Leveraging ICT Product Innovations by Enhancing Codes of Modern Art

Updated 15.10.2020.

The aim of this project is to raise the interest of a wide-ranging public for contemporary art and to point out the newest creative tendencies in the collective thinking of art. On a larger scale, the project tends to describe the language of art in the nearest future. The task is to create an innovative digital game in the cross-cutting genres of arthouse, educational and serious game. 

As interactive media, digital games have a great potential to integrate people into fields that would otherwise not meet their interest. The game would develop the creative skills of players and teach them the current trends in digital art. The game would also collect the results of players forming a database of artistic means that will lead to scientific conclusions about future art. In the meantime, the game would project the inheritance of art from the age of modernism into the digital world by teaching the player to recognize it (for instance, pixel aesthetics is a successor to cubism and constructivism).

The Design Science Research method will be used in this project in order to cross-cut such remote fields as the general public and the arthouse world, codes of modern art and the taste of the general public. Taking into account that art today is largely interactive, the new game will let its user play around with trends of modern art such as vaporwave, glitch and others, and to create new ones. Thus, the project deals with the problem of knowledge cache and cultural segregation that characterizes modern art: being specific to a great extent, it is difficult to access a large segment of the public.

Keywords: knowledge society, modernism art, culture codes, ICT product development, intellectual capital, knowledge transfer.

PostDoctorate Research Project

Supported by ERDF

Project manager: Assistant professor Ieva Gintere

Scientific consultant: dr.phys. Atis Kapenieks

Project duration: 01.09.2017. - 31.08.2021.

Project number: 1.1.1.2/VIAA/1/16/106

Partner: Interactive Agency Cube

In a collaboration with artists Kristaps Biters and Ieva Vīksne

Scientific papers and conferences

Gintere, I. (2020). The Inclusion of Research and Knowledge Transfer in Art Games. Proceedings of the 12^th International Scientific Conference “New Challenges in Economic and Business Development – 2020: Economic Inequality and Well-Being” (NChEBD), Riga, 2^nd October, 2020. University of Latvia.

Gintere, I. (2020). Art Space: An Experimental Digital Art Game. Proceedings of the 14^th International Scientific Conference Society, Integration, Education (SIE-2020), Rēzekne Academy of Technologies, 22^nd May 2020. Available at: http://journals.rta.lv/index.php/SIE/issue/viewIssue/139/526.

Gintere, I.  (2020). Towards a New Digital Game of Contemporary Aesthetics: Adding Research and Knowledge Transfer. International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology, Vol. 29, No. 10, pp. 8822-8829. Available at: http://sersc.org/journals/index.php/IJAST/article/view/26312/14219.

Gintere, I. (2020). A Perspective on a New Digital Art Game: The Approach of Research and Knowledge Transfer. Proceedings of the 12^th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU-2020). Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication, Prague, May 2^nd, vol. 1, pp. 311-318. Available at: https://www.scitepress.org/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=vmETqFKwZM8=&t=1. 

Gintere, I. (2019). A New Digital Art Game: The Art of the Future. 13^th International Scientific Conference “Society, Integration, Education” (SIE-2019) Proceedings, vol. 4, pp. 346-360. Rēzekne Academy of Technologies. Available at: http://journals.ru.lv/index.php/SIE/article/view/3674/3867. 

Gintere, I., Zagorskis, V., Kapenieks, A. (2018). Concepts of E-learning Accessibility Improvement – Codes of New Media Art and User Behaviour Study. 10th CSEDU International Conference on Computer Supported Education, 1, pp. 426-431. Portugal, Madeira, March 15^th -17^th 2018 (indexed in the Scopus database). Available at: https://www.scitepress.org/PublicationsDetail.aspx?ID=ZviUvMDGMek=&t=1.