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TECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENTS IN ART: Conserving Software-Based Artworks

 

As artists continue to push the boundaries of what is possible through digital technology, institutions that acquire software-based artworks take on a daunting task: long-term care of works rooted in short-term technology, and systematic care of works created in idiosyncratic ways.

 

This day-long symposium will bring together artists, conservators, programmers, curators, and technicians. Their presentations will examine the challenges of conserving software-based artworks from a variety of perspectives—by exploring works created from the 1960s to the present, and looking at the ways technology, experiments, and art co-exist. This event’s title, a possibly sacrilegious nod to the seminal late-60s project EXPERIMENTS IN ART AND TECHNOLOGY, recognizes that today’s technology-based artworks are not only part of a rich creative legacy, but also call for creative thinking by those tasked with their care for future generations.

 

Date:

January 17, 2014

 

Time:

10 AM – 5 PM

 

Location:

National Portrait Gallery

Donald W. Reynolds Center

8th and F Streets, NW

Washington, DC

 

Please enter via the doors at the intersection of 8th & G Sts. NW. (All other entrances will be locked until 11:30am).

 

 

Registration: Free

 

Register at: https://sitbma.eventbrite.com/

 

PROGRAM:

 

Alex Cooper: “Acquisition and Conservation of Generative Artworks, National Portrait Gallery”

 

Deena Engel & Mark Hellar: “Technical Narratives and Software-Based Artworks”

 

Matthew Kirschenbaum: “The Afterlives of AGRIPPA: Preserving a Disappearing Digital Text”

 

Lincoln Schatz & James Murray: “It will fail and become obsolete” (artist and studio partnerships in software-based art conservation)

 

Dianne Dietrich & Desiree Alexander: “The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University”

 

Aaron Straup, Senior Engineer, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum: “Planetary: collecting and preserving code as a living object"