For our next quarterly theme, KAPSULA Magazine will look at art practices that generate work from calculative process. Perhaps not commonly associated with art-making, the business of computation nonetheless has a long history with artists. From Leonardo’s Vitruvian man to Roman Opalka’s number paintings, low-tech number-crunching to complex algorithms, the sublime has always belonged to two fields: aesthetics and mathematics.

KAPSULA is seeking papers that teeter on the edge between exactitude and infinity, experimenting with the way that raw, numerical information acts as process and translation in contemporary art practice.

Possible topics might include:

• The evolution of computational art in the “information age”
• Number as an ontological gesture (Alain Badiou)
• Algorithmic art and software art (systems-driven art-making)
• Information, excess, and a digital or net aesthetic
• Locating subjectivity in art that’s made through pre-determined
• calculation
• Mathematics as a tool for defining ‘taste’ in art (remainders of the
• Renaissance)
• The sensory or bodily impacts of data; the body-as-data
• Communicating empathy through numbers, variables, and equations

Submit finished texts or abstracts to submissions[at]kapsula.ca

Before sending, we enourage you review our submission guidelines.