Book launch for Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art
Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art recasts the Nordic art context in an expanding digital condition and reveals horizontal ways to write its histories.
Saturday 23 February 2019
Scandinavia House, 2nd floor, 58 Park Ave, New York City
1.30 pm welcome and artist introduction
2.00 pm participatory performance
3.00 pm book lecture by Tanya Toft Ag
Reception
Offering an in-depth exploration of art’s contingent evolution with technology and digital culture, this book goes far beyond familiar depictions of ‘Nordic aesthetics’ in art.
Digital Dynamics in Nordic Contemporary Art examines how digital technology and culture profoundly changes contemporary art because it changes the life worlds, imaginations and tools of artists, the conditions for art’s production and distribution, and artists’ sense of agency and capacity to affect the world and tackle current urgencies. The book explores art’s role and inquiries especially in response to changing conditions of the welfare state – affected by technology, globalization, and current shifts in international outlook. First-hand perspectives of pioneering and pivotal artists form the basis of chapters penned by leading scholars and curators of Nordic art. The book offers an embracive, multi-perspective tour through and beyond artistic experiments, conceptual reconfigurations, and new modes of artistic agency in the Nordic context(s), and in the wider world.
The book launch will begin with a participatory performance by Swedish artists Lundahl & Seitl, followed by a book lecture by Tanya Toft Ag.
Tanya Toft Ag (editor) is a curator and scholar specializing in media and digital art and its urban implications.
More information, including how to register, here: http://digitaldynamics.art/book-launch-nyc/
