El objetivo del artículo es estudiar las relaciones entre investigación y creación artística y discutir algunas inconsistencias en sus fundamentos, poniendo especial atención en el pensamiento complejo y la tecnología. Para esto, se analizó la literatura, se sintetizaron los resultados de proyectos de investigación interdisciplinarios y se desarrolló un software experimental. La hipótesis es que al artista investigador le conviene aceptar el reto de las ciencias, actualizar sus procesos y abandonar el romanticismo latente en el arte y sus instituciones. Como sugiere la producción artística y tecnológica de la investigación, esto es posible de acuerdo con la teoría de los programas de investigación de Lakatos, mediante la selección de los elementos interdisciplinarios, la recuperación de los valores formales y el aprovechamiento de las dimensiones mediáticas, estéticas y epistemológicas del software.
This article attempts a critical examination of the actual digital art production, posing key questions about its artistic value inside the contemporary esthetic discourse, including the relationships with the art system. Considering the properties of the numeric language, two important topics will be discussed: the dialectic artwork-process and the meaning of digital multimedia. With the support of up-to-date computational creativity theories and the evidences of experimental digital art, the treacherous influence of the romantic aesthetic paradigm and the traditional art system will be tested. As a possible solution, the author suggests rethinking the components of software as meta-medium, such as its information assets, its algorithms, the code textual properties, interactivity and interfaces. In the conclusions it will be stressed that the immateriality of software is paramount to avoid misunderstandings and to open new fields of research. For instance, natural computation, ethnomathematics and ethnocomputing are valuable social and educational contents and meanings that could substantially improve digital art.
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