From: ZKM | Presse <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 18 Oct 10
Subject: CONF: The Digital Oblivion (Karlsruhe, 4-5 Nov 10)
International symposium
The Digital Oblivion.
Substance and ethics in the conservation of computer-based art
4 and 5 November 2010, 10.00-18.00
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Entrance free, no booking required
Languages: EN, DE, FR
As part of the three-year EU-funded research project digital art
conservation, this international symposium aims to investigate the future of
our digital cultural memory, focusing in particular on the preservation of
computer-based art.
For a couple of decades now, digitalisation has allowed the content of
cultural memory to be more easily processed and circulated. However, the
preservation of digital contents is fundamentally conditioned by the need to
adapt to an ever more rapid sequence of new technical systems. This
functional obsolescence presents a systemic threat to digital cultural
memory. Again and again, previous criteria of cultural memory such as
longevity and authenticity are led ad absurdum.
The practice and theory of the acquisition and preservation of art have seen
a paradigm shift, presenting institutions, curators, conservators and
scholars with a new set of as yet unsolved problems. Whereas traditional
media and tools remained in the hands of artists and curators, new digital
media have reduced the autonomy of these cultural actors.
Parallel to day-to-day museum and exhibition practice, conservation theory
has recently seen a normative debate on the ethics of preservation. This
discussion is comparable to developments elsewhere in the humanities and
natural sciences, as well as in bioethics and environmental ethics and aims
to overcome the current uncertainty surrounding the preservation of digital
media art as part of our cultural heritage.
This set of interconnected themes forms the context for the questions posed
by the first of two symposia within the framework of the project digital art
conservation: What consequences will the ongoing systemic change of cultural
memory have for our consciousness of time and of history, and for our image
of ourselves and the world? Are traditional criteria for conservation - a
work of art's originality, longevity and inherent economic value - at all
applicable to new media art? Should standards of best practice be developed
for the conservation and collection of new media art?
Speakers:
Prof. Dr. Hans Belting
Professor emeritus for the science of art and media theory, Staatliche
Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe
Prof. Dr. Edmond Couchot
Professor emeritus Université de Paris VIII
Alain Depocas
Director of the Centre for Research and Documentation, Daniel Langlois
Foundation, Montréal
Herbert W. Franke
Artist, scientist and writer, Egling
Rosina Gómez-Baeza Tinturé
Director, LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries, Gijon
Prof. Dr. Hans Dieter Huber
Head of degree programme conservation of new media and digital information,
Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart
Antoni Muntadas
Artist, New York
Daria Parkhomenko
Director, LABORATORIA Art & Science Space, Moscow
Dr. Ingrid Scheurmann
Deutsche Stiftung Denkmalschutz, professorship architectural heritage and
applied historical building research, Technische Universität Dresden
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Serexhe
Head curator, ZKM | Media Museum, Karlsruhe
Prof. Dr. h.c. Peter Weibel
CEO, ZKM | Karlsruhe
Dr. Klaus Weschenfelder
President, ICOM Germany
Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinski
Professor for media theory, Universität der Künste, Berlin
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Lorenzstraße 19
76135 Karlsruhe
Tel: +49 (0)721 8100 1400
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Web: www.zkm.de; www.digitalartconservation.org
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