Forensics of a molten crystal : challenges of archiving and representing contemporary generative art
This text addresses the questions of erasure, deletion and disappearance in new media art from the aspect of preserving, archiving and representing the emblematic line of generative art practices whose poetic qualities make them museologically problematic within the technological and institutional c...
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| description | This text addresses the questions of erasure, deletion and disappearance in new media art from the aspect of preserving, archiving and representing the emblematic line of generative art practices whose poetic qualities make them museologically problematic within the technological and institutional context of the early 21st century. Contemporary generative art often combines procedural (algorithmic) thinking with bricolage methodology and relies on the infrastructures such as the Internet or the AI systems which are becoming ubiquitous and essential but remain largely elusive, exclusive, opaque and misunderstood.
We explore this interrelatedness by discussing some of the exemplar generative art projects which transcend the expressive and aesthetic limits of code-based art but prove to be difficult to preserve and are relatively underrepresented within the art world. With respect to the existing literature in the area, we show that the material fragility, the cognitive values and the educational potentials of generative art practices all stem from their conceptual, methodological and technical sophistication, pointing to the uncertain cultural status of generative art and to some general yet ambivalent issues of cultural memory, re(cognition) and preservation. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1384472020-05-06T05:36:46Z Forensics of a molten crystal : challenges of archiving and representing contemporary generative art Grba, Dejan School of Art, Design and Media Visual arts and music::Media Bricolage Computer Technology This text addresses the questions of erasure, deletion and disappearance in new media art from the aspect of preserving, archiving and representing the emblematic line of generative art practices whose poetic qualities make them museologically problematic within the technological and institutional context of the early 21st century. Contemporary generative art often combines procedural (algorithmic) thinking with bricolage methodology and relies on the infrastructures such as the Internet or the AI systems which are becoming ubiquitous and essential but remain largely elusive, exclusive, opaque and misunderstood. We explore this interrelatedness by discussing some of the exemplar generative art projects which transcend the expressive and aesthetic limits of code-based art but prove to be difficult to preserve and are relatively underrepresented within the art world. With respect to the existing literature in the area, we show that the material fragility, the cognitive values and the educational potentials of generative art practices all stem from their conceptual, methodological and technical sophistication, pointing to the uncertain cultural status of generative art and to some general yet ambivalent issues of cultural memory, re(cognition) and preservation. Published version 2020-05-06T05:36:46Z 2020-05-06T05:36:46Z 2019 Journal Article Grba, D. (2019). Forensics of a molten crystal : challenges of archiving and representing contemporary generative art. ISSUE Annual Art Journal: Erase, (8), 3-15. 2315-4802 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/138447 8 3 15 en ISSUE Annual Art Journal © The Author(s) (ISSUE) (published by LASALLE College of the Arts). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | Visual arts and music::Media Bricolage Computer Technology Grba, Dejan Forensics of a molten crystal : challenges of archiving and representing contemporary generative art |
| title | Forensics of a molten crystal : challenges of archiving and representing contemporary generative art |
| title_full | Forensics of a molten crystal : challenges of archiving and representing contemporary generative art |
| title_fullStr | Forensics of a molten crystal : challenges of archiving and representing contemporary generative art |
| title_full_unstemmed | Forensics of a molten crystal : challenges of archiving and representing contemporary generative art |
| title_short | Forensics of a molten crystal : challenges of archiving and representing contemporary generative art |
| title_sort | forensics of a molten crystal challenges of archiving and representing contemporary generative art |
| topic | Visual arts and music::Media Bricolage Computer Technology |
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