Prospectives 2022 Digital Art and Activism Online Symposium

July 8th 2022, 09:00 - 18:00BST
Prospectives 2022 - Digital Art and Activism is a 1-day international symposium inviting current post-graduate/Masters/PhD students to share how they are exploring, challenging and experimenting with digital systems to effect change within our social and political realities. Prospectives 2022 - Digital Art and Activism will examine how emerging artists and scholars are engaging uncertain futures through an exploration of the creative and critical potential of digital art and technology and the continued relevance and impact of past and present practices, theories and strategies. We will feature papers and presentations from current post-graduate/Masters/PhD students whose research investigates, assesses, contextualises, critiques, and engages with digital art, culture, and activism. Themes may include: environmentalism, gender equality, exploitation, colonialism, militarism, emancipation, body rights, surveillance, and political economies of new media. We seek to highlight a diversity of approaches to new technologies, including but not limited to: videogames/critical play; blockchain; internet art; digital fabrication; interactive art; social media; computer animation; video art; performance and mixed reality; immersive technologies, AI/machine learning, etc.

This iteration of Prospectives is partnered with the RSE funded Digital Art and Activism Network, Co-chaired by Professor Joseph DeLappe (Abertay University, Dundee); Dr Laura Leuzzi (Researcher at Sapienza University of Rome and Honorary Fellow at RGU, Aberdeen); and Dr Martin Zeilinger (Abertay University, Dundee).