Data Trash
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- ISEA2011: 17th International Symposium on Electronic Art
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Session Title:
- Compumorphic Art – The Computer as Muse
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- Data Trash
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Panel: Compumorphic Art: The Computer as Muse
Data Trash looks critically at the evolution of the online interface and its appropriation back into object based artifacts, clarifying the pivotal place of the network in our cultural realm. Archiving and the documentary have come to the fore in many arenas of arts practice, and the web has changed print design forever. Networked art however has often relied on non-standard software and hardware, glitches, and happy accidents, but archives usually only retain works which are easy to conserve, because they use common and stable formats. With the certainty of corruption, mutation and decay, online art assumes the mantle of data trash. In response a mutant field of migratory practice emerged from net.art culture. Artists started producing static artefacts from the ephemeral online world in medias such as embroidery, paintings, drawings, engraving, sculptures, machinima, etchings and vinyl records. Oddly these migrations to other media have a ready-made future while the ephemeral coded works they are derived from do not.
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