art

You are currently browsing articles tagged art.

              In the Digital Art preservation field, we are in the middle of a crisis. This is contents versus   containing. This is a crisis of substance, material substance opposing to conceptual/intentional substance of the artwork. What do we want? That all resources be directed towards to the preservation and storage of the original devices? Or, that each time it is exhibited, the artwork be constantly updated and adapted to new versions of hardware and software ? In other word, should we preserve the material (hardware/software) or the intent?

There is no answer, yet. Or, if there are answers, they are as multiple than artworks.

That’s why we saw the emergence of new hybrid forms of conservation and restoration in museums. Indeed, more and more museums take the initiative, with the consent of the artist, to make new versions of digital work. They provide a unique incarnation of the concept of the work. In many cases, the original work is preserved with strategies such as migration or storage, and the museum makes in parallel a new installation based on the intent of the initial installation.

This hybrid form of preservation reveals the envy in the profession of new dynamic practices, by putting aside the practical called “frozen time” in favor of the “dynamic time” and therefore of dynamic preservation.

The ZKM museum has experimented this new strategy for its last exhibition. [>>]

 

 

 

Tags: , , , ,

11florianopolis Abciber 8 illWhich is the oldest human record?

In his keynote presentation to the National Symposium of Brazilian Cyberculture, Jon Ippolito argues it is lurking in the Amazon rainforest.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Pocos Blue medRichard Rinehart, co-author with Still Water’s Jon Ippolito of the forthcoming MIT book New Media and Social Memory, presents conclusions from the book at the POCOS/HATII symposium on Software Art in Glasgow on 11 October.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: , , , , , , , ,

Isea 2011 LogoDrawing on the forthcoming book New Media and Social Memory co-authored with Richard Rinehart, Jon Ippolito speaks on “Wind, Rain, and Ambient Preservation” at ISEA 2011 in Istanbul. 

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: , , , , , , ,

Ben Fino-Radin of Rhizome has published a plan to keep the organization’s venerable collection of digital art alive in the foreseeable future. The scheme builds on previous research by Richard Rinehart and Still Water’s Forging the Future coalition, of which Rhizome was a founding partner.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: , , , , , , ,

Digital Light Melbourne 2011Digital light is both the subject and the medium for Jon Ippolito’s “The Panopticon Is Leaking.” This teleconference presentation at the University of Melbourne traces the historical roots of light as both a metaphor for knowledge and a means of control, and questions the relevance of this legacy for age of Internet phenomena such as Anonymous and Wikileaks.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: , , , , , , ,

10roma Maxxi Museum 4 illLast December Curator Laura Barrecca and Conservator Alessandra Barbuto invited Jon Ippolito to speak on cultural preservation at Rome’s Museum of the Art of the 21st century (MAXXI), a dramatic building by famed architect Zaha Hadid that opened in June.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: , , , , , , ,

One of the coldest weeks of the year didn’t stop attenders of Aurono Borealis, an outdoor performance at LongGreenHouse this January.  Intermedia MFA students in Joline Blais’s LifeArt class organized a “council of beings” that attracted a variety of faculty, students, and members of the Wabanaki community.
Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: , , , , , , ,

Forsyth osu Synchronous Objects ProjectStill Water Senior Researcher John Bell presents the third-generation Variable Media Questionnaire at the 2010 International Symposium on Electronic Art.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: , , , , , , , , , ,

Jon Ippolito’s presentation “Learning from Mario: Crowdsourcing Preservation” from last March’s DOCAM conference in Montreal has been meshed and is now available online. The essay makes the provocative argument that preservation professionals should be taking cues from the amateur fans who keep vintage games alive.

Read the rest of this entry »

Tags: , , , , , , , , ,

« Older entries