Disfunción postdigital en el arte visual digital y la educación artística

Postdigital works of art disrupt utopian narratives of progress and perfection upon which much digital art is based. Postdigital works of art present socially relevant and critically potent opportunities for art educators to analyze these narratives, through dysfunctional forms of making that simultaneously draw from the past, present, and future. In this article, historical examples of visual art that use and address developing technologies will first be discussed, identifying utopian and dystopian themes. Next, the postdigital will be employed to analyze select digital visual works of art that further expand these themes. And finally, these postdigital works of art will be brought into a discussion with theories drawn from contemporary digital visual art education, with the goal that art educators can leverage the critical ways of making that these works of art represent.