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Is it time to recognise that the art of ‘now’ is digital?

Can art be truly contemporary if it doesn’t embrace and address the digital world? After hearing strong and polarized reviews from friends, Linda Pittwood visits the Serpentine Sackler’s current digital installation by Ed Atkins and finds something genuinely original.

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Field Broadcast. Photo: Rob Smith
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Field Broadcast: “How to communicate the incommunicable nature of a landscape”

Over the next seven days a series of newly commissioned digital artworks will be transmitted from the heart of Constable Country live and direct to people’s computers or mobile devices. We talk to Field Broadcast directors Rebecca Birch and Rob Smith about their latest project, Scene on a Navigable River; and to one of the commissioned artists, Adam Chodzko.

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First Person Plural: the photographer in the age of social media

The First Person Plural conference at London’s Media Space set out to reflect on the legacy of photographer Tony Ray-Jones and examine issues associated with photography in the digital age, while also speculating on the medium’s future. Tim Clark reports from the one-day event.

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Tate IK Prize winner announced

Digital production company The Workers have won the new Tate IK prize to develop an ambitious online night time exploration of Tate Britain.

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Andrew Norman Wilson
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Photo50: “Most of the artists did not actually use a camera.”

For this year’s London Art Fair, Edel Assanti gallery has been invited to guest curate Photo50, focusing on the distinction between the material and the digital. We catch up with co-director Jeremy Epstein to learn more about the aesthetic dialogues they plan to draw out and the huge changes they are witnessing in the medium of photography.

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2013 – How was it for you? #10: Rohan Gunatillake

The Glasgow-based producer and entrepreneur is becoming an increasingly influential voice in the conversation around the arts and digital technologies. He looks back on a busy year that, amongst other things, has seen him join the Board of the British Council.

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Life before Wikipedia: Encyclopaedia of ‘not-always-expert’ opinions

Originally released on CD-ROM, Alan Currall’s Encyclopaedia could be seen as a forerunner of today’s information and social networking sites. Now available online as part of Film and Video Umbrella’s 25th anniversary programme, we speak to the artist about his encyclopaedia of “apparently ‘certain’ knowledge”, while FVU Director Steven Bode explains the thinking behind the organisation’s celebrations.

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Conference report: artists and technologists at Seven on Seven

The Seven on Seven conference in London paired seven artists with seven technologists and challenged them to create and present something new in 24 hours. But as Lesley Taker reports, the event was as much about developing new dialogues and potential future collaborations as it was about creating ‘neat’ outcomes.

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