Category: Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art

Background and Acknowledgements This book is initiated with intentions of contributing insight and reflection on how contemporary art is changing in the era of the digital. It embraces an expanded field of contemporary art, one that evolves not only within…

Conclusion: Horizons for Nordic Contemporary Art by Tanya Toft Ag Contemporary art has evolved in parallel with digital technologies and the ways in which these have impacted societies – and will continue to do so. The digital influences the matter…

Digital Dragons of the North: On Digital Dynamics and New Nature in Nordic Aesthetics by Stahl Stenslie Stenslie characterizes in this chapter a dynamic of technological optimism in terms of a visionary and passionate relationship with new technologies, which he…

Visions and Divides in Icelandic Contemporary Art by Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir Ólafsdóttir depicts a digital dynamic characteristic of the adaptation of digital technology in the context of Icelandic society, located in the divide between scepticism and enthusiasm in attitude to…

Where the Inaction Is: The Politics of Digital Things and the Significance of the Lab… in the Practices of Laura Beloff, Kollision and Mogens Jacobsen by Morten Søndergaard Søndergaard examines an opposite mode to the dynamic of ‘interaction’ in the…

Interactivity Dynamics by Lorella Scacco In this chapter, Scacco examines a digital dynamic of interactivity of digitally informed systems and infrastructures in contemporary artworks. She traces various modes of interaction within the artistic practices of bioart, light installations, electronic and…

Critical Thoroughness: The Dynamics of the Artist as User and Producer of Digital Elements by Mette-Marie Zacher Sørensen In this chapter, Sørensen examines a digital dynamic of digital material crafting by which ‘users’ of digital culture simultaneously become producers of…

Computational Diffusion and Art’s Radical Rematerialization by Tanya Toft Ag This chapter characterizes a dynamic of computational diffusion that transforms all urban surfaces, materials, architectures and infrastructures of our world. I describe how this dynamic is reflected in a conceptual…