“Disrupting Art: How Artists Can Use New Technologies to Survive and Thrive” on December 10, 2018
The Arts & Culture Alliance is pleased to present a professional development seminar for artists and other creative people on Monday, December 10, from 5:30-6:30 PM at the Emporium Center in downtown Knoxville. Join us as we welcome Amy Fletcher!
We are living in an era of rapid technological change. This seminar looks at how several key technologies are affecting art production and promotion. From artificial intelligence (AI), which raises the prospect of sophisticated machine art, to blockchain (a digital ledger in which transactions made in bitcoin or another cryptocurrency are recorded chronologically and publicly), which could disrupt and democratize the art market, new technologies present both opportunities and challenges for established and emerging artists.
This seminar will begin by putting these developments in accessible terms and then move to a discussion of how artists can leverage the power of new technology while learning to avoid the pitfalls. No prior technological or scientific background is necessary to engage with this seminar, just an interest in art and artists in the twenty-first century.
Amy Fletcher (PhD, University of Georgia) is a native of Knoxville, who moved to Christchurch, New Zealand in 2000 to take up a Lecturer’s position in political science and politics. Her area of expertise is the cultural and social dimensions of new technologies, and she specializes in public communication of science and technology. She is currently working on a B.A. Honours degree in Art History at the University of Canterbury, with a focus on how artists such as Andy Warhol have historically used new technologies both to produce art and to navigate the professional art market.