The 'e' Prefix: e-Science, e-Art

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The 'e' Prefix e-Science, e-Art the New
Creativity

• Gregory Sporton, Director, Visualisation Research
  Unit

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The e- Prefix

• What does it mean?
• The emergence of e- community
• Early adopters and Innovators
• Locus of creativity
• Impact on the Performing Visual Arts

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NCSA
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University Culture

• Nogs Sogs
• Science and Engineering
• Arts Humanities
• Divisions of
• Labour
• Resources

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The Two Cultures

• Snow (1959, 1963)
• Mutual suspicion and incomprehension
• Sciences/Humanities
• intellectuals as natural Luddites
• Leavis (1962)
• Problems solved by a single interpretation?

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e-Science defined

• Pooling of computing power
• Functionality
• Distribution
• Shared resources

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What it means

• Synthetic invention
• e- prefix invoked regularly
• Craft practice distinction
• Doesnt threaten existing subject culture
• Can be flexibly applied

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Technologies in Creative Practice

• Digitised analogues
• Supporting or replicating existing workflows
• Computer as additional tool
• Continuing focus on individual practice

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The Art Problem

• Deep subject loyalties
• Overvalued craft practice
• Art mythologies
• Transcendental
• Expressive
• Cultural
• Individual

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The e-Art Problem

• Creative response to the technology
• Interactivity (a number) of creative intentions
• Reformulation of resources
• Final work?

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e-Science Creativity

• Relationship?
• Locus of Creativity?
• Dependence on technology?

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Agenda for Early Adopters

• Acquiring sufficient resources
• Training
• Making links with computer science
• Clarity of purpose
• Examine the properties of technology through play
• Differentiate e-practice from practice
• Emphasis on experimentation

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e-Creativity

• Community of interest
• Collaboration
• Requires an understanding of technology
• Authorship questions?
• Changes audience relationships
• Interaction with art/performance

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Research Problems

• Development of specific software/platforms for
  Arts applications
• Security
• Intellectual property rights
• Lessons from science use of e-Science
• Real Virtual

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The e-Culture

• Foregrounding of technology
• Creativity through the technology
• Differentiation
• Background
• Digital natives

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Summary

• e-Science and meaning
• Agenda for e-Science in the e-Arts
• Creativity in e-Art context
• Backgrounding of e-Culture

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Information

• Visualisation Research Unit
• www.biad.uce.ac.uk/vru
• Workshop _at_ VRU, Friday July 20th
• http//www.biad.uce.ac.uk/vru/collaborativeart/ind
  ex.php
• Gregory Sporton
• gregory.sporton_at_uce.ac.uk