Recent exhibition attempts to recuperate and revise Conceptual Art — ‘Open Systems’ (2005), ‘Invisible: Art About the Unseen’ (2012) — have brought to the fore wider discursive concerns regarding coding, interfaces and artistic intentionality. Taking its lead from Rosalind Krauss’ seminal work on the post-medium condition, this paper argues that the continued privileging of interface/display-user inherent within artistic discourse belies a more nuanced reading of the critical relationship between artist and code. Furthermore, this paper explores new practices in Computer Art and its related theorisation by Tanaka-Ishii and Dominic Lopes, with a view to re-conceptualising the relationship between artistic intentionality, coding, interface and user input. Based on this re-conceptualisation we identify the ‘postdisplay condition of contemporary computer art’, a condition that neither privileges userdisplay communication, nor the space between code and user, but rather envelopes meaning production between all elements of an artwork.
History
Publication title
Electronic Melbourne Art Journal
Issue
8
Pagination
1-16
ISSN
1835-6656
Department/School
School of Creative Arts and Media
Publisher
Fine Arts Network
Place of publication
Australia
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