Documentation as Art: Expanded Digital Practices

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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 often led by artists, audiences, and museums, the contributions offer new insights into digital art and its history, curation, and preservation, through documentation. Considering documentation as the main method of preserving these art forms, the book analyses how it can address the inherent challenges of capturing live events, visitor experiences, and evolving artworks. Showing how documentation itself can become (part of) an original artwork, the book discusses ways in which these expanded practices can impact the value and experience of the documented event or artwork, giving consideration to how this might affect the traditional authority of the museum as creator of documentation used for future reference, historical relevance, or cultural memory. Documentation as Art demonstrates how the curation and preservation of documentation and the introduction of audience-generated documentation are radically changing exhibition and visiting practices in which documentation is becoming a significant and emergent cultural form in its own right. The book will appeal to researchers and students engaged in the study of museums and curation, art and art history, performance, new media and digital art, library and information science, and conservation.

Author(s): Annet Dekker, Gabriella Giannachi
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022

Language: English
Pages: 214
City: London

Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
PART 1 Production
Introduction
1 The tension between static documentation and dynamic digital art
2 Documentation in an age of photographic hypercirculation
3 Fifty-two weeks: A year of El Paquete Semanal, the Cuban offline Internet, and the two artists who archived it
4 In-game photography
5 Documentation as a creative act
PART 2 Circulation
6 Challenges in the creation, perception and distribution of documentation
7 Leaking lands: Museum documentation without digitisation
8 Digital culture: Heritage, social media and documentation practices
9 Step-and-repeat: The feed as the great flattener
10 One Terabyte of documentation: The circulation of GeoCities
PART 3 Preservation
11 The use of documentation for preservation and exhibition: The cases of SFMOMA, Tate, Guggenheim, MOMA, and LIMA
12 Rendering the moment: Virtual reality as documentation tool for spatial kinetic artwork
13 Collecting social photo: A Nordic project in the search of sustainable methods for preserving social media as cultural heritage
14 In between performance and documentation
15 How a guitar started to self-document its ‘identity’: The future of art documentation
Index