Dear Colleagues,
we’re delighted to let you know that our article 'The afterlives of
network-based artworks' is now online:
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19455224.2017.1320299
The first part analyses the discussion (Methods for studying the
(after)lives of Internet art) initiated here by Karin de Wild between
November 2016 and January 2017. We would like to thank all participants and
Karin for having started the discussion.
Abstract:
Due to the obsolescence of software programmes, hardware and network
infrastructures, many network-based artworks have disappeared. How can we
give them an afterlife? A close look at messages within an international
new media curating mailing list reveals that current theories and practices
relating to digital art preservation are extensively based on a comparison
with performance art and an immaterialist conception of art. This paper
aims to challenge these notions and put forward a suggestion as to what we
might call the materiality of ‘machinic-writing’. It focusses on the
media-archaeological reconstruction of a telematic artwork by Eduardo Kac,
his Videotext Poems, to develop the idea of what we call a ‘second
original’ artwork. This second original is a sometimes incomplete
duplication of a digital work of art which has either disappeared or is
non-functional and achieved by reproducing as closely as possible its
original conditions in terms of hardware, software and user experience. Its
function is aesthetic, educational and epistemological. This paper aims to
show that what is at stake is not so much the work of art’s afterlife,
since it has ‘died’, but rather its new archival life.
Best wishes,
Emmanuel Guez, Morgane Stricot, Lionel Broye, Stéphane Bizet
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