work(flow) in progress
In working with fuzzy sets (see earlier post) there is a “priority at the operational level (…) to interpolate a workable mandate from the vague charge. (…) Issues of intent must be explored, but from an action-oriented perspective (Lerner and Wanat, 502).” This is why I have made an attempt to come up with a … Continue reading
Archiving interactives @ CD-rom hackathon
It wasn’t uncommon for experimental artists in the 90’s to use interactive CD-roms as a medium for their art. These are now part of several collections, both private and institutional. At the time CD-roms were approached as stable data carriers, but we know now that they too are subject to software and hardware obsolesence and … Continue reading
The lack of a body of works
Two months into the research project and one aspect has ‘failed’. One of the goals I set myself was to come up with a body of interactive works based on which observations could be made about the technical variety, the genres that are represented and which analytical tools could be developed. The criteria I came … Continue reading
Relevance of archiving interactives
For those involved in the long-term conservation of audio-visual content the questions here discussed might seem evident. For those who have yet to be convinced I would like to provide some contextual information. For decades archives for audio-visual material have dealt with what we could call ‘discrete objects’, they are isolated products that translate into … Continue reading
Archiving Interactives: ready, not so steady, go!
Welcome to this blog! It is devoted to my research at the Dutch Institute of Sound and Vision, a dynamic archival organisation in Hilversum, the Netherlands. The aim of this blog is to give my research a bit of that dynamic, interactive, participative, not-so-steady streak that is characteristic of the object of my study. At … Continue reading
Archiving Interactives 