Bachelor Thesis - @Accademia di Brera (Milano)

New Media Art

Abstract: The “digital” in “digital art” is not just the medium but very often the content itself. Digital art uses digital technologies precisely to discuss digital technologies; it demystifies, abuses, and hijacks them, explores their purposes and limitations, but most importantly, it questions the way we are shaping our technologies and reveals the way these technologies are shaping us.

The so-called “physical world” and “virtual world” are but mere stereotypes by now, nothing more than metaphors suggesting a clear division between two environments that instead coexist in a big mesh, entangled in all sorts of twists and knots impossible to unravel. Just like in a fantasy novel, these two worlds are at war, and the border separating them falls apart, it crumbles becoming faint and hazy.

In this sense, then, we’ll interpret the role of a war correspondent; we’ll type a dispatch about the ongoing encroachment, their dynamics and causes. Our photographs portray the works of the artists who have mastered the language of new media and are exploiting it to ponder today’s condition, one in which online and offline blend together in a constant dialogue, the software fuses with the hardware, the real indistinguishable from the simulation, androids are ever so akin to their humanity, and humans are left to take on the role of androids.