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digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 017: Daniel Heiss. It's Not About the Money. Blockchain from the Museum PerspectiveIn this talk Daniel Heiss will focuses on Genesis of ZKM Crypto Collection, On-chain / Off-chain NFTs, Management of NFTs in the museum context, Concepts for ownership and rights in the context of NFTs, Pitfalls for museums in dealing with Crypto.
Daniel Heiss
Daniel Heiss studied computer science and has been working for the Center of Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe for more than ten years. ZKM was one of the first museums with an explicit focus on media art. He works there on the preservation of the collection works, the implementation of new...
2022-07-0139 min
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 016: Assoc. Prof. Selçuk Artut. The Art Scene Increasingly Turning into a Technology and Asset-Driven WorldThere has always been a bilateral interplay between Art and Technology at various levels of participation throughout history. At every step, technology has created new mediums, tools, and themes to expand artists' creative expression. However, it is frequently observed that in today's works of art that employ new technology, excessive praise for technical components given during the creation or presentation of the artwork may risk overshadowing the artwork's discursive essence. In addition, absolute reliance on technological means brings with it the potential danger to the preservation of such works of art in the face of technological loss. This session...
2022-07-0131 min
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 015: Prof. Jon Ippolito. Crypto-Preservation and the Ghost of Andy WarholThis talk focuses less on blockchain’s general promise as a preservation medium and more on the particular case of the digital Warhols, which both in form and spirit would seem a perfect application of NFTs to preserve historically important works of digital art. Which promises of the crypto-dream of permanent access to digital heritage ring true for this case study, and which are overblown?
Jon Ippolito
Jon Ippolito is an artist, writer and curator born in Berkeley, California in 1962 who turned to making art after failing as an astrophysicist. After applying for wh...
2022-07-0147 min
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 014: Prof. Erkay Savaş. Re-engineering of Internet for Security, Privacy and Trust with BlockchainBlockchain is a foundational as well as disruptive technology that can be instrumental for meeting challenges posed by rapidly changing economic and social systems. To take full advantage of this impressive technology, we must first understand what it is, how it works, what it really offers, and how we can use it to transform our current digital infrastructure, which has apparent fundamental shortcomings. In this talk, we will try to answer these and other germain questions by offering a non-specialist exposition of its theoretical substructure. Then, we can briefly introduce a specific application of the blockchain technology that can...
2022-07-0133 min
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 013: Prof. Peter Weibel. The Non-Local MuseumIn future the museum will not only be a collection of things (eine Sammlung). It will also be a Versammlung, that means an assembly of people, discussing matters of the world as represented by the collection. The museum will become a platform for local visitors, but also for non-local visitors. This digital extension will turn the museum into a para-universitary institution.
2022-04-2540 min
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 012: Michael Connor. Curating Online ExhibitionsIn this talk, Michael Connor will argue for the online exhibition as a cultural practice that is distinct from but connected to traditional gallery exhibitions. He will draw on Rhizome’s work and other examples to discuss the concepts of variability, performance, objecthood, and spatial practice in online exhibitions.
2022-04-2245 min
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 011: Prof. Christiane Paul. Net Art Generations: From 1.0. to 2.0 and Post-InternetIn its almost thirty-year long history, Internet art evolved along with the technological platforms and communities supporting it. The playful anarchy and poetic exploration of early browser-based art expanded into the corporate platforms of social media and the so-called post-Internet practices of the past decade that entailed a return to materiality. The talk will outline the aesthetic and conceptual evolution of net-based practices from Web 1.0 to the current wave of crypto art, chronicling their engagement with identity, data frameworks, and collaborative production. Also discussed will be the curatorial models for presenting Web-based art over the decades, as well as...
2022-04-121h 02
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 010: Lozana Rossenova. Modeling net art provenance: a new approach to the interface and infrastructure of Rhizome's ArtBase archiveThis talk will focus on my collaborative doctoral research project with digital arts organisation Rhizome. The project aims to develop a theoretical and practical approach towards the redesign of the interface of Rhizome’s historic archive of net art – the ArtBase. The performative and processual characteristics of net art works do not easily conform to the modes of classification and provenance description traditionally employed in cultural heritage collection management systems. How can the archive’s design and infrastructure address such challenges? In this talk, I will discuss the value of taking a multidisciplinary approach – looking to archival theory, digital preserva...
2022-04-1144 min
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 009: PAMAL Group. Telematic Media-archaeological Performance: the Afterlife of the Minitel networkThis presentation is based on the article „The Afterlives of network based artworks“ and the performance is presenting the reconstruction of the Minitel network, almost 10 years after it disappeared in France. Minitel was, at the time, kind of an alternative to the Internet in France.PAMAL_Group is a European artistic group, founded as follow-up to PAMAL (Preservation & Art - Media Archaeology Lab) in 2013, composed of artists, media theorists, conservator-restorers and engineers. PAMAL_Group is currently made up of Stéphane Bizet, Lionel Broye, Armandine Chasle, Emmanuel Guez and Morgane Stricot.We are developing a media-archaeological artistic practice based on a...
