Index

Contents

Foreword vii
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Introduction 1
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Part 1 17
Directory 19
Artist Testimonials 31
 On Being an Artist with the Digital 33
 On Digital Tools, Methods and Research Processes 40
 On Materiality and Behaviour in Digital Art 52
 On Art Between Forms and Fields 59
 On Perception and Art’s Experience 65
 On Nordic Aesthetic Conditions and Identification 70
 On Participatory Practices and Collaboration 83
 On Art and Society 88
 On (Alternative, Urban and Public) Spaces for Digital Art 94
 On Art and Representation 99
 On Art, Nature and Environment 107

Part 2 113
Dynamic Seclusion: Nordic Noir and Digital Culture 115
Jonatan Habib Engqvist

Concretism and Danish Digital Art: New Political Dialogues from an Avant-Garde Perspective 127
Jens Tang Kristensen

The Art of Instituting 145
Jamie Allen and Bernhard Garnicnig

Representation, Complexity and Control: Three Aspects of Technology-Based Sonic Art  161
Jøran Rudi

Uneasy Listening: Perspectives on (Nordic) Sound Art after the Digital 179
Budhaditya Chattopadhyay

Reformulations of the ‘Natural’ World: Jana Winderen’s Sound Installation The Wanderer 197
Ulla Angkjær Jørgensen

The Intertwining of the Digital and the Biological in Artistic Practice 209
Laura Beloff

In Between Worlds 229
Björn Norberg

Virtual Worldmaking: Cultivating Digital Art Practice 243
Elizabeth Jochum and Mads Deibjerg Lind

Computational Diffusion and Art’s Radical Rematerialization 259
Tanya Toft Ag

Critical Thoroughness: The Dynamics of the Artist as User and Producer of Digital Elements 275
Mette-Marie Zacher Sørensen

Interactivity Dynamics 287
Lorella Scacco

Where the Inaction Is: The Politics of Digital Things and the Significance of the Lab… In the Practices of Laura Beloff, Kollision and Mogens Jacobsen 301
Morten Søndergaard

Visions and Divides in Icelandic Contemporary Art 315
Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir

Digital Dragons of the North: On Digital Dynamics and New Nature in Nordic Aesthetics 331
Stahl Stenslie

Conclusion: Horizons for Nordic Contemporary (Digital) Art 349
Tanya Toft Ag

Notes on Authors 363
Index 369