Seit September 2012 ist das Prix Ars Electronica Archiv online und kurz darauf präsentieren wir nun auf einer Konferenz in Sao Paulo nicht nur dessen Umfangreichtum und Möglichkeiten, sondern diskutieren gemeinsam mit Wissenschaftler/innen, Künstler/innen und Historiker/innen den Status Quo und die mögliche Zukunft von Archiven anhand ausgewählter Beispiele.
Type: Symposium
Duration: 01.10. – 05.10.2012
City, Country: Sao Paulo, Brazil
Venue: Auditorium of the University of Sao Paulo, FAU-USP Faculty for Architecture and Urbanism, Brasil
Ars Electronica hat gemeinsam mit der Universität Sao Paulo, im speziellen mit Giselle Beiguelman / Fakultät für Architektur und Urbanismus FAU-USP und Ana Magalhaes / Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst MAC-USP dieses Projekt initiert. Die Aktivitäten der Ars Electronica in Sao Paulo wurden ermöglicht durch die Unterstützung durch das BMEIA und der österreichischen Botschaft in Brasilia und Herrn Mag. Ehrlich einen herzlichen Dank!
Die Key-note von Gerfried Stocker ist hier nachzulesen.
Website zur Veranstaltung inkl. Programm
SPEAKERS
Ana Pato / Digital Archives: The Videobrasil Experience
www.videobrasil.org.br
Videobrasil Collection preserves documents and works produced for the International Festival of Electronic Art. The lack of procedures to organize digital files have intensified research around the art archive.
André Stolarski / Call to Action: Trigésima Bienal de São Paulo
www.bienal.org.br
The lecture will address the multiple strategies used by Fundação Bienal de São Paulo to incorporate the site’s exposure the production of contents performed spontaneously by their audience.
Annet Dekker / Net Art Challenges Preservation
http://aaaan.net
Documenting net art requires a new understanding of conservation theory, focussing on documenting the process and experience of a work: keeping knowledge and memory alive but accepting a loss in history.
Arianne Vanrell Vellosillo: Conservation Strategies and Digital Humanities
www.ricac.net
The conservation of contemporary art proposes new needs to understand artistic proposals. Digital Humanities allows to establish relations, quantify and describe data into multiple variables.
Beth Saad: The Networked Information Memory: The User Power
The consolidation of Web 2.0 reinforces the bidirectional nature of the web, breaking the traditional linear hierarchy of communication. We discuss how results the power relationship in this network scenario.
Christiane Paul: Archiving the Context: Strategies for Preserving the Web-based Art (A Case Study)
If net art is intrinsically contextual—since it often makes context its content through a process of linking—do institutions need to preserve and archive its constantly fluctuating context?
Cicero Silva: Recent Proposals with art and digital technologies
http://www.cicerosilva.com/
Presentation of proposals developed in partnership with Brett Stalbaum: the walkingtools.net system and HiperGps software are production tools in open source of technological art for cell phones.
Daniela Kutschat Hanns: Why do We need Dataviz?
http://danielakutschat.com/
New strategies are needed to understand the complex information structures, in which databases increasingly ubiquitous can be created, manipulated and fed by anyone.
Domenico Quaranta: Saved by the Copy
http://domenicoquaranta.com/
To store data is no longer just an act connected to power, institutions, and authority: it is a social phenomenon. If we look from another point of view, however, we realize that copying and sharing have an extraordinary potential.
Gabriela Previdello: Between Contingency and Permanence
We will discuss the ways of the contemporary flow of information in electronic languages, considering the digital files as a contingency space in information environments in new media arts.
Gerfried Stocker: Ars Electronica Archive: A Profile of Media and Digital Art
archive.aec.at
The Ars Electronica Archive contains a diverse assemblage of artistic works and documentation of projects, exhibitions, and activities over a timeframe of more than 30 years in the wide-ranging international field of electronic and digital art. Gerfried Stocker´s introduction was the key-note of the conference and can be read here.
Gilbertto Prado
www.gilberttoprado.net
The works of art and technology show its operation, become an example of possibility. Only through experience of artists with the technologies we have the possibility of projects in this field.
Guilherme Kujawski: Internationalization of Media Art Archives
There are initiatives to „Internationalization of the Archives of Media Art.“ This paper proposal is based on notions such as memory tertiary diagrammatic operative and „born-digital objects“.
Gustavo Romano: NETescópio: Ten unanswered questions about the preservation of electronic art
http://www.gustavoromano.org/
Departing from Netescopio the archive of net-art works from the MEIAC (Extremadura and Ibero-American Museum of Contemporary Art), as case study, a series of questions will be posted concerning the conservation of electronic art.
José Luis de Vincente: Storing the Self: About the Social Production of Data
www.elastico.net
The production of large-scale data became a result of social activity: thus, we have a new source of material to read the map and social dynamics on a large scale.
Lucas Bambozzi: Oblivion and Convenience
www.lucasbambozzi.net
The presentation presents itself from a case study that is echoing questions around the putative mechanisms that produces certain institutional and technological obsolescence observed in societies today.
Manuela Naveau: Experimenting Archives
www.crowdandart.at
In these times of the internet as a sort of general Überarchiv and of the accompanying illusion that digital information is destined for eternity, media artists are coming up with highly individualistic approaches to the creative process in archiving.
Monika Fleishmann & Wolfgang Strauss: Inter-Facing the Archive: The Media Art Portal netzspannung.org
Netzspannung.org
Netzspannung.org has been online since 2001, and offers multiple accesses to valuable sources of knowledge. Monika Fleischmann and Wolfgang Strauss develop not only new processes of data acquisition, they also scenographically orchestrate the archive for the exhibition space.
Paula Alzugaray: Metawork: The translation of On Subjectivity
The lecture will speak about the reissue for the Brazilian context of the work On Subjectivity: Fifty Photographs from The Best of Life, and its update to the world of digital communication network.
Patricia Canetti: Art as Social Network
This study applies the Social Network Analysis, and how information obtained may lead us to construct a thesaurus documentary to organize and assign meaning to content on the Web.
Pedro Puntoni: Brasiliana USP: A Digital Library for All
www.brasiliana.usp.br
The Project Brasiliana USP implies the permanent interface between the activities of the USP purposes articulated by a vector of strategic national significance, becoming a national reference in the field of digitization of collections.
Renata Motta: São Paulo’s Museums and their documents
www.sisemsp.org.br
In recent decades, the preservationist element that has identified museulogical institutions lost ground to the fronts of communication and research. It is necessary define the responsibilities in relation to these collections, deepening the understanding of the institutional nature of museums today.
Rudolf Frieling: Re-Make, Re-Perform, Re-View – From collecting to producing cultural heritage in media art
“The Museum as Producer”: Following the experience of two projects at ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany, the museum´s collection and exhibition practices will be looked at. In addition the notion of relativity of the electronic image and the performativity of contemporary art will be discussed.