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Recent exhibition attempts to recuperate and revise Conceptual Art — ‘Open Systems’ (2005), ‘Invisible: Art About the Unseen’ (2012) — have brought to the fore wider discursive concerns regarding coding, interfaces and artistic intentionality. Taking its lead from Rosalind Krauss’ seminal work on the post-medium condition, this paper argues that the continued privileging of interface/display-user inherent within artistic discourse belies a more nuanced reading of the critical relationship between artist and code. Furthermore, this paper explores new practices in Computer Art and its related theorisation by Tanaka-Ishii and Dominic Lopes, with a view to re-conceptualising the relationship between artistic intentionality, coding, interface and user input. Based on this re-conceptualisation we identify the ‘postdisplay condition of contemporary computer art’, a condition that neither privileges userdisplay communication, nor the space between code and user, but rather envelopes meaning production between all elements of an artwork.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	internet art, post-internet art, semiology, code, coding, contemporary art
Research Division:	Creative Arts and Writing
Research Group:	Art history, theory and criticism
Research Field:	Visual cultures
Objective Division:	Culture and Society
Objective Group:	Arts
Objective Field:	The creative arts
UTAS Author:	Juliff, T (Dr Toby Juliff)
ID Code:	123835
Year Published:	2015
Deposited By:	Office of the School of Creative Arts and Media
Deposited On:	2018-01-30
Last Modified:	2018-02-08
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