The Sculptural in the (Post-)Digital Age

Digital technologies have profoundly impacted the arts and expanded the field of sculpture since the 1950s. Art history, however, continues to pay little attention to sculptural works that are conceived and 'materialized' using digital technologies. How can we rethink the artistic medium in relation to our technological present and its historical precursors? A number of theoretical approaches discuss the implications of the so-called 'Aesthetics of the Digital', referring, above all, to screen-based phenomena. For the first time, this publication brings together international and trans-historical research perspectives to explore how digital technologies re-configure the understanding of sculpture and the sculptural leading into the (post-)digital age. - Up-to-date research on digital technologies' expansion of the concept of sculpture Linking historical sculptural debates with discourse on the new media and (post)digital culture

Mara-Johanna Kölmel ist assoziierte Direktorin der Ausstellungsplatform Peer to Space. Sie promovierte an der Leuphana Universität zu Sculpture in the Augmented Sphere und erwarb ihren MA am Courtauld Institute of Art. Ursula Ströbele leitet das Studienzentrum zur Kunst der Moderne und Gegenwart am ZI München. Sie forscht seit Jahren zu skulpturrelevanten Themen, zuletzt zur skulpturalen Ästhetik des Lebendigen und digitalen, virtuellen Skulptur.