the online-life of media art-archives

THE ONLINE-LIFE OF MEDIA ART-ARCHIVES

Florian Wiencek, M.A., Jacobs University Bremen Research Center „Visual Communication and Expertise“ (VisComX) 14.11.2010

Presentation at the Reimagining the Archive. UCLA, 12-14.11.2010 Panel 5.3 – Artists and Archives

Outline

14.11.2010 Wiencek – The Online Life of Media Art-Archives @ Reimagining the Archive

¨  What is new in „Digital Archives“?

¨  How „natively digital“ are current archives and platforms for media art?

¨  What is the discourse space around media art formed by these platforms and archives?

Digital Archives (1)


¨  dynamic content à user-generated through queries ¤ „shift from read-only to a generative, participative

form of archival reading“ (Ernst 2010, p. 81)



¨  task of the archive is „to meaningfully link up different information nodes“ (Ernst 2010, p. 84) à relation (e.g. through hyperlinks) ¤ „The Internet is a network where a different context is

always only one click away, and everyone is engaged in a continuous process of (re)contextualizing. Linking to and commenting on other websites creates information filters, portals, and new contexts.“ (Paul 2010, p. 103)



¨  Distinction of 2 generations of online collections (Cameron 2003) 1.  first generation: thematic solutions / narrative à „digital objects are

presented in a hierarchical storyline with theme and subtheme“ (Cameron 2003, p. 3).

n  use of classical museum devices (object labels, graphic images , didactic texts) in fixed order

n  not many hyperlinks or interactive possibilities n  particular narratives are privileged

2.  second generation: offer alternative pathways through collection by the offer of greater contextual possibilities (e.g. alternative navigation systems (multimedia-, text- or image- based) like semantic maps)

n  allows users to create new pathways n  non-hierarchical system ruled by relationships

à next generation?

¨  Categorization of the material

4 Dimensions of Meaning Generation in Digital Visual Archives

main categories from virtualart.at

main categories from V2_archive

¨  Categorization of the material ¨  Interactive processes of digital archives

¨  Visualization and contextualization of archive material

¨  Retrieval


main categories from V2_archive



¨  Retrieval


Semantic Map, netzspannung.org



¨  Retrieval


Advanced Search at GAMA (gama-gateway.eu)

Sample

Institutional Archives ¨  Ars Electronica Archiv ¨  V2_archive ¨  virtualart.at ¨  Daniel Langlois Foundation ¨  Medien Kunst Netz à Educational Platform

¨  netzspannung.org à

¨  rhizome.org à Collaborative Online Platform

¨  GAMA à Subject Gateway

Archives in Scientific Contexts

Educational Platform / Collaborative Online Platform


How digital are current Online-Archives and -Platforms?


¨  Text & images are still the most prevalent mediation-modalities, but also video, audio and other means such as hyperlinks, automated search (dynamic content) and interactive applications / visualizations are used.

¨  natively digital objects (Rogers, 2009)

¤  „objects, content, devices and environments that are ‚born‘ in the new medium, as opposed to those that have ‚migrated’ to it“ (Rogers, 2009, p. 1)

à What kind of digital objects does one find in online-archives and –platforms for media art?

Digital Objects in Online-Archives and -Platforms

¨  hyperlinks ¨  hyperlink-lists ¨  static pages ¨  dynamic pages

¤  server generated ¤  based on user-input

¨  interactive data visualization / interactive applications

¨  database-search ¨  search results ¨  related items ¨  media gallery ¨  embedded media ¨  embedded archive content ¨  rollover ¨  information-layering

¤  pop-up windows ¤  html-layer

¨  filter-mechanisms ¨  different views on data ¨  personalized features ¨  community features ¨  comment space ¨  RSS-feeds ¨  share-features ¨  folksonomy / tags ¨  widgets ¨  Wiki ¨  subscribable calendar ¨  multimedia objects (video, flash;

hypermedia lecture) ¨  clickable keywords / categories ¨  mailing lists ¨  quotation generator ¨  net art ¨  accessability tools


