The digital art paradox: understanding its issues and dynamics

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Beatriz Lopes
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/28550
• topic: Digital art; Art world; Mainstream; Disavowal; Immateriality; Direito de autor -- Copyright; Authenticity; Arte digital; Mundo da arte; Rejeição; Imaterialidade; Autenticidade

Over the years there has been a clear separation – the disavowal - from the mainstream art world and digital art. The main triggering point of this dissertation is to understand the paradoxical nature of this relationship from the start, coming from the basilar literature and data observation. Digital art, despite being a concept that began in the 1950s, still lacks consensus from the big art institutions, the academia, and the overall audience, to this date. As it can be categorized, this movement has a complex ongoing history that can help to understand the intrinsic aspects of digital art that have been creating this gap for all these years. The central aspect that explains the digital art paradox is the relationship between its external factors – the art institutions and organizations – and the internal factors – the immateriality issue and the problem of authenticity and copyright in the digital world. The present dissertation attempts to analyze this relationship and to draw some considerations for the future of art in the growing and thriving digital era.