1. Genre rules as the framework for preservation and study of new media literature : predavanje na Festivalu novomedijske kulture Speculum Artium, lecture series New technologies, new perspectivesAleš Vaupotič, 2024, unpublished invited conference lecture Abstract: At its core, human epistemology is based on two pillars: sense experience (consider the Humean empiricism, or phenomenology) and set-theory based logic. Quine in “Epistemology Naturalized” understands a human as a natural transformer of a meager input from senses into a torrential output of descriptions. For him also Carnap’s rational reconstruction (a logical reconstruction of the world from sense data) can be construed as creative and imaginative mechanical simulations, of the transformations from the world of experiential implications into various languages. Such a detached and rule-governed idea of games as playful alternative worlds, possibly in a reduced state as argued by Huizinga, can provide an important perspective on algorithms of new media literature, as well as its other features. Rules for particular works are summarized in genre-constructs, which will be considered for the domain where new media and literature intersect. The genres can be derived form literary traditions, and from the basic aspects of new media art that encompass the algorithmic building of communication artifacts from (more or less vast) archives of utterances in various media, and of other data. Espen Aarseth’s theory considered cybertext a perspective for the study of literature, and not a particular genre (Cybertext, 5). Finally, there is an important problem that needs to be addressed: today, several generations of work by digital media artists are firmly in the past, while media art remains synonymous with “new” and “emergent,” and the growing vastness of the loss consequently goes unacknowledged. The genre-rules based approach attempts to tackle the preservation issue by identifying the key elements of individual works that need to be recorded and preserved. The descriptions are already interpretations with an intrinsic goal of making the works re-enactable and accessible to the audiences of the future. The pilot project of preserving the Nation – Culture project by Vuk Ćosić (2000) will be outlined in the conclusion. (ARIS J7-3158, Sustainable Digital Preservation of the Slovenian New Media Art) / Aleš Vaupotič is a literary comparatist, media theorist, and new-media artist. He works at the Research Centre for Humanities at the University of Nova Gorica. Between 2021 and 2023 he was the director of the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, and in 2022 the commissioner for the Slovenian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial. He is currently the project leader in an interdisciplinary research project Sustainable Digital Preservation of the Slovenian New Media Art. Among his research foci are the theory of discourse, semiotics, comparative art studies, new-media theory, methodology of digital humanities and realism in the arts. His monograph Vprašanje realizma (The Question of Realism, 2019) explores the continuities and shifts between traditional and new media. Keywords: genres, new media art, cultural heritage preservation Published in RUNG: 30.09.2024; Views: 196; Downloads: 0 Link to file This document has many files! More... |
2. Genre rules as the framework for preservation and study of new media literature : preserving the conceptual frameworkAleš Vaupotič, 2024, unpublished conference contribution Abstract: At its core, human epistemology is based on two pillars: sense experience (consider the Humean empiricism, or phenomenology) and set-theory based logic. Quine in “Epistemology Naturalized” understands a human as a natural transformer of a meