8 The Eight Principles of Digital Art © John Knight

Artech Conference Obidos March 19th

2015

8 The 8 principles are a taxonomy drawn from analysing the use of technology in the domain of digital art

8 The 8 principles categorise digital artworks adequately

8 Sort of……….

8 The principles are derived from reviewing works, creating and testing categories and then documenting them

8 The principles are not based on traditional artistic categories e.g. Historical Thematic

Aesthetic Political

8 The principles are based on the use of technology for production and consumption

8 The hypothesis is that technological innovation has driven change in production and consumption

TECH IN PRODUCTION

TECH IN CONSUMPTION

The 8 Principles

AUTOMATION PRESENTATION

DISTRIBUTION

IMMERSION

INTERACTION SIMULATION

TRANSFORMATION EXPLORATION

PR

OD

UC

TIO

N

CO

NS

UM

PTI

ON

8 The Eight Principles of Digital Art

AUTOMATION

Harold Cohen – Aaron

PRESENTATION

The Wooster Group – To You The Birdie

DISTRIBUTION

Paper Tiger –TVTV

INTERACTION

Paul Smetana – The Room of Desires

IMMERSION

Jeffrey Shaw – EVE

SIMULATION

Ken Feingold

EXPLORATION

Antonio Muntadas – The File Room

TRANSFORMATION

Larry Cuba

8 The Eight Principles Of Digital Art © John Knight

Artech Conference Obidos March 19th

2015

The Extensions

AUTOMATION

MANIPULATION RECONSTRUCTION

PRODUCTION EDITING

The Extensions

PRESENTATION

LO-FI HI-FI

AUGMENTATION COMPILATION

The Extensions

DISTRIBUTION

MEDIATION DISRUPTION

CURATION AGGREGATION

The Extensions

INTERACTION

DYNAMIC CO-CREATED

CO-LOCATION EXPERIIENTIAL

The Extensions

SIMULATION

UNREAL SURREAL

ARTIFICIAL HUMAN-MACHINE

The Extensions

IMMERSION

FLOW EXPERIENCE MULTISENSORY

PANORAMIC EXTENSIBLE

The Extensions

TRANSFORMATION

PERPETUAL OPEN-ENDED

GENERATIVE RESPONSIVE

The Extensions

EXPLORATION

SATIFIRCAL INNOVATION

SELF-REFERENCING

REFLECTIVE

8 JOHN KNIGHT"

@WorldofKnight John.knight@aalto.fi

Artech Conference Obidos March 19th

2015