Drawing with the Web

Documentation from What is the Digital Draw?
Mon 18 April 2016 : 10:30am – 6:00pm

Drawing with the Web
Charlotte Webb, artist and researcher

Webb discussed the generative potential of using the web as a medium and location for art practice. She questioned what it means to ‘draw’ with data.  .

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What is the Digital Draw? took place Monday 18 April 2016. Bringing together key thinkers in the field, the day-long seminar featured presentations and panel discussions exploring what ‘the digital’ means for drawing today. Speakers examined topics including: the aesthetics of drawing in the post-internet age; the open-ended nature of digital practice; the use of the Internet as a medium; approaches to ‘drawing’ with data; and histories and technologies of computer art. 

Contributors included: James Bridle, writer, artist and technologist; Douglas Dodds, Senior curator of V&A Digital Art Collection; Mary Doyle, Drawing Room co-director; Rachel Falconer, independent writer and curator; Paul Flannery and Tim Steer, Opening Times co-founders; Rozsa Farkas, Independent curator and founding director of Arcadia Missa; Professor Frederic Fol Leymarie, Professor of Computer Games and Entertainment at Goldsmiths College; Margarita Gluzberg, artist and reader in Contemporary Visual Production at the Royal College of Art, London; Charlotte Webb, artist and researcher; Lucy Sollitt, Creative Media Manager for Arts Council and an associate for Rhizome; Klaus Speidel, art and image theorist, art critic and curator; Nimrod Vardi, curator and director of arebyte gallery. What is the Digital Draw? was programmed by Laura Eldret, artist.

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