Digital re-materialisation: towards a post-digital perspective in contemporary art research and practice

DIGICOM 2022. Conferência Internacional, realizado em Barcelos, de 3-5 de novembro de 2022.In the last decade and a half, we have witnessed the emergence of aesthetics instantiated through digital media as a form of expression of artistic and cultural contemporaneity, supported and integral to the current global digital technological revolution. This aesthetic has been evolving to adopt the emergence of new materiality or re-materialisation in the practices of digital creation in art and culture, where tangible physical materials assume an equal role to the digital while expanding and repositioning it in an aesthetic that takes on its characteristics that have been termed post-digital. The post-digital perspective assumes the digital as omnipresent, a liquid medium because it flows and submerges everything and everyone; transparent because ubiquitous and (to a large extent) invisible; also empowering because it underlies and is immanent through the very physicality of objects and materials. The conference addressed a contextualising review of digital media art, as digital art and media, concepts and foundations, artistic practices, processes of creation and cultural intervention, firmly centred on the technological artefact and the cycles of action-contemplation, to present a reflection on the emergence of digital re-materialisation practices that summons the tangibility of materials, and in these, enhances the construction of a new digital aesthetic based on hybridity and physicality of the artefacts.N/