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NETescopio:
10 open questions about
conservation of electronic art
Gustavo Romano
netescopio.meiac.es
gustavoromano.org
About NETescopio
• online archive and Data Base
• stores mirror copies of net art works
• http://netescopio.meiac.es/
1. NETescopio
The travelling exhibition
Disassemblings, Re/appropriations &
Intrusions
• is presented as a "mobile lab”
• a “device” to visualize processes
• with physical and virtual itineraries
• http://netescopio.meiac.es/DRI
2. NETescopio
About the selection
• archiving vs. curating
• a reflection on the processes that led artists to their development (rather than from an analysis of the formal characteristics of the works)
• 3 strategies that conformed 3 selections: Disassemblings (2008), Re/appropriations (2009) and Intrusions (2011).
3. NETescopio
Disassemblingsworks that, far from making an apology of the new media per se, confront themselves with the concept of technology as entertainment
• Disassembling INTERFACES
• Disassembling STEREOTPYES
• Disassembling NARRATIONS
• Disassembling DAILY LIFE
• Disassembling THE SYSTEM OF ART
• http://netescopio.meiac.es/
4. NETescopio
Re/appropriationsThe artist’s role on the web will no longer be that of a creator, but rather that of a "redirector" of information.
• RE/MIXES
• RE/INTERPRETATIONS
• RE/ENGINEERING
• RE/COLLECTIONS
• RE/CIRCULATIONS
• http://netescopio.meiac.es/
5. NETescopio as case study
Intrusionsartistic interventions in a new public space: Internet
• INTRUDERS IN PLATFORMS 2.0
• INTRUDERS IN THE PUBLIC SPACE
• VIRTUAL INTRUDERS
• INTRUDERS IN YOUR COMPUTER
• INTRUDERS IN THE CORPORATE WORLD
• http://netescopio.meiac.es/
6. NETescopio as case study
10 open questions about conservation of electronic art
1- How to make enduring the
ephemeral?
• How to preserve the time.
• Art as conservation. Artists as curators.
7. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
1- How to make enduring the
ephemeral?
• How to preserve the time.
• Art as conservation. Artists as curators.
7. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
1- How to make enduring the
ephemeral?
• How to preserve the time.
• Art as conservation. Artists as curators.
7. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
2- Where's the music?
Is in the vinyl or in the jacket?
• Is the “naked” work enough ?
• Nam Jun Paik: the video or the TV?
• Looking at the finger and not what it is pointing
to?
8. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
2- Where's the music?
Is in the vinyl or in the jacket?
• Is the “naked” work enough ?
• Nam Jun Paik: the video or the TV?
• Looking at the finger and not what it is pointing
to?
8. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
2- Where's the music?
Is in the vinyl or in the jacket?
• Is the “naked” work enough ?
• Nam Jun Paik: the video or the TV?
• Looking at the finger and not what it is pointing
to?
8. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
2- Where's the music?
Is in the vinyl or in the jacket?
• Is the “naked” work enough ?
• Nam Jun Paik: the video or the TV?
• Looking at the finger and not what it is pointing
to?
8. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
3- How to preserve a drama
play?
• Net art as interventions in public space
• Ask a dramaturge!
9. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
3- How to preserve a drama
play?
• Net art as interventions in public space
• Ask a dramaturge!
9. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
3- How to preserve a drama
play?
• Net art as interventions in public space
• Ask a dramaturge!
9. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
4- Save the script or save the
score?
• Programming, source code, design, screens...
vs.
• Instructions, scores, work flows…
10. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
4- Save the script or save the
score?
• Programming, source code, design, screens...
vs.
• Instructions, scores, work flows…
10. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
5- Shall we ask the artist?
• DJ Mixes
• Original Free Adaptations
• Covers
11. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
5- Shall we ask the artist?
• DJ Mixes
• Original Free Adaptations
• Covers
11. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
6- What works to preserve? The
most aggressive or the weakest?
• Technological Determinism
• Technodiversity
• Technological complexity
• Artistic determinism
12. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
6- What works to preserve? The
most aggressive or the weakest?
