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In the Line of Flight: Changing Practices in Digital Art

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This chapter continues to explore digital art’s ability to localise globalisation, though focussing upon the micro, affective and personal experiences of participants. Key artworks from the exhibition In the Line of Flight are used as examples. With a focus upon ‘changing practices in digital art, this chapter will examine a global exhibition held in synchrony with an international symposium in Beijing. This exhibition also showcases contemporary practices in the curation of digital artworks. It will explore curators’ understandings of digital art, and how it might offer critical perspectives on globalisation. The inclusion of this chapter and its sequencing in the book is designed to enable direct comparisons to be made to the Metropolis exhibition discussed in the previous chapter. It also points to some of the diverse practices characteristic of digital art, foregrounded in Chap. 2.

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Langdon, M. (2014). In the Line of Flight: Changing Practices in Digital Art. In: The Work of Art in a Digital Age: Art, Technology and Globalisation. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1270-4_7

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