Depocas, Ippolito, Jones (eds.): Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach (2003) [English/French]

“Since its founding, the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology has considered the preservation of electronic and digital artworks a pressing matter. But it took some years before we received any project demonstrating a truly innovative approach to this issue.

When the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum submitted the Variable Media Network project based on the paradigm proposed by Jon Ippolito, the museum’s Associate Curator of Media Arts, we recognized the project’s potential as a model for approaching the issue of preserving nontraditional media artworks. The project was particularly valuable because it enabled research that was greatly needed in the field of art preservation.

To the Guggenheim’s original proposal, we added a component: an actual emulation test case to preserve a digital work. We felt that while there have been many theories and discussions on preserving digital and dynamic artworks, there was a need for practical, emulation experiments from which much knowledge could be gained.

We are proud to be forging this research partnership with the Guggenheim Museum and to be enriching and helping disseminate our knowledge. This publication, accompanied by a Web site and an online database, is integral to our goal of sharing information and directly involving the communities and institutions concerned with preservation.” (Jean Gagnon, Preface)

Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach / L’approche des médias variables : la permanence par le changement
Edited by Alain Depocas, Jon Ippolito, and Caitlin Jones
Preface by Jean Gagnon
Published by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, in New York, and the Daniel Langlois Foundation, in Montreal, 2003
ISBN: 0-9684693-2-9
138 pages

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Dieter Daniels, Gunther Reisinger (eds.): Net Pioneers 1.0: Contextualizing Early Net-Based Art (2010)

“Net Pioneers 1.0 discusses media art history with a new, interdisciplinary look at the historical, social, and economic dynamics of our contemporary, networked society.

The hype around Net-based art began in the early 1990s, before the Internet had become a commodity. It developed in skeptical parallel to the rise and decline of the new economy. But why does this chapter of art history appear to end so suddenly? Is it that the idea of Net-based art involving itself in a revolutionary spirit in a networked society failed? One might equally well argue that it was far too successful simply to become another media-art genre. Looking today at the social, aesthetic, and conceptual approaches of the early 1990s presented in this book, it is clear that most of them have in fact come true, if in ways other than intended.

The contributions cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from art-scholarly methodological debate (Bentkowska-Kafel, Kuni), source-critical analysis (Reisinger), archiving, exhibition, and analytical practice (Ernst, London, Paul, Sakrowski) to media-philosophical aspects (Ries) and technical and artistic innovations (Daniels).”

Contributions by Anna Bentkofska-Kafel, Dieter Daniels, Wolfgang Ernst, Verena Kuni, Barbara London, Christiane Paul, Gunther Reisinger, Marc Ries, Robert Sakrowski and Julian Stallabrass.

Publisher Sternberg Press, Berlin and New York, February 2010
Co-published with the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research
ISBN 978-1-933128-71-9
240 pages

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Medialab Prado: Inclusiva-net, 1-3 (2007-2009) [English/Spanish]

Inclusiva-net #1: New Art Dynamics in Web 2 Mode

Seminars and keynotes presented at the First Inclusiva-net Meeting: [New Art Dynamics in Web 2 Mode] · July 2007.

Publisher: Área de las Artes. Dirección General de Promoción y Proyectos Culturales.
Madrid, 2007
ISSN 2171-8091

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Inclusiva-net #2: Digital Networks and Physical Space

From March 3 through 14, 2008, the 2nd Inclusiva-net Meeting, curated by Juan Martín Prada, took place at Medialab-Prado. In addition to a two week production workshop, lectures were held by invited researchers and artists and selected papers were presented.

Publisher: Área de Las Artes. Dirección General de Promoción y Proyectos Culturales. Madrid. 2009
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ISSN 2171-8091

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Inclusiva-net #3: net.art (second epoch). The evolution of artistic creation in the net-system

Publication of texts and videos of the lectures and keynotes presented during the 3rd Inclusiva-net meeting: NET.ART (SECOND EPOCH). The Evolution of Artistic Creation in the Net-system Seminar at the Centro Cultural de España Buenos Aires from March 2 through 6, 2009. Moderator: Juan Martín Prada.

This event was aimed to develop an analysis of the current situation of artistic practices on the Web from various theoretical and critical perspectives.

Throughout the meeting, many topics will be addressed including questions such as: Can we speak of a second epoch in net.art? What do the new art forms based on on/off-line hybridization contribute? What critical reflection do new manifestations of digital creations in networks offer us? What are the new relations between creation and dissention?

Net.art, which arose in the mid-1990s as a form of creative exploration and critical experimentation of the Internet, is one of the contemporary fields of artistic creation that has contributed most to a new outlook on forms of artistic production and experience.

Publisher: Medialab Prado. Área de Las Artes. Dirección General de Promoción y Proyectos Culturales. Madrid. 2009
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