[SIGCIS-Members] Session proposal on "The Computer and the Arts" for SHOT 2019

Giuditta Parolini giudittaparolini at gmail.com
Tue Feb 26 08:05:01 PST 2019


Dear SIGCIS members,
I am seeking presenters and a chair for a session on "The Computer and the
Arts" at the forthcoming SHOT 2019 meeting in Milan. SIGCIS has kindly
accepted to sponsor the proposal. A short description of the session is
below. Please let me have preliminary expressions of interest by 4 March 2019
. If you have any question, do not hesitate to contact me at
*giuditta.parolini at tu-berlin.de
<giuditta.parolini at tu-berlin.de>*.

Best regards,
Giuditta

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*Society for the History of Technology*, Annual meeting 2019, Milan, 24-27
October 2019
Session proposal "The Computer and the Arts"
Organiser: Dr Giuditta Parolini, TU Berlin
Description: From the 1950s onwards the computer has not only been a
technology used in science and business for computation and data
management, but it has also become an artists’ tool. Musicians, visual
artists, writers, theatre performers have begun to use computers in their
work resulting in mutual contaminations between the arts and the sciences.
Already in the 1960s, Jasia Reichardt, curator of one of the earliest
exhibitions on digital art, *Cybernetic Serendipity* (1968), pointed out
that the use of the computer in the arts generated a two-way process in
which there was space not only for artists’ involvement with science, but
also for scientists’ involvement with the arts.
The session will explore this two-way process by presenting case studies of
interactions between artists, scientists and technologies in the twentieth
and twenty-first century. It will discuss the technical issues encountered
in producing digital artworks, the new opportunities for creative work
brought by the development of improved computer hardware and software, the
changing role of the artist within digital art, and the necessity to
negotiate authorship between artists, technicians and scientists.
By investigating digital art and the mutual interaction between scientists
and artists, the session will contribute to explore the cross-fertilisation
of technology, art and design, which is SHOT’s conference theme this year.
The proposal is sponsored by SIGCIS, SHOT Special Interest Group on
Computers, Information and Society.
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Dr Giuditta Parolini
Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Technische Universität Berlin
Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
Sekretariat H23
Straße des 17. Juni, 135; 10623 Berlin; Germany
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