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Early internet based artworks are disappearing rapidly and en masse, due to various reasons such as technical problems, software updates, and server costs (to name a few).

These conceptual, technical and performative works will be lost for future generations, without the research and contextualization many of these works deserve as some of the most interesting and significant artistic productions of these times. As a response to the very precise and therefor slow developments in the field of digital art archiving and preservation, the artist based initiative for documenting and archiving net.artdatabase by Constant Dullaart and Robert Sakrowski has been getting attention from collectors, artists and institutions world wide. Their approach of subjective documenting, and straightforward collecting of meta data is aimed at the participation and exchange of the collected documentation by all parties interested in preservation of internet based artworks.

The online art works subject to this documentation and archiving project are very often (meant to be) enjoyed in a private situation, in the space of a viewer and their personal computer. These works barely have an existence for more than a decade, and are in function from the moment the artist initiates the possibility of the online experience, until possible technical failure. The hardware that the viewer uses to enjoy the art work, and the social circumstances on the internet are two things that (next to all the programming issues) prove incredibly difficult to archive. Comparing contemporary online art works to performance art, as many artists do, makes it even more impossible to save the work in its entirety for future research. Although the discussion around documenting and re-enacting performance based art works is extremely valid at this point in time, this project decides to archive through documenting. Documenting not only the work as it is consumed (by way of screen-capture), but also the environment in which this is done, by way of a video recording. These video's will be played in sync, to show not only the work in the way it was viewed, but also how it was viewed.

In this workshop we will document art works of your preference, but we will also have a list of works, recent, and not so recent, for you to look at and enjoy. We will work in groups of two, where we will first prepare the meta data, and select the work to document. After this we will record, edit and upload the material.
Can this method of preservation stimulate the exhibiting of internet based artworks, offline or online? Will it stimulate the exchange of documentation, meta data and research? And will it get the viewers of the artworks to document their experiences? All these questions and more can be discussed with the initiators of this project. And your experience will be documented and archived.

Maximum number of participants: 10
Workshop language: German/English

Location: transmediale archive, Podewil, Klosterstr. 68, room nr. 239, U-Klosterstraße (U2)

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