artistic ideas in addition to material discussed in lectures and tutorials;
Style, organisation, and presentation;
Use of links and appropriate referencing to acknowledge other sources and artworks.