https://ncm.org.au/events/wyrmwear-workshop
How do we make meaning, through art, through networks, through technology, through symbolic form?
Our contemporary computational era is marked by the co-construction of meaning between humans and machines. The compromised environment in which this meaning-making occurs has created an urgent need to locate and practice alternative ways of reclaiming power and creativity. Stigmergy presents an alternative.
Beginning with a exhibition walkthrough of Stigmergy, this workshop, led by Jasmin Pfefferkorn and Sean McMorrow, picks up on the themes explored in the exhibition to discuss how we might understand digital art as symbolic form and how this understanding might reconfigure our productive agency within digital systems.
Wyrmware participants will produce a collaborative digital visual composition guided by the discussion, which will feed into the exhibition as an intervening artwork within the show. This co-authored compositional work will then find its archival niche on the NCM website.
Places in the workshop are limited and include access to NCM exhibitions. Registration is through an EOI process. EOIs open Friday 1 May and close Wednesday 30 June. Successful participants will be notified during the first week of July.