Contemporary materialities: historicizing in time of profile wars
Contemporary materialities: historicizing in time of profile wars
“Archiving digital art is so much simpler, as you don’t need to wrap it up for storage, use special products to stop insects, mark and stamp it, or monitor its moisture level. But digital artworks require care, too. In order to set down rules for archiving, we must first ask artists what they need most, so their art can remain usable in the future,” Constant Dullaart told Martyna Turska in an interview for dwutygodnik.com. Dullaart is one of the key figures in post-Internet art; a researcher of the social, economic and political structures that underpin digital information culture. His best-known work, Jennifer in Paradise, reconstructs the story of the first Photoshopped image (a semi-nude woman on a beach) and the origins of the program that enabled mass manipulation of how reality is depicted.
Dullaart was also involved from the outset in launching a platform to archive and conserve digital art – net.artdatabase.