8th Computer Art Congress

October 30 - November 2, 2024

National University of La Plata, Argentina

The Computer Art Congress (CAC) is a peer-reviewed multidisciplinary academic gathering that interrogates art and sciences from different angles. First, as a network of actors, CAC studies the collaborations and practices among creators, producers, designers, curators, critics, scholars, archivists, collectors, historians, archaeologists, technicians, engineers, and the public in general. CAC.8 invites to consider minority and under-represented communities playing those roles at local and regional level.

Second, as a collection of materials and forms, CAC puts attention on the ways in which actors use hardware, software, scientific artifacts, surfaces, supports, and forces. Actors develop hybrid methods to work with matter to produce objects, images, experiences, effects, impacts, consciousness, illusions, critical thinking, stories, histories, genealogies, but also datasets, visualizations, sonifications, and materializations. CAC.8 is an opportunity to explore forms and matters in a speculative yet possible manifestation: What happens outside the scope of human perception? Which materials are sustainable to preserve and to collect? How to create long-standing and inter-generational artworks?

Third, as an academic and intellectual contribution, CAC interrogates how actors understand the current trends and main issues of our contemporary world. In this respect, theories, paradigms, traditions, methodologies, workflows, algorithms, schemes, ontologies, monads, ideas, and epistemologies are intertwined in the work and effects of artworks and experiences. Following this line, CAC.8 asks in which sense is artificial intelligence a new order of thinking? How the increasing interest in generative media modifies culture and traditions? How biases, and our overall implicit way of being, are projected throughout the creation process?

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