Index
Contents
Foreword
13 Foreword and Acknowledgments
Bernhard Serexhe
Collecting and Preserving Digital Art
21 Born Digital – But Still in Infancy
Bernhard Serexhe
35 Im/possible Tasks – Remarks on the Concept of Collecting and
Conservation Issues at the House for Electronic Arts Basel
Sabine Himmelsbach
48 Collecting Digital Art: Reflections and Paradoxes – Ten Years’
Experience at the Espace multimédia gantner
Jean-Damien Collin and Valérie Perrin
58 Conservation of Born-digital Art? The Legal Framework of Copyright
Thomas Dreier and Veronika Fischer
Symposium I: The Digital Oblivion. Substance and Ethics
in the Conservation of Computer-based Art
75 On System Change in Cultural Memory and the Conservation
of Digital Art
Bernhard Serexhe
85 Historical Time and Uchronic Time: A Different Way of Conceiving
of Memory and Forgetting
Edmond Couchot
91 An (An-)Archive. The Abolition of the Present and the Archive
of the Future
Siegfried Zielinski
109 Monument – Values – History.
On the Theory and Relevance of Monument Conservation
Ingrid Scheurmann
125 Museum and Amnesia. An Attempt at a Review
Klaus Weschenfelder
137 From New Media to Old Media: Ambiguous Concepts, Complex
Problems, and Open Questions
Hans Dieter Huber
145 Documenting and Conserving Technological Art: The Evolution of
Approaches and Methods
Alain Depocas
154 Formats, Strategies, Interpretations, and Translations
Antoni Muntadas
162 Conserving and Archiving Media Art – The Policy of Discourse
Rosina Gómez-Baeza in collaboration with Brendan Maloney
174 Archiving Strategies at LABORATORIA Art & Science Space
Daria Parkhomenko
183 The Digital Oblivion. Towards a Material History of the Media
Peter Weibel
Symposium II: Digital Art Conservation. Practical Approaches:
Artists, Programmers, Theorists
197 Contemporary Art and Technological Obsolescence
Cécile Dazord
206 Exhibition Closed Owing to YouTube Redesign. Curatorial Practice and
Problems in the Conservation of Digital Art.
Raffael Dörig
217 Keeping the Bits Alive: Authenticity and Longevity for Digital Art
Perla Innocenti
232 Obsolete Equipment: A Research Project on Preserving Equipment in
Multimedia Art Installations
Emanuel Lorrain
243 Machinic Conservation – “Data Carvery” and the Temporality of
Technical Time
Jussi Parikka
256 Emulation as a Conservation Tool for Digital Objects.
The European Union’s KEEP project
Jean-Philippe Humblot
268 Information Freeze: Decay of Technical Information on the Internet
Paul Jansen Klomp
273 Hacking Mondrian
Florian Kaufmann
285 How Deep Is Your Source?
Aymeric Mansoux
299 M=5|é×–0§n $iá†
Igor Štromajer
Case Studies
315 Digital Media Art Demands Commitment!
Arnaud Obermann
324 Herbert W. Franke, ORCHID, TROPIC, WALDWOHN, RAHMEN4,
ABROLL3 (1984–1992)
Chiara Marchini Camia, Arnaud Obermann, and Katrin Willert
340 ORCHID, TROPIC, WALDWOHN, RAHMEN4, ABROLL3
An Interview with Herbert W. Franke
Arnaud Obermann
344 Hervé Graumann, Raoul Pictor cherche son style … (1993–1997)
Chiara Marchini Camia and Arnaud Obermann
361 Raoul Pictor cherche son style …
An Interview with Hervé Graumann
Pascal Bion, Nelly Massera, and Arnaud Obermann
366 JODI, OSS/•••• (1998–2005)
Anne Laforet
379 OSS/••••
An Interview with JODI (Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans)
Anne Laforet and Valérie Perrin
384 Marc Lee, TV-BOT 1.0, TV-BOT 2.0 (2004, 2010)
Doris Gassert
400 TV-BOT.
An Interview with Marc Lee
Fabienne Blanc
404 Nicolas Moulin, Viderparis (1998–2001)
Chiara Marchini Camia and Arnaud Obermann
416 Viderparis.
An Interview with Nicolas Moulin
Nelly Massera and Catherine Mueller
420 Michael Naimark, Karlsruhe Moviemap (1991, 2009)
Chiara Marchini Camia, Esther Neumann, and Arnaud Obermann
438 Karlsruhe Moviemap.
An Interview with Michael Naimark, part I
Rebecca Picht
439 Karlsruhe Moviemap.
An Interview with Michael Naimark, part II
Chiara Marchini Camia and Arnaud Obermann
442 Nam June Paik, Internet Dream (1994)
Chiara Marchini Camia and Arnaud Obermann
456 Samuel Rousseau, Sans titre (papier peint vidéo) (2003)
Chiara Marchini Camia and Arnaud Obermann
469 Sans titre (papier peint vidéo).
An Interview with Samuel Rousseau
Pascal Bion and Nelly Massera
472 Antoine Schmitt, still living H, I, J (2006)
Anne Laforet
484 still living.
An Interview with Antoine Schmitt
Anne Laforet
488 Jeffrey Shaw, The Legible City (1989–1991)
Chiara Marchini Camia, Bernd Lintermann, Arnaud Obermann, and Claudia Röck
513 The Legible City.
An Interview with Jeffrey Shaw, part I
Arnaud Obermann
514 The Legible City.
An Interview with Jeffrey Shaw, part II
Chiara Marchini Camia and Arnaud Obermann
Exhibition: Digital Art Works. The Challenges of Conservation
523 The Exhibition Digital Art Works. The Challenges of Conservation
Chiara Marchini Camia
541 List of Artworks Shown in the Exhibition Digital Art Works.
The Challenges of Conservation
Teaching in the Field of the Preservation of Digital Art
567 Training in Media Conservation
Johannes Gfeller
584 Conservation: A force to employ (or deploy?) in an art school
Francisco Ruiz de Infante and Jérôme Thomas (in collaboration with Anne Laforet and
Pierre Mercier), With an Introduction by Otto Teichert.
Appendix
599 Glossary
603 Authors’ Biographies
617 Bibliography (selection)