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Hi all, Rick Rinehart recently posted a paper: "A System of Formal Notation for Scoring Works of Digital / Media Art." I invited him to join the conversation and his response is below. Hopefully he will. s -- Steve Dietz Director, ISEA2006 Symposium | ZeroOne San Jose International Festival Curatorial Fellow Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre stevedietz[at]yproductions[dot]com ------ Forwarded Message > From: Richard Rinehart <[log in to unmask]> > Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 09:55:53 -0700 > To: Steve Dietz <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Re: FW: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] taxonomies > > Hi Steve, > > I'm not on this list, but I think now I'll sign > up :) But in a more immediate reply to this > thread (feel free to share), rather than go into > the geeky details of how and which metadata > standards apply to media art in a long email, I'd > probably refer people to our project website > (http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ciao/avant_garde.html) > and specifically to a new paper posted there only > recently called "A System of Formal Notation for > Scoring Works of Digital / Media Art" that does > go into the details of EAD, CDWA, DC, and other > metadata standards in relation to media art. > > And the bottom line is that I agree with Ana; WE > need to establish some metadata standards that > are indeed flexible and allow (encourage?) > variability, because if we don't, museums will > surely by default apply metadata standards that > do indeed try to "freeze" the work. > > Thanks for letting me know about this thread, and > now I'll join the list as soon as I get a moment > to. > Keep in touch, > Rick Rinehart > > > >> this one's for you, yes? >> >> s >> >> -- >> Steve Dietz >> Director, ISEA2006 Symposium | ZeroOne San Jose International Festival >> Curatorial Fellow Walter Phillips Gallery, The Banff Centre >> stevedietz[at]yproductions[dot]com >> >> ------ Forwarded Message >>> From: Ana Boa-Ventura <[log in to unmask]> >>> Reply-To: [log in to unmask] >>> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:48:57 -0500 >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Subject: [NEW-MEDIA-CURATING] taxonomies >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Without wanting to shift the discussion on >>> taxonomies aways from the practical >>> examples Grant is encouraging, I’d like to go back to what someone (Vuk >>> Cosic?) >>> earlier brought up on standards. >>> >>> A lot of the discussion has been based on competitions’ categories. I think >>> they're relevant but they can also be misleading... by being too culturally >>> based (or not enough, for that matter)... by self-serving particular >>> institutional directions, etc. etc. >>> >>> Standards, and metadata are (another) >>> important direction in this discussion. >>> I'd really like if we could spend some time on >>> that topic that was brought up >>> earlier. >>> >>> My thoughts after talking about metadata with >>> other folks is that there are 2 >>> main positions: some think that by discussing >>> metadata for digital art you’re >>> condemning it to be “frozen” in time and that that is contradictory to its >>> nature - net/ digital art should be an exception to this effort of >>> standardization… Others (me included) believe >>> that archiving and preservation >>> are vital. I quote Richard Rinehart "With digital art, … if you don't do >>> something to preserve it within a span of five years, it's not going to >>> survive.[…]"Some works of digital art are >>> already gone. Our time frame is not >>> decades, it's years, at most." >>> >>> BAck to the insight that metadat can bring to >>> taxonomies: specifically in what >>> concerns digital art, how does the Dublin Core, the CDWA and the MARC map >>> to >>> one another? What are the essentials of the >>> standards the Getty team is coming >>> up with? Last but not least, how do these >>> reflect (and may have an impact in) >>> the taxonomies of digital art? What metadata >>> schemas are out there that, while >>> categorizing digital artworks, may equally accommodate legacy systems of >>> analogue works? >>> >>> Best to all, >>> Ana Boa-Ventura >> >> ------ End of Forwarded Message > > > -- > > > Richard Rinehart > --------------- > Director of Digital Media > Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive > www.bampfa.berkeley.edu > --------------- > Executive Committee > Center for New Media > cnm.berkeley.edu > --------------- > University of California, Berkeley > --------------- > 2625 Durant Ave. > Berkeley, CA, 94720-2250 > ph.510.642.5240 > fx.510.642.5269 ------ End of Forwarded Message