“Archiving the In‐Between: ONB-Labs Art Program – Artists engaging with digital collections of the Austrian National Library” presented by Naveau, Posch, Krickl and Hammer
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- Summit on New Media Art Archiving: Papers - Artists & Archives
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- Archiving the In‐Between: ONB-Labs Art Program – Artists engaging with digital collections of the Austrian National Library
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ONB-Labs is the platform of the ONB (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek/Austrian National Library) for scientific and creative use of digital collections. In addition to the general opening of selected digital collections as images, texts and metadata, the ONB-Labs actively seek the exchange with young as well as established artists since the beginning of the ONB-Labs in 2018. Currently, in collaboration with the University of Arts Linz, Austria, ONB-Labs is now going a step further by critically questioning the artistic/scientific engagement with digital collections and archives as well as their potential of expanding knowledge spaces through and with the work on data.
This paper analyzes and highlights recent results of artistic-scientific processes and contextualizes the potential of working on the processes of “archiving the in-between” via artistic/scientific means and therefore highlighting relations and connections between data, objects and spaces in archives in order to gain new knowledge and open new ways of understanding and engaging with digital collections. Based on the archiving strategies and experiences of the Interface Cultures Department at the University of Arts Linz in relation to forms of representation of an artistic oeuvre in digital space (as presented last year by Tiago Martins, Christa Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau), this paper refers to the digital original in the digital inter-spaces and critically examines the procedural, artistic and scientific gain of knowledge in the process of ordering, connecting, translating and contextualizing the in-between of the digital archive realm.
