{he}artbreaking to the core. zombie data and the arts of re/de/transcoding

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Digital corpses all abound, zombie data that is still there, but cannot be performed anymore. Change is inevitable, if the artwork should survive. Besides the archivists' efforts to revive the work in its original state, artists have developed their own strategies of embracing the errors and glitches of re/de/transcoding processes

Digital corpses all abound, zombie data that is still there, but cannot be performed anymore. Besides archivists' efforts to revive the work in its original state, artists have developed their own strategies of embracing errors and glitches of re/de/transcoding processes and open up a dialogue of sameness and change, obsolescence and progress, memory and forgetting, positioned as an antithesis to constant technological progress and perfection.

panel with Melissa Barron, Daniela Kuka, Rosa Menkman and Nina Wenhart @ ISEA Istanbul, September 16th 2011

presentation @ rewire Liverpool, September 28th 2011

full txt online && slides

Digital corpses all abound, zombie data that is still there, but cannot be performed anymore. Change is inevitable, if the artwork should survive. Besides the archivists' efforts to revive the work in its original state, artists have developed their own strategies of embracing the errors and glitches of re/de/transcoding processes

Digital corpses all abound, zombie data that is still there, but cannot be performed anymore. Change is inevitable, if the artwork should survive. Besides the archivists' efforts to revive the work in its original state, artists have developed their own strategies of embracing the errors and glitches of re/de/transcoding processes

datenpunkarchive

a digitally punked archive for collecting, deconstructing + reconfiguring media art in theory and practice, pirating, harvesting data and information, undusting it, spreading it, making them seeds of love, remixing and remastering, experimenting, researching and analyzing. seriously, play.
 
started in 2008 

// phase 01 [2008 - 2010] collection of materials
// phase 02 [2008 - 2012] research && writing
// phase 03 [starting 2012] putting the A/V materials online - this unfortunately will be delayed a bit :(

jugendzimmer

For Ars Electronica's 25th anniversary we wanted to make its history accessible in a physical way. Jugendzimmer (the room you live in from your childhood to when you leave home) is one of the proposed concepts (up to now it hasn't been realised).
After 25 years it is time to leave „hotel mum“. Your room remains and is full of memories of your childhood, your teenage years. It's a manifesto composed of posters, matchbox cars, teddy bears and so on. Ars Electronica has objects just like that. Objects, that stand for a certain installation, an animation or performace. And each of those can tell a bit of the long history of the festival, for example Jeffry Shaws bycicle of „The Legible City“, the bed of Paul Sermon's „Telematic Dreaming“, or a cockroach of the Stadtwerkstatt project „Bugrace“. In Jugendzimmer it is up to the visitors to set those memories free. 

concept: 2004

my contribution: idea and concept