⚫️ The New Atlas of Digital Art
“The New Atlas of Digital Art” is a conference organised by “MEET Digital Culture Center”, in collaboration with the National Museum of Digital Art in Italy (MAD), and aims to presents a wide-ranging reflection to promote and investigate the jagged scenario of digital art in Europe and highlight the potential of “digital native” artistic experiments as drivers of societal innovation.
The program will be spread over three days-June 23-25 in Milan, and will involve participants on three thematic tables that will address key issues, such as the relationship between art, science and technology, the digital art market experimenting with NFT and Blockchain new cultural and economic models, and the development of immersive art from virtual reality to metaverses and beyond
Through a series of testimonies, the event will offer an overview of the developments of Italian and European digital art, suspended between past and present, to explore the different trajectories of contemporaneity, as keys to reading the future.
Through multiple technologies and expressive languages chosen by the artists (from new media art, to multimedia installations, up to metaverses and recent experiments with Artificial Intelligence), the conference aims to recompose an Atlas of Digital Art starting from its roots to activate a new awareness capable of interpreting the present by looking ahead, not only through a cultural perspective but by opening to scenarios of economic and social transformation. The visions of artists who experiment with technology often turn out to be pioneering and bearers of social and economic innovations.
The European scene, rich in institutions, cultural centers and creative realities that have been active in the field of digital art for decades, represents the reference horizon for the analysis, reflection and presentation of different creative experiences. Indeed, the European Union has pointed to digital art as a source of social as well as cultural and economic innovation to inspire and push young people to gain new perspectives and visions through creative and technological experimentation.
The discussion will be introduced by an initial plenary meeting in which the aims and program under discussion will be presented, and a final moment to return the results of the work to the audience.
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The New Atlas of Digital Art program