Postdigital dysfunction in digital visual art and art education

Postdigital works of art disrupt utopian narratives of progress and perfection upon which much digital art is based. Postdigital works of art present socially relevant and critically potent opportunities for art educators to analyze these narratives, through dysfunctional forms of making that simult...

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Autor: Wilson Sweeny, Robert
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/177906
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/177906
https://dx.doi.org/10.12795/Communiars.2025.i13.03
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Postdigital art
Digital visual art education
Glitch art
Dysfunction
Arte postdigital
Educación artística digital y visual
Arte glitch
Disfunción
Arte pós-digital
Educação em arte digital e visual
Disfunção
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Sumario:Postdigital works of art disrupt utopian narratives of progress and perfection upon which much digital art is based. Postdigital works of art present socially relevant and critically potent opportunities for art educators to analyze these narratives, through dysfunctional forms of making that simultaneously draw from the past, present, and future. In this article, historical examples of visual art that use and address developing technologies will first be discussed, identifying utopian and dystopian themes. Next, the postdigital will be employed to analyze select digital visual works of art that further expand these themes. And finally, these postdigital works of art will be brought into a discussion with theories drawn from contemporary digital visual art education, with the goal that art educators can leverage the critical ways of making that these works of art represent.