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EDITORIAL

Interactive Frontiers – New Frontiers

Contemporary artists who merge art and science are exploring a new world, a “world of packets” as Albertine Meunier calls it, determined by new units of measurement: How do we measure the speed of the Internet? How do these data packets transform our daily lives, between connection and disconnection, micro-actions and collective actions?

In this issue, two pioneers of digital art share their thoughts on the convergence of art and science, which is defining new creative horizons: Jeffrey Shaw, with his “Future Cinema” installations and his latest interactive artwork made in collaboration with Sinan Goo: Fall Again, Fall Better (title inspired by Samuel Beckett). Norbert Hillaire shares his notes on a work-in-progress, his “photomobiles”, an iPhone series that plays on “the relationship between ecstatic, frozen time and a time of change, mobility and perpetual movement, between slowness and speed”.

Also featured is an interview with Wolf Lieser of the Digital Art Museum in Berlin, as a trailblazer in the integration of digital works into the art market, reports from Transmediale and the CTM Festival, two events focused on research and practices that merge art and technology, a guided tour of the Arts-Sciences workshop in Grenoble…

“New Frontier” was the theme of this year’s Sundance festival program dedicated to digital art, immersive experiences, video mapping, etc.; and it could be the sub-title of the Futurotextiles exhibition on smart applications and clothing.

Geolocation: In April, Digitalarti inaugurates a bilingual website to promote the network of French organizations that are actively involved with digital and multimedia art, based on the Guide to Resources and Art Spaces published by MCD with support from the French Ministry of Culture: www.guideartnumerique.fr
A new topography to be discovered…

Anne-Cécile Worms, editor in chief

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