CHArt Eighteenth Annual Conference

Melina Berkenwald, London, UK
Exploring the Use of Digital Technologies in Art Practice

In this paper I explore the way in which a small group of contemporary artists (that relate to the practice of painting) employs digital technologies to produce and display their work. Following the analysis and findings from the fieldwork of my doctorate I will describe how these artists first encountered the computer and why they preferred it to more traditional means. This analysis makes reference to the use of the computer as a studio and to new uses of time and space in image making according to some of the work processes enabled by the computer. I will then address practitioners' preferences regarding the exhibition of their work, which includes a discussion on the printing of the work and its online representation, the role of the traditional gallery and of the Internet. Throughout this paper I intend to illuminate matters that determine digital media as available resources in painting, and their effect in the tradition of this practice.

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