Category: Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art

Virtual Worldmaking: Cultivating Digital Art Practice by Elizabeth Jochum and Mads Deibjerg Lind This chapter examines a dynamic of interdisciplinary fusion. In particular, the chapter explores how digital innovation traverses art, entertainment and industries, with Virtual Reality as an example…

In Between Worlds by Björn Norberg Norberg addresses in his chapter a dynamic of real and virtual fusion, a condition of digital culture by which the natural and artificially mediated environments increasingly merge together in augmented scenarios and designs of everyday…

Intertwining of the Digital and the Biological in the Artistic Practice by Laura Beloff In this chapter, Beloff examines a dynamic of scientification in the biological realm and the recent shift in technology-based arts towards techno-organic works and practices, which…

Reformulations of the “Natural” World: Jana Winderen’s Sound Installation The Wanderer by Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen In this chapter, Jørgensen addresses a tendency of fixation and quantification of nature as scientific phenomenon. Jørgensen elaborates on how the quantification of nature tends…

Uneasy Listening: Perspectives on (Nordic) Sound Art After the Digital by Budhaditya Chattopadhyay This chapter examines a digital dynamic of spatiotemporal disembodiment, identified in how soundscapes of everyday life have become increasingly ‘unsitely’ – disorienting and juxtaposing soundscapes from other…

Representation, Complexity and Control: Three Aspects of Technology-Based Sonic Art by Jøran Rudi In this chapter, Rudi identifies a digital dynamic of data convergence into binary representation. This is a mechanism by which discrete numbers within digital media replace continuous…

The Art of Instituting by Jamie Allen and Bernhard Garnicnig The authors examine a digital dynamic within a networked sense of collectivity, and how this has influenced and enabled institutional experimental sites of thinking and production. They locate a tendency…

Concretism and Danish Digital Art – New Political Dialogues from an Avant-Garde Perspective by Jens Tang Kristensen In this chapter, Kristensen identifies how a dynamic of technical fetishism in contemporary art can be detected in the post-war art movement known…

Dynamic Seclusion: Nordic Noir and Digital Culture by Jonatan Habib Engqvist The chapter examines the ‘Nordic’ term in relation to art in detail and with thorough attention to its coming about and philosophical complexity in the Nordic cultural context. He…