Annet Dekker

Annet Dekker is Associate Professor Cultural Analysis and MA Coordinator Archival and Information Studies at the University of Amsterdam and Visiting Professor and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University. She has previously been Researcher Digital Preservation at Tate, London, core tutor at Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam and Fellow at Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. She also worked as web curator for SKOR (Foundation for Art and Public Domain, 2010-2012), was programme manager at Virtueel Platform (2008-2010) and curator/head of exhibitions, education and artists in residence at the Netherlands Media Art institute (1999-2008). She has published in numerous collections and journals and is the editor of several volumes, among others, Lost and Living [in] Archives. Collectively Shaping New Memories (Valiz, 2017) and Speculative Scenarios, or What Will Happen to Digital Art in the (Near) Future? (Baltan Laboratories/Virtueel Platform, 2013). Her recent monograph, Collecting and Conserving Net Art (Routledge, 2018) is a seminal work in the field of new media conservation. (2024)

Publications

• editor, with Cathy Brickwood, Navigating E-culture, Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform, 2009, 128 pp.
• editor, with Annette Wolfsberger, Walled Garden, Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform, 2009, 119 pp.
• editor, Archive2020 – Sustainable Archiving of Born-Digital Cultural Content, Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform, 2010, 112 pp.
• with Rachel Somers-Miles, Virtueel Platform Research: Archiving the Digital, Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform, 2011, 35 pp.
• with Rachel Somers-Miles, Virtueel Platform Research: Blast Theory, Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform, 2011, 35 pp.
• editor, Martine Neddam, Because I'm an Artist Too..., Amsterdam: SKOR, 2011, 32 pp.
• editor, Virtueel Platform Research, Born-digital kunstwerken in Nederland, Amsterdam: Virtueel Platform, 2012, 95 pp. (Dutch)
• editor, Speculative Scenarios, or What Will Happen to Digital Art in the (Near) Future?, Eindhoven: Baltan Laboratories, 2013, 144 pp.
• editor, Lost and Living (in) Archives: Collectively Shaping New Memories, Amsterdam: Valiz, 2017, 285 pp.
• Collecting and Conserving Net Art: Moving beyond Conventional Methods, London/New York: Routledge, 2018, x+192 pp.
• Enduring Liveness: An Imaginary Retrospective of Tino Sehgal’s Constructed Situations, Amsterdam: Monoskop, 2018, 89 pp. Artist's book.
• editor, Curating Digital Art: From Presenting and Collecting Digital Art to Networked Co-curation, Amsterdam: Valiz, 2021, 256 pp. [1] [2] [3]
• editor, with Gabriella Giannachi, Documentation as Art: Expanded Digital Practices, Routledge, 2023, 216 pp. Publisher. [4] [5]
• editor, with Gabriella Giannachi, MAP - Media / Archive / Performance 14: "Doing Documentation", Mar 2024.

Links

• Website
• Academia.edu
• Mastodon: https://post.lurk.org/@aaaannet, [6]
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• Profile on U Amsterdam
• Wikipedia-NL