Panel Discussion

Discussion with Participants of the Block Surplus management

Date and time
27 September — Friday 11:00-12:00
Location
Room: Mała Czarna
Panel Discussion

Discussion with Participants of the Block Surplus management

Data is the fundamental building block of digital culture, yet from a modern perspective we should say that it is – and always was – the substance of every culture. There is no doubt that the Internet is currently the fastest, most abundant source of immense cultural resources from all over the world and all ages past. Those resources are growing by the day, and we already feel a need to simplify the ways in which we access and work with them. At the same time, digitally created works such as video games, applications, and web pages are much more vulnerable to the passage of time than we might think. Correctly preserved artworks in museums and books in libraries will survive for centuries, whereas the digital art of the last few decades may not only be forgotten, but lost irretrievably. Solutions to these problems lie in major international initiatives designed to establish standards for disseminating cultural heritage, and also in the work of artists, digital curators and archivists striving to preserve, interpret, reinterpret and creatively transform the available cultural resources.

Josh Hadro, Constant Dullaart, Frank Cifaldi
moderacja: Piotr Rydzek

Speakers