Digital Objects // Hyperlinks


medienkunstnetz.de: navigation within a site; navigation in a page; position indicator within the site; link to internal sources

medienkunstnetz.de: trigger searches via hyperlinks

rhizome.org: share-button

Digital Objects // Dynamic Page (Server Generated)


V2_archive: aggregated page virtualart.at: random content


Digital Objects // Dynamic Page (Based on User Input)

GAMA: search results netzspannung.org: filter-mechanisms

Digital Objects // Database Search


GAMA: Advanced Search

Ars Electronica Archive: Simple Search

rhizome: Embedded Google-Search

GAMA: Film Strip & Related Search

Digital Objects // Interactive Data Visualization / Interactive Applications


netzspannung.org: exploratory search interface Semantic Map & Timeline netzspannung.org

Digital Objects // Personalized Features

¨  expert communities (netzspannung)

¨  Ariadne’s Thread (netzspannung)

¨  search patterns (netzspannung)

¨  member-curated exhibitions (rhizome)

¨  netzkollektor (netzspannung)

¨  profile (netzspannung, rhizome)

¨  discussion board (with RSS feed) (rhizome)

personalized features community features


Digital Objects // Wiki


GAMA: Wiki – Guided Tour

GAMA: embedded archive-object

Digital Objects // Tags, Folksonomy


rhizome.org: artist‘s terms VokabWiki

Interlink Analysis


Interlink Analysis of the sample using the tool „Issue Crawler“ (www.issuecrawler.net) by the Govcom.org Foundation, Amsterdam (NL).

http://www.netzspannung.org/about/partnerships/

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/http://www.netzspannung.org/about/partnerships/?lang=en

http://www.netzspannung.org/about/partnerships/en

http://www.netzspannung.org/about/workshops/learning/

http://www.netzspannung.org/learning/links/

http://www.netzspannung.org/learning/links/?lang=en

http://www.netzspannung.org/learning/links/index.xsp?lang=en

http://www.v2.nl/

http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/node/notion/default.xslt/nodenr-134057

http://www.fondation-langlois.org/

http://framework.v2.nl/archive/index/organisation/default.xslt/class-funding_body?offset=1&sortby=name

http://framework.v2.nl/archive/index/organisation/default.xslt/class-organisation?offset=61&maxitems=10&sortby=name

http://framework.v2.nl/archive/index/person/default.xslt/class-person?offset=231&maxitems=10&sortby=name

http://rhizome.org/editorial/tag.php?tag=electronicart

http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/tag.php?tag=sound

http://rhizome.org/editorial/tag.php?tag=glitch

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/magnet-tv/http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/news

http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/tag.php?tag=1970s

http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/tag.php?tag=code

http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/tag.php?tag=effects

http://www.gama-gateway.eu/index.php?id=21

http://90.146.8.18/de/archives/prix_archive/prix_projekt.asp?iProjectID=13373

http://www.gama-gateway.eu/index.php?id=21&color=1

http://www.gama-gateway.eu/index.php?id=21&size=1

http://www.rhizome.org/http://framework.v2.nl/archive/index/organisation/default.xslt/class-network?offset=1&sortby=name




http://90.146.8.18/de/archives/festival_archive/festival_catalogs/festival_artikel.asp?iProjectID=9382

http://rhizome.org/editorial/tag.php?tag=1960s

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/public-supply-i/

http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/tag.php?tag=radio

http://www.rhizome.org/editorial/tag.php?tag=transmission


http://90.146.8.18/de/festival2008/program/project.asp?iProjectID=14399


http://rhizome.org/artbase/

http://framework.v2.nl/archive/index/person/default.xslt/class-person?offset=1081&maxitems=10&sortby=name

http://www.fondation-langlois.org/e/collection/vasulka/archives/http://rhizome.org/editorial/fp/month.php?month=200110


http://netzspannung.org/http://rhizome.org/editorial/fp/month.php?month=200409


http://rhizome.org/RSG/

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/random-access/images/5/

http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=1949

http://rhizome.org/editorial/tag.php?tag=dance

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/beckett/biography/

http://rhizome.org/editorial/tag.php?tag=process


http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/works/tv-hijack/


http://rhizome.org/editorial/tag.php?tag=research

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/artist/mark/biography/

http://www.netzspannung.org/tele-lectures/hypermedia-lectures/

http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themen/


http://rhizome.org/art/

Interlink Analysis Graph showing the page-level


hyperlinks are used

•  content-related •  indications of institutional relations •  reference to context •  link as gateway

