Fri 27 August 2010
15:00–16:30h
Volkshochschule Dortmund, L 103

Moderated by Annet Dekker (nl)

1. 15:00h | Josephine Bosma (nl): Acceptable Loss. Tales of Life and Death in the Digital Realm
2. 15:25h | Anne Laforet (fr): Net Art and Preservation. For Museums and Artists
3. 15:50h | Gabriella Giannachi (gb): Digital Waste or a Valuable Resource? Exploring the Aesthetics, Ethics and Value of Contextual Footprints

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | P51 Archive/Preservation II (PDF, 41.08 KB)

Josephine Bosma (nl)

Acceptable Loss. Tales of Life and Death in the Digital Realm

This paper is based on an essay from my book. It is a case study and comparison of two projects in the digital domain that deal with memory and conservation. One is Mission Eternity by Etoy, and the other is The Long Now, initiated by Steward Brand. The text describes how these two projects relate to the traditional art archive, and what their approach of memory preservation could offer to the conservation of our digital heritage. Both projects represent quite opposite positions, which nevertheless meet at the level of the audience. It is through the audience that memory is preserved.

Josephine Bosma (1962) is a writer and critic. She focusses on new media art, net art specifically, since 1993. Josephine Bosma is working on her first book, to be published in 2010 by the Institute for Network Cultures and the NAi. The title of this book is Nettitudes.

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Anne Laforet (fr)

Net Art and Preservation. For Museums and Artists

Artists have appropriated the Internet as soon as it became public to experiment new artistic, social and technical practices. The museums and cultural institutions that are interested by those works have to reconsider the way they commission, exhibit, collect and preserve artworks. Also, the challenges of long-term preservation change the ways artists think about their artworks. Free software, open formats and copy left licenses allow the artists to make the life duration of their works potentially longer, whatever the way their works is distributed.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Net Art and Preservation. For Museums and Artists (PDF)

Anne Laforet is an researcher and a writer. Her Ph.D. thesis (from the University of Avignon in France in 2009) on the preservation of net art has just been published in print and online. Anne writes on digital art and culture for Arte.tv and Poptronics.fr and makes some sounds with her computer.

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Gabriella Giannachi (gb)

Digital Waste or a Valuable Resource? Exploring the Aesthetics, Ethics and Value of Contextual Footprints

This paper introduces the early stages of the research conducted by the recently awarded Horizon project (RCUK 2009-14), in which an interdisciplinary team comprising staff from Computer Science, Psychology, Sociology, Business, the Arts and Humanities collaborate with over 36 industrial partners to research and develop new ways to use the electronic footprints we leave behind whenever we utilise mobile, internet and other digital technologies.

ISEA2010 Conference Proceedings | Digital Waste or a Valuable Resource? Exploring the Aesthetics, Ethics and Value of Contextual Footprints (PDF)

Gabriella Giannachi is Professor in Performance and New Media, and Director of the Centre for Intermedia at the University of Exeter. Her book publications include Virtual Theatres (2004) and Politics of New Media Theatre (2007).

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