“The Different Histories of Electronic Art in the V2_ Archive” presented by Altena and van Dartel

Symposium:

• ISEA2022: 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art
• More presentations from ISEA2022:  

• Summit on New Media Art Archiving: Lightning Talks

• The Different Histories of Electronic Art in the V2_ Archive

• Arie Altena
• Michel van Dartel

Venue(s):

• MACBA – Convent dels Àngels, Barcelona, Spain

• V2_, Lab for the Unstable Media is an interdisciplinary center for art and media technology in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. It strives to build a ‘living archive’ of electronic art, using its own documentation from over 40 years, made accessible on its website. This presentation outlines some of the strategies to bring out the different histories of electronic art that narrate the art form’s critical role in giving meaning to and (re-)interpreting the real-world effects of technology.

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Keywords:

• living archive
• electronic art
• art history
• dissemination