What Digital Angst Reveals

Digital Art in Ireland: Reflections & Visuals is a collection of images and essays that captures a snapshot of Irish digital art as it exists in the present moment. The book showcases the work of 12 contemporary artists through a series of visuals and practitioner reflections, featuring Andrew McSweeney, Cailean Finn, Cliona Harmey, Filip Berte, Elaine Hoey, Fiona McDonald, Mark Cullen, Martina Cleary, Nadia Armstrong, Mícheál Ó Catháin, Joseph Feller, Sarah Jayne Booth, and Trevor Furlong.

Artist contributions are coupled with a series of essays from leading scholars, critics and commentators, including “The Unimagined Future” (Gemma Tipton), “Digital Art: An Incomplete Story” (Conor McGarrigle), “Archiving Ireland’s Digital Art” (Catherine Bourne), “Digital Art & Social Inclusion” (Mary Galvin), “What Digital Angst Reveals” (Robin Parmar), and “Digital Art, Ireland, the Future” (Micheál O’Connell).

Digital Art in Ireland: Reflections & Visuals is a collaboration with Sample-Studios, one of Ireland’s largest artist studios and creative workspaces. Generously supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.

Edited by James O’Sullivan and Aoibhie McCarthy.

Blackwater Publishing is an independent publisher based in Cork city, dedicated to creating high-quality, innovative books that address contemporary social, cultural, and political matters in ways that are accessible to the general public. The founding editor is James O’Sullivan, who previously ran New Binary Press.

Publication

The digital copy is freely available as a PDF. A printed version of the book will follow later in the year.