Associate Professor of Media, Data & Society
On April 20, 2009 Annette Wolfsberger from Lab for Culture interviewed me via Skype chat about cultural blogging. We talked about blogging cultural events and conferences and how to professionalise this field. Steps to professionalising blogging within culture: Getting started with blogging; Building a profile; Live blog conferences in exchange for a ticket; Live blog… Read more Four steps to professionalising blogging within culture
Internet researchers are confronted with an instable object of study, the ephemerality of the object. The question is how to make the medium permanent so we can study it with care? The shape of the archive informs what I can ask the archive. This perspective on archives is placed within Weltevrede’s research into National Webs.… Read more Archive 2020: Esther Weltevrede – Archiving Web Dynamics
What is going on in Media art? We wanted to build a picture of the current development. When we started there was nothing, we had no content. How do we build an archive when nothing is there? We thought about what partners would be important? We started with an e-mail poll in 1997/1998 and asked… Read more Archive 2020: Monika Fleischmann – Netzspannung.org
Olga Goriunova presents Runme.org as a resource, reference point, entry point to a variety of software art practices. What are our plans for archiving? In the past we were considering to let to die. It was never conceived as an archive, it adopted the form of a database and it was a living response to… Read more Archive 2020: Olga Goriunova – Runme.org Reversion
Eric Kluitenberg is Head of the Media department of the Balie and is presenting ongoing research. De Balie is often seen as a center for debate but it is much more than that. It is responsible for innovative work such as the Living Archive which was formally launched last year and deals with different kinds… Read more Archive 2020: Eric Kluitenberg – The Living Archive
The Whitney Artport is an archive of net art which will naturally pose some questions for the future. In the backend of the system all the versions of Flash, CGI scripts and PHP scripts are documented. None of the commissioned projects exhibited online made it into the Whitney collection because the the Whitney either did… Read more Archive 2020: Christiane Paul – Whitney Artport