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Performativity and provenance in the net art archive: the interface and infrastructure of Rhizome’s Artbase

Talk by Lozana Rossenova Wednesday 5 September 14.00-15.30 Digital Living Research Commons Helsingforsgade 14, building 5347

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Tidspunkt

Onsdag 5. september 2018,  kl. 14:00 - 15:33

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Helsingforsgade 14, building 5347

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Digital Living Research Commons

Title: Performativity and provenance in the net art archive: the interface and infrastructure of Rhizome’s Artbase

This talk will focus on my collaborative doctoral research project with digital arts organisation Rhizome, which aims to develop a theoretical and practical approach towards the redesign of the interface of Rhizome’s historic archive of net art – the ArtBase. The performative and processual characteristics of net art works do not easily conform to the modes of classification and provenance description traditionally employed in cultural heritage knowledge management systems. At the same time, many of the artworks in the ArtBase archive also problematise established paradigms within the field of human-computer interaction, which makes the design of the archive a particularly interesting use case for rethinking concepts such as transparency, (in)visibility and reflexivity in relation to digital user interfaces. How can the archive’s design and infrastructure address such challenges? In this talk, I discuss the value of taking a multidisciplinary approach – looking to archival theory, digital preservation and media studies, in order to develop a critical design practice and I share some of my current research findings. 

BIO

Lozana Rossenova is a London-based designer and researcher. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Centre for the Study of the Networked Image at London South Bank University and her research is a collaboration with Rhizome, the international born-digital art organisation based in New York. Lozana’s research work with CSNI and Rhizome aims to address questions relating to presentation, performativity and user interaction/participation in the context of the archive of net art. Lozana holds a BFA in Graphic Design from Adelphi University, New York (US), and an MA from the Department of Typography and Graphic Communication at the University of Reading (UK). Lozana is also a visiting lecturer at the University of Reading.