Gustavo Romano - NETescópio: Dez perguntas em aberto sobre a conservação de arte eletrônica /...

NETescopio:

10 open questions about

conservation of electronic art

Gustavo Romano

netescopio.meiac.es

gustavoromano.org

About NETescopio

• online archive and Data Base

• stores mirror copies of net art works

• http://netescopio.meiac.es/

1. NETescopio

The travelling exhibition

Disassemblings, Re/appropriations &

Intrusions

• is presented as a "mobile lab”

• a “device” to visualize processes

• with physical and virtual itineraries

• http://netescopio.meiac.es/DRI

2. NETescopio

About the selection

• archiving vs. curating

• a reflection on the processes that led artists to their development (rather than from an analysis of the formal characteristics of the works)

• 3 strategies that conformed 3 selections: Disassemblings (2008), Re/appropriations (2009) and Intrusions (2011).

3. NETescopio

Disassemblingsworks that, far from making an apology of the new media per se, confront themselves with the concept of technology as entertainment

• Disassembling INTERFACES

• Disassembling STEREOTPYES

• Disassembling NARRATIONS

• Disassembling DAILY LIFE

• Disassembling THE SYSTEM OF ART

4. NETescopio

Re/appropriationsThe artist’s role on the web will no longer be that of a creator, but rather that of a "redirector" of information.

• RE/MIXES

• RE/INTERPRETATIONS

• RE/ENGINEERING

• RE/COLLECTIONS

• RE/CIRCULATIONS

5. NETescopio as case study

Intrusionsartistic interventions in a new public space: Internet

• INTRUDERS IN PLATFORMS 2.0

• INTRUDERS IN THE PUBLIC SPACE

• VIRTUAL INTRUDERS

• INTRUDERS IN YOUR COMPUTER

• INTRUDERS IN THE CORPORATE WORLD

6. NETescopio as case study

10 open questions about conservation of electronic art

1- How to make enduring the

ephemeral?

• How to preserve the time.

• Art as conservation. Artists as curators.

7. Ten open questions about conservation

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ephemeral?

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ephemeral?

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2- Where's the music?

Is in the vinyl or in the jacket?

• Is the “naked” work enough ?

• Nam Jun Paik: the video or the TV?

• Looking at the finger and not what it is pointing

of electronic art

3- How to preserve a drama

• Net art as interventions in public space

• Ask a dramaturge!

of electronic art

4- Save the script or save the

score?

• Programming, source code, design, screens...

• Instructions, scores, work flows…

of electronic art

4- Save the script or save the

score?

• Programming, source code, design, screens...

• Instructions, scores, work flows…

of electronic art

5- Shall we ask the artist?

• DJ Mixes

• Original Free Adaptations

• Covers

of electronic art

5- Shall we ask the artist?

• DJ Mixes

• Original Free Adaptations

• Covers

of electronic art

6- What works to preserve? The

most aggressive or the weakest?

• Technological Determinism

• Technodiversity

• Technological complexity

• Artistic determinism

of electronic art

• Technodiversity

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• Technodiversity

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• Technodiversity

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• Technodiversity

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7- How to explain to future

generations what was the

Internet?

• The disappearance of Internet is inevitable

• Net art requires a pre-existing network

• No discolor, no fade, not degraded: or it is, or it is

not there anymore.

of electronic art

Internet?

not there anymore.

of electronic art

Internet?

not there anymore.

of electronic art

Internet?

not there anymore.

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8- What is the best tactic to ensure

the survival of an art piece?

• The most expensive conservation and isolation

practice?

• The compulsive hyper-reproduction through any

media? Isn't it safer YouTube than a vault?

• The animals that survive, are those that best

defend themselves or those that reproduce the most?

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practice?

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practice?

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practice?

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9- Preserve an individual or an

ecosystem?

• Botanical Garden versus Nature Reserve

• Network of relationships versus isolated works

• Naturalists, hunters and taxidermists

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ecosystem?

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ecosystem?

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ecosystem?

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10- In the future… what kind of buildings should we need for art?

• Prisons?

• Cemeteries?

• Recycling Centers?

• Controlling the reproduction vs. preservation care

• Art robots and behavior problems

of electronic art

• Prisons?

• Cemeteries?

of electronic art

• Prisons?

• Cemeteries?

of electronic art

NETescopio:

10 open questions about

conservation of electronic art

Gustavo Romano

netescopio.meiac.es

gustavoromano.org

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