Digital art through the looking glass
Subtitle: new strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities
By: Oliver Grau, Janina Hoth and Eveline Wandl-Vogt (eds.).
Publisher: Edition Donau-Universität Krems
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Krems an der Donau
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9783903150515; 9783903150522
Subjects: Digital humanities; Digital preservation
Description: Digital art challenges archiving, collecting and preserving methods within and outside of gallery, library, archive and museum (GLAM) institutions. By its media, art in the digital sphere is processual, contextual, modular and ephemeral, and its creative process is collaborative. From artists, scholars, technicians and conservators?to preserve this contemporary art is a transdisciplinary task. This book brings together leading international experts from digital art theory and preservation, digital humanities, collection management, conservation and media art histories. In a transdisciplinary approach, theoretic and practice-based research from these stakeholders in art, research, education and exhibition are presented to create an overview of present preservation methods and discuss demands and opportunities for the future. Finally, the need for a new appropriate museum and archive infrastructure is shown to preserve the art of our time. --Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.