UNFOLD: Mediation by reinterpretation / Re-interpretation as a practice for the preservation of media artworks

UNFOLD #3: Reinterpreting the digital

LIMA is pleased to announce the third public event within the framework of UNFOLD on December 1st, continuing with the research line mediation by reinterpretation. How to revisit digital and media artworks over time? This evening programme will concentrate on the consequences that are brought about when using the mode of mediation as an act of reinterpretation specifically in digital- and media artworks. The key lecturers will concentrate on the idea of variability; posing concerns about authorship and transparency while taking - often limiting institutional protocols into account. How can we negotiate preservation strategies with regard to these principles?

Preserving media artworks is undeniably related to issues of technological obsolescence, networked connectivity and the interactive nature of digital art. A range of elements stretches the boundaries of traditional preservation methods and requires insights from both the artist and the curator to determinate the future viability of re-staging the piece. Most conservation practices are concentrating primarily on authenticity and functionality in relation to the rapid development of browsers, computer hardware and operating systems.

How do we deal with the changes of digital or media artworks over time, and how can the performative aspect of a work be preserved?

UNFOLD presents and researches reinterpretation not as a strategy that reinvents the originally intended, but rather rethinks it.

On December 1st, artists, academics and conservators (lecturers to be announced soon) will revolve around several topics in regard to the reinterpretation of digital art, followed by a panel discussion.

More about the project: http://www.li-ma.nl/site/article/unfold-mediation-reinterpretation