"Silent Code: Unspectacular Art Moves Within the Digital" | Focus Digital 2023

TALKING GALLERIES
Focus Digital
26-27 June 2023
Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Panel discussion
“Silent Code: Unspectacular Art Moves Within the Digital”
Speakers
- Matthew Fuller, Professor of Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths, University of London
- Joana Moll, artist and researcher, Barcelona
Moderated by Anna Manubens, Director, Hangar, Barcelona
This conversation brings together profiles that, despite being leading voices in the digital, media, software, and computing worlds, express some reluctance when it comes to being categorized under the term “digital art.” Their meeting raises questions about the-political?, cultural?, bureaucratic?, artistic?-aspects involved in defining and delineating a particular type of practice, field, or discipline. What expectations or aesthetic habits are nurtured by this category? What is excluded or left out? This reflection weaves together the artistic trajectory of Joana Moll with the conceptual contributions of Matthew Fuller (such as his idea of art as a meta-discipline), and the perspective of Hangar, a center that has been actively engaged with digital indiscipline.