Digital art on display

A new exhibition has opened in the Lord Mayor’s Pavilion exploring digital art.

The exhibition, Data|Art presented by Sample-Studios, has been curated by Dr James O’Sullivan and features works of digital art by collaborative artist duo Clíona Harmey and Filip Berte as well as Cork-based artists Mícheál Ó Catháin and Andrew McSweeney.

Data|Art explores the tension between digital aesthetics and public consumption, algorithmic production and visual appeal. Digital art is often thought of as big, complex projects.

The careful and intentional craftsmanship that brings out the full potential of a form, both politically and aesthetically, is being overshadowed by the desire to keep up with the fast-changing world of media technology.

Dr James O’Sullivan, lecturer in Digital Humanities in UCC, said: “Data|Art shows how, in a world drowning in data, simple acts of complex expression, using that very same data in which we are drowning, remain possible and powerful.”

Artists who will contribute to the exhibition include Mícheál Ó Catháin, who is a Youghal-based multimedia artist working primarily with performance (early Gaelic harp and voice), computer code, installation.

The crossover between his parallel artistic and engineering careers finds expression in his audiovisual exhibitions and live performances he creates.

Andrew McSweeney is a Cork-based digital artist who primarily works with 3D software and new technologies. His work, ‘Trap’ is a digital simulation consisting of photogrammetric processes, animation, and audio.

Nul Punt Wolk is a project between Irish artist Cliona Harmey and Belgian artist Filip Berte (berte & harmey).

Nul Punt Wolk / BMo brings together 2 fragments which connect aerial imaging, aviation, mapping and landscape demarcation.