<nettime-ann> The ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA) releases CHRISTOPHER SALTER documentation

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The ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA) releases documentation on CHRISTOPHER SALTER

 

Chris Salter is Concordia University Research Chair in New Media, Technology and the Senses, Co-Director of the Hexagram network, Director of the Hexagram Concordia Centre for Research and Creation in Media Art and Technology and Associate Professor for Computation Arts in the Department of Design and Computation Art at Concordia University, Montreal.

 

His numerous articles and books (Alien Agency, 2015; Entangled, 2010, MIT Press) reflect on his artistic development between research in the humanities, multi-sensory engineering and collaborative practice in the fields of digital art and theatre. By combining digital sound and animation with questions of materiality and performance in his experimental art installations and projects, Salter critically and aesthetically reflects on discourses in literature, psychology, performativity, sensory experience, cultural theory and philosophy. His projects were exhibited all over the world at e.g. National Art Museum of China, Venice Architecture Biennale, Elektra Festival, Ars Electronica, Transmediale.

 

QUOTES

Roberto SIMANOWSKI (City University, Hong Kong) on “TGARDEN”: “[Salter] calls the goal of his work a kind of reflected immersion, where the audience participates as both collaborator and critic […].”

 

Sarah BAY-CHENG (Bowdoin College, Maine): Chris Salter’s extensively researched and compellingly argued Entangled: Technology and the Transformation of Performance (2010) is the most wide-ranging survey of digital performance practices since Steve Dixon’s Digital Performance.

MediaArtResearch KEYWORDS: Architecture, Environment, Senses, Performative, Poly-sensory, Body, Theatre, Dance, Light, Movement.

Click on a keyword to see the entries on the crosshistorical Meta-Thesaurus with works from Graphic Collection Göttweig Abbey and the Archive of Digital Art.

 

 

SALTER on ADA

The ongoing documentation of Chris Salter’s work on ADA goes back to early interactive installations with Sponge in 1996 to his recent works in 2016. Videos, images, information on technology and a bibliography of his inspirations from science and philosophy can be found among the data on the respective artwork profiles as well as a general bibliography with Salter’s publications and all the authors mentioned on the artist profile.

The ADA documentation also sheds light on the conceptualisation of an artwork. Several installation plans and exhibition views can demonstrate along with the technical data not only the final project, but the development process as well. A blog on blogspot.co.at (now part of Google’s blogger.com), initiated by Sha Xin Wei for the “Membrane” installation at V2, was archived by the ADA team for future analysis. The international team of artists and scholars used the blog to share and discuss a few results in the development of the art project. Parts of the conceptualisation and execution of the artwork can be traced when reading the blog entries and commentaries such as the development of a first 3D model made of cartonage to illustrate the visual and sculptural design of the responsive screen and the display of live video feed software for the final installation. See Chris Salter’s Profile on ADA: https://www.digitalartarchive.at/database/artists/general/artist/salter.html

 

 

BECOME A MEMBER ON THE ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA)

ARTISTS and SCHOLARS are invited to become members of the online community and set up their ADA profile! To ensure a high academic standard, five published articles and/or exhibitions are required to become members of the ADA community. Apply for an account here: www.digitalartarchive.at/support/account-request.html

 

SHARE YOUR RESEARCH WITH PEERS AND THE COMMUNITY

Community members can upload publications and PDFs, announce upcoming events, post comments, document exhibitions, conferences and other relevant news.

 

ADA: THOUSANDS OF ARTWORKS

Since its foundation in 1999, the ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (former Database of Virtual Art) has grown to be the most important online archive for digital art. In cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions it has been documenting the rapidly evolving world of digital art and its related fields for more than a decade and contains today a selection of thousands of artworks at the intersection of art, science and technology.  ARTISTS and SCHOLARS are invited to join the community and set up their own archive pages.

 

EXPANDED DOCUMENTATION FOR THE NEEDS OF DIGITAL ART

Due to the processual, ephemeral, interactive, technology-based and fundamentally context-dependent character of digital art, it is at risk for becoming extinct without an adequate documentation. Therefore, the ADA is based on an expanded concept of documentation, which takes account of the specific conditions of digital art.

ARTISTS represented, among many others: Rebecca ALLEN, Suzanne ANKER, Cory ARCANGEL, Roy ASCOTT, Louis BEC, Maurice BENAYOUN, Paolo CIRIO, Charlotte DAVIES, FLEISCHMANN & STRAUSS, Masaki FUJIHATA, Ken GOLDBERG, Agnes HEGEDÜS, Lynn HERSHMAN LEESON, Ryoji IKEDA, Eduardo KAC, Ken RINALDO, KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH, Lev MANOVICH, George LEGRADY, Golan LEVIN, Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER, Joseph NECHVATAL, Michael NAIMARK, David ROKEBY, Jeffrey SHAW, Julius v. BISMARCK, Paul SERMON, Karl SIMS, SOMMERER & MIGNONNEAU, STANZA, Nicole STENGER, THOMSON & CRAIGHEAD, Peter WEIBEL, et al.

 

Advisory board: Christiane PAUL, Roy ASCOTT, Erkki HUHTAMO, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Martin ROTH, et. al.

 

ADA TEAM:

Oliver GRAU (Head and Scientific Conception)

Janina HOTH, Wendy COONES, Ann-Christin RENN, Viola RÜHSE, Devon SCHILLER, Florian WIENCEK (Editorial Team)

 

Contact us at digitalart.editor@donau-uni.ac.at

www.digitalartarchive.at/

 

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