Post #1319311
2023-05-06 07:34 UTC
My essay "In between performance and documentation" was published on Rhizome:
https://rhizome.org/editorial/2023/may/05/in-between-performance-and-documentation/
It's about digital art conservation where documentation resources created by digitally recording observable behavior in a structured format can be integrated with fully performing parts of an artwork.
Originally this was written for the rather cool book "Documentation as Art" edited by @aaaannet and Gabriella Giannachi, featuring authors such as @katrina, @spinster, @GIFmodel, and many more!
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@despens@digipres.club 2023-05-06 07:43
Another summary that I think is interesting in hindsight: The practice that documentation of an artwork and an instantiation of an artwork are separate things, and documentation can never be the "real" thing, 1) is rooted in the museum logic of "artwork is taken out of storage for exhibition" that doesn't work well with most digital art and 2)—perhaps paradoxically—prevents useful historicization of digital art.