Book part: Historicization in the Archive: Digital art and originality
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Abstract
In digital art preservation, the seeming un-archivability of artworks re-mains to be a central issue. The processual dynamic of digital technologies and the ephemerality of installations as anarchival qualia cannot be pre-served with traditional archive and conservation strategies. By reading digital artworks as archival artefacts within the process of historicization and its underlying knowledge cognition, this un-archivability is investi-gated. The problem of originality in regard to digital art’s modular and processual characteristics as well as its function as a concept inherent to the archive as structure of power and knowledge becomes palpable. The aim is to question how innovative archive systems can alter these struc-tures to incorporate digital art in its mediality and collective aesthetic.
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