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Arts and Computer symposuim

09.10.2019

The new computer and media art challenges the traditional art world – its customary methods of presentation and documentation, as well as its approach to collection and preservation. The contemporary art world has seen a recent explosion in the use of computers and digital media over the last decade. Due in part to technology improvements and dramatically declining costs, digital and computer technology has arrived as a component of everyday life and contemporary art on a global scale. In Computer and New Media-Art artists are able to get acquainted with the newest forms of creation and communication. The artists learn to identify what is or isn’t “new” about certain technologies. Science will always present new tools and platforms for artists that learn how to sort through new emerging technological platforms and place them in a larger context of sensation and communication.

This is the focus of the Arts and Computer symposium organized with the participation of the University of Padua, Ca' Foscari, University of California Irvine, La Biennale di Venezia.
The conference, which hosts Italian and international speakers, is divided into two sessions. The first one on October 15 and on the morning of October 16 will take place at University Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Aula Magna Silvio Trentin, Auditorium Ca’ Dolfin; activities on the afternoon of October 16, will be at Romanian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Giardini and at the Instituto Romeno di Cultura e Ricerca Umanistica.

Registration/entrance is free, and the public is invited.