Docu & Demo: Exhibition on Archiving Programmed Media Art

The show addresses the question of how programmed media art can and should be documented, recorded, and discussed in the future. There are many different levels to consider. Social, aesthetic, reception-orientated, and technical components all come into play. If screenshots, video recordings, and short texts are not sufficient as forms of documentation (something that has not been scrutinized enough until to date) what should fill the archives instead or in addition? What are condensed forms of knowledge transmission? What about model building in the humanities?

Inge Hinterwaldner and her interdisciplinary research teams Browser Art and Coded Secrets (COSE) are exhibiting the outcomes of three different experiments. They resulted in three types of “models” that serve heuristic, epistemic, and communicative purposes, in this case primarily in art history. With these epistemic formats they pursue methodologically new territory for documenting and presenting complex programmed and interactive artworks. Each of the exhibits is the fruit of in-depth analytical inquiries into one single artistic piece. They mark steps in the evolution of their humanistic methods repertoire. In addition to these models, the corresponding three online artworks are presented. This juxtaposition should make it possible to critically discuss what transformation the work has undergone through humanities’ analysis. This way the visitor can see and decide for herself whether or how the analytical artifacts help in understanding and grasping some important features.

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