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Documentation as Art: Expanded Digital Practices book cover

1st Edition

Documentation as Art Expanded Digital Practices

Edited By Annet Dekker, Gabriella Giannachi Copyright 2023
216 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 30 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Documentation as Art presents documentation as an expanded practice that is radically changing the ways in which to look at, participate in, and generate art. Bringing together expertise from different disciplines, the book provides an in-depth investigation of the development of documentation as a set of production, circulation, and preservation strategies. Illustrating how these are... Read more

Introduction

Annet Dekker and Gabriella Giannachi

Part 1: Production

  1. The Tension Between Static Documentation and Dynamic Digital Art

    2. Annet Dekker

  2. Documentation in an Age of Photographic Hypercirculation

    3. Katrina Sluis

  3. Fifty-Two Weeks: A Year of El Paquete Semanal, the Cuban Offline Internet, and the Two Artists who Archived It

    4. Orit Gat

  4. In-game Photography

    5. Annet Dekker in conversation with Marco de Mutiis

  5. Documentation as a Creative Act

    6. Annet Dekker in conversation with Matt Adams

    Part 2: Circulation

  6. Challenges in the Creation, Perception and Distribution of Documentation　

    7. Sandra Fauconnier

  7. Leaking Lands: Museum Documentation without Digitization

    8. Ofri Cnaani

  8. Digital Culture: Heritage, Social Media and Documentation Practices

    9. Nour A. Munawar

  9. Step-And-Repeat: The Feed as The Great Flattener

    10. Gaia Tedone in conversation with Dena Yago

  10. One Terabyte of Documentation. The Circulation of GeoCities

    11. Annet Dekker and Katrina Sluis in conversation with Olia Lialina

    Part 3: Preservation

  11. The Use of Documentation for Preservation and Exhibition: the Cases of SFMOMA, Tate, Guggenheim, MOMA, and LIMA

    12. Gabriella Giannachi

  12. Rendering the Moment. Virtual Reality as Documentation Tool for Spatial Kinetic Artwork

    13. Yuhsien Chen and Tzuchuan Lin

  13. Collecting Social Photo. A Nordic Project in the Search of Sustainable Methods for Preserving Social Media as Cultural Heritage

    14. Anni Wallenius

  14. In Between Performance and Documentation

    15. Dragan Espenschied

  15. How a Guitar Started to Self-Document its ‘Identity’. The Future of Art Documentation

         Steve Benford and Gabriella Giannachi

Biography

Annet Dekker is a curator and researcher. Currently she is an assistant professor of Archival and Information Studies and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam and a visiting professor and co-director of the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University. Her monograph, Collecting and Conserving Net Art (Routledge 2018), is a seminal work in the field of digital art conservation.

Gabriella Giannachi is a professor of Performance and New Media at the University of Exeter, UK. She has published a number of books including Virtual Theatres (2004); The Politics of New Media Theatre (2007); Archaeologies of Presence, co-edited with Michael Shanks and Nick Kaye (2012); Histories of Performance Documentation, co-edited with Jonah Westerman (2017); and Technologies of the Self-Portrait (2022).

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