DASH Archives - July 2015

The ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART features SEAN CUBITT
www.digitalartarchive.at 

Scholar, curator and writer SEAN CUBITT is currently Joint Head of
Department Media and Communications at Goldsmiths University of London.
His research focuses on the history of visual technologies, media art
history, and relationships between environmental and post-colonial
criticism of film and media. His last publications The practice of light
(2014) and Digital Light (2015, edited together with Daniel Palmer and
Nathaniel Tkacz) investigate light, as material and practice and its
manipulation through visual technologies. A new book Ecomediations
focusing on the environmental impacts of digital media is in
preparation.

His major publications include EcoMedia (2005), The Cinema Effect
(2004), Simulation and Social Theory (2001), Digital Aesthetics, Theory,
Culture & Society (1998), Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture
(1993) and Timeshift: On Video Culture (1991). 

CUBITT held talks and keynotes at conferences all over the world and
co-curated exhibitions such as Arte y Optica at Espacio Fundación
Telefónica in Lima, 2013 and The World is Everything That Is The
Case, the Australian Representation at ISEA2011 in Istanbul. He is on
the editorial boards of a number of journals including Screen, Cultural
Politics, Animation, International Journal of Cultural Politics, Visual
Communications, Futures, Time and Society, fibreculture, MIRAJ and The
New Review of Film and television Studies, moreover he is series editor
for Leonardo Books, MIT Press.  

Find out more about SEAN CUBITT >
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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. 

COLLABORATIVE ARCHIVING OF DIGITAL ART
The large assortment of information on Sean CUBITT and hundreds of
other leading scholars and artists were carried out by the scholars and
artists themselves in assistance with members of the ADA community. The
new ADA web tool allows members to archive artist statements, works
descriptions, literature, information on exhibitions, high resolution
images, blueprints, videos etc. Artists and scholars are invited to
contribute actively to the archive and to work collaboratively on the
documentation and analysis of digital art. 

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. 

SHARE YOUR RESEARCH AND NEWS WITH PEERS AND THE COMMUNITY
The community can upload publications and PDFs, announce upcoming
events, post comments, document exhibitions, conferences and other
relevant news. 

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 &
et al.

ADVISORY BOARD: Christiane PAUL, Roy ASCOTT, Erkki HUHTAMO,  Gunalan
NADARAJAN, Martin ROTH, et. al.

ADA team: Oliver GRAU
Michaela SEISER (Editor, Community Admin)
Sebastian HALLER, Janina HOTH, Valerie KUMMER, Viola RÜHSE, 
Wendy COONES, Ann-Christin RENN (Editorial Team)

digitalart.editor@donau-uni.ac.at 
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