2022-04-1134 min
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 008: Ben Fino-Radin. Leveraging Cloud-Based GPU Virtualization for Software Based Works of ArtThe exhibition and display of software based works of art that have demanding graphics requirements can be challenging. Dedicated hardware can be expensive, requires maintenance, and limits accessibility of the work to in-person experiences only. Ben will present developments in the field of GPU powered cloud virtualization platforms that are redefining the limits of how one can exhibit and provide access to software-based art, and share how Small Data Industries is leveraging these technologies to make art more accessible.
2022-04-1123 min
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 007: Selçuk Artut. Bilgi Çağı Teknolojik Sanat Eserlerinin Geleceğe TaşınmasıSelçuk Artut, konuşmasında, teknoloji içeren eserler üreten bir sanatçı olarak karşılaştığı durumlardan ve üretim pratiklerinden yola çıkarak, sanat eserlerinin geleceğe taşınması konusunu ele alıyor. Teknolojiyle bağlantılı tüm alanlarda olduğu gibi, günümüz sanatında da sanat eserlerini geleceğe taşıma yöntemlerinin doğurduğu sorulara konferansta cevap arayan Artut; sürekli gelişmekte olan teknoloji karşısında, üretilen güncel eserlerin tutarlı bir biçimde korunabilmelerine dair birtakım prensiplerin belirlenebilmesi için oldukça kapsamlı ve disiplinler arası bir çalışmanın yapılması gerekliliğini de irdeliyor.
2022-04-0140 min
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 006: Vasıf Kortun. Anıt ve Belge, Eser ve Arşiv Arasında Sanatçı Pratiği: Eşit Olmayan Koşullar, Küresel BeklentilerVasıf Kortun, konuşmasında “Yeni” Teknoloji var mıdır, varsa ne anlama gelir? Fiziki ve dijital sürümlerin sürekli yenilendiği bir zamanda sanatçı, küratör ve kurumun, belge ve esere karşı dürüstlüğü nasıl gerçekleşir? Etik kıstaslar nedir? Soru, zamanımızda sanatçı eser ve arşivlerinin kaybolması değil, aksine kaybol(a)maması olabilir mi? Ekonomik koşulların yetersiz, kurumsallaşma ve teknolojik imkanların yaygın olmadığı ortamlarda koruma sorunlarını nasıl değerlendirebiliriz? sorularına değinmeye çalışacak.
2022-03-2858 min
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 005: ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. Media Archaeological Reconstruction of Media and Digital Artworks: Practical Case-StudiesDue to obsolescence of software and hardware, digital and media artworks have, compared to other artworks, a short lifespan. In recent years, artworks have begun to disappear, letting their precious archives and related knowledge dying with them.
Media archaeological reconstruction or „second original“ is defined by PAMAL (Preservation and Art – Media Archaeological Lab) as a duplication or reconstruction of an artwork that has disappeared or is considered "obsolete" with its original writing and reading machine (i.e. the hardware and software). This reconstruction does not exclude either emulation or simulation, which can be used to recompose a partic...
2022-03-281h 34
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 004: Prof. Siegfried Zielinski. PRO-SPECTIVE ARCHAEOLOGIES. Travelling through DEEP TIME OF THE MEDIA into to Possible Futures‘The seemingly paradoxical abstract mixtum compositum that is prospective archaeology consists of a practice that operates in accordance with two opposing arrows of time. One of these arrows is oriented vertically into the deep time of cultures that still remains to be explored and that, for me, is forever remade by virtue of interdependencies in the relationships among the arts, sciences and technologies. The other arrow points from the now into an enduringly and unremittingly opaque future. Where the utopian potential of media-archaeological activity and its associated artistic practices resides is in the possibility of bringing these two arrows of...
2022-03-281h 15
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 003: Dragan Espenschied. From Collection To RepertoireThe preservation of net art requires an approach quite different from traditional objects, time based media, or conceptual art. With works located in between fine art and performance art, it is sometimes difficult to define what their boundaries are, in what technological and cultural context they need to exist, and how they can be historicized. Preservation Director Dragan Espenschied of Rhizome, a born-digital arts non-profit founded in 1996 on the internet, will introduce strategies and productive abstractions to handle the institution's ever-growing holdings of 2000+ net art pieces.
2022-02-0451 min
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 002: Assoc. Prof. Cemal Yılmaz. Software Aspect of Preserving Digital ArtIn this talk, I will take a look at the problem of preserving software-based digital art from the perspective of software engineering and software-related technologies. I will start off with a quick introduction of the software and hardware stacks available on today’s general-purpose computing platforms and briefly discuss the sources of the technical issues regarding the preservation of software-related art. Next, I will demonstrate that some of the issues faced in this domain are the same with (or similar to) the ones we, as software engineers, face in our own projects, thus the same and similar solution approaches, wh...
2022-01-2156 min
digitalSSM PodcastEpisode 001: Patricia Falcao. Preservation of Software-based ArtArtworks with digital components started to make their way into the Tate Collection in the mid-90s. These were initially audio or video components, but since then digital components are part of almost all the time-based media artworks in our Art Collection. We categorise artworks that use the media of film, video, audio, software and performance as time-based media and Tate has had a section specialised in the conservation of these artworks since 1998. Over this period, Time-based Media Conservation has approached the preservation of these works as opportunities for research in the preservation of the different media. We have...
2022-01-1344 min