Actors according to Google.de

1. European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück) 2. medienkunstnetz ...

4. IMAI ...

9. ZKM ...

11. mediaartnet.org ... 37. Werkleitz Gesellschaft

... 39. Edith-Russ-Haus

... 41. GAMA

... 79. ISEA 2010

¨  Archives

¨  Cultural Institutions

¨  Scientific Portals

¨  Educational Platforms

¨  Universities / Research Institutions

¨  Publishing House

¨  Funding Agencies

¨  Artists

¨  Events (Festivals, Conferences)

¨  Blogs

¨  Art Platforms

¨  Broadcaster

¨  Companies (Design, Advertising, Web, Bookstore...)

¨  Company Directories

¨  PR-Portal

¨  Cities


Query for „media art“, 01.11.2010

Actortypes:

Actors according to Google.de (2)

1. de.wikipedia.org

2. medienkunstnetz

...

9. Edith Russ Haus

...

15. Werkleitz Gesellschaft

...

35. ISEA 2010

...

73. European Media Art Festival


Query for „Medienkunst“, 01.11.2010

¨  Archives

¨  Cultural Institutions

¨  Educational Platforms

¨  Universities / Research Institutions

¨  Publishing House (incl. Book on Demand)

¨  Funding Agencies

¨  NGOs

¨  Individuals (Artists, Ressearchers, Curators)

¨  Art Projects

¨  Events (Festivals, Conferences)

¨  (Research) Blogs

¨  Art Platforms / Art Magazines

¨  Newspapers / Magazines (Print & Online)

¨  Broadcaster

¨  Companies (Design, Advertising, Web, Bookstore...)

¨  Company Directories

¨  Social Media Platforms

¨  Shopping Platforms

¨  Cities / City Marketing / Counties

Actortypes:

Inlink Analysis

¨  other archives / platforms ¨  festivals ¨  cultural institutions ¨  blogs ¨  research blogs ¨  private pages of idividuals

(artists, researchers, curators) ¨  conferences ¨  universities, colleges & other

research institutions

¨  libraries ¨  research networks, platforms ¨  art portals & magazines ¨  information services on art ¨  research projects ¨  companies (partly involved in

these projects) ¨  administration ¨  web services ¨  social bookmarking ¨  broadcaster


Classification of hosts linking to archive‘s homepages:

Conclusions


¨  All sites use natively digital objects, but some are „more digital“in their approach than others.

¨  Archives should try to bind the discourse to the archive material. ¤  tools for collaborative meaning making are needed

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Thank you for your attention!


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References (4):

Sample: Ars Electronica Archive: http://90.146.8.18/de/archives/index.asp; http://90.146.8.18/de/archives/prix_archive/prix_projekt.asp?iProjectID=2475# Daniel Langlois Foundation: http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/; http://www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=2186 GAMA: http://www.gama-gateway.eu; http://www.gama-gateway.eu/index.php?id=search&workdetail=gama:ars-electronica:main:Work:966 Medien Kunst Netz: http://www.medienkunstnetz.de; http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/werke/very-nervous-system/ netzspannung.org: http://www.netzspannung.org; http://netzspannung.org/cat/servlet/CatServlet?cmd=document&subCommand=show&forward=%2fnetzkollektor%2foutput%2fproject.xml&entryId=147823&section=base&lang=de rhizome.org: http://www.rhizome.org Virtualart: http://www.virtualart.at; http://www.virtualart.at/database/general/work/very-nervous-system.html V2_archive: http://www.v2.nl/archive; http://framework.v2.nl/archive/archive/node/work/default.xslt/nodenr-162937

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