• Technological Determinism
• Technodiversity
• Technological complexity
• Artistic determinism
12. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
6- What works to preserve? The
most aggressive or the weakest?
• Technological Determinism
• Technodiversity
• Technological complexity
• Artistic determinism
12. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
6- What works to preserve? The
most aggressive or the weakest?
• Technological Determinism
• Technodiversity
• Technological complexity
• Artistic determinism
12. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
6- What works to preserve? The
most aggressive or the weakest?
• Technological Determinism
• Technodiversity
• Technological complexity
• Artistic determinism
12. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
7- How to explain to future
generations what was the
Internet?
• The disappearance of Internet is inevitable
• Net art requires a pre-existing network
• No discolor, no fade, not degraded: or it is, or it is
not there anymore.
13. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
7- How to explain to future
generations what was the
Internet?
• The disappearance of Internet is inevitable
• Net art requires a pre-existing network
• No discolor, no fade, not degraded: or it is, or it is
not there anymore.
13. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
7- How to explain to future
generations what was the
Internet?
• The disappearance of Internet is inevitable
• Net art requires a pre-existing network
• No discolor, no fade, not degraded: or it is, or it is
not there anymore.
13. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
7- How to explain to future
generations what was the
Internet?
• The disappearance of Internet is inevitable
• Net art requires a pre-existing network
• No discolor, no fade, not degraded: or it is, or it is
not there anymore.
13. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
8- What is the best tactic to ensure
the survival of an art piece?
• The most expensive conservation and isolation
practice?
• The compulsive hyper-reproduction through any
media? Isn't it safer YouTube than a vault?
• The animals that survive, are those that best
defend themselves or those that reproduce the most?
14. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
8- What is the best tactic to ensure
the survival of an art piece?
• The most expensive conservation and isolation
practice?
• The compulsive hyper-reproduction through any
media? Isn't it safer YouTube than a vault?
• The animals that survive, are those that best
defend themselves or those that reproduce the most?
14. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
8- What is the best tactic to ensure
the survival of an art piece?
• The most expensive conservation and isolation
practice?
• The compulsive hyper-reproduction through any
media? Isn't it safer YouTube than a vault?
• The animals that survive, are those that best
defend themselves or those that reproduce the most?
14. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
8- What is the best tactic to ensure
the survival of an art piece?
• The most expensive conservation and isolation
practice?
• The compulsive hyper-reproduction through any
media? Isn't it safer YouTube than a vault?
• The animals that survive, are those that best
defend themselves or those that reproduce the most?
14. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
9- Preserve an individual or an
ecosystem?
• Botanical Garden versus Nature Reserve
• Network of relationships versus isolated works
• Naturalists, hunters and taxidermists
15. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
9- Preserve an individual or an
ecosystem?
• Botanical Garden versus Nature Reserve
• Network of relationships versus isolated works
• Naturalists, hunters and taxidermists
15. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
9- Preserve an individual or an
ecosystem?
• Botanical Garden versus Nature Reserve
• Network of relationships versus isolated works
• Naturalists, hunters and taxidermists
15. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
9- Preserve an individual or an
ecosystem?
• Botanical Garden versus Nature Reserve
• Network of relationships versus isolated works
• Naturalists, hunters and taxidermists
15. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
10- In the future… what kind of buildings should we need for art?
• Prisons?
• Cemeteries?
• Recycling Centers?
• Controlling the reproduction vs. preservation care
• Art robots and behavior problems
16. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
10- In the future… what kind of buildings should we need for art?
• Prisons?
• Cemeteries?
• Recycling Centers?
• Controlling the reproduction vs. preservation care
• Art robots and behavior problems
16. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
10- In the future… what kind of buildings should we need for art?
• Prisons?
• Cemeteries?
• Recycling Centers?
• Controlling the reproduction vs. preservation care
• Art robots and behavior problems
16. Ten open questions about conservation
of electronic art
NETescopio:
10 open questions about
conservation of electronic art
Gustavo Romano
netescopio.meiac.es
gustavoromano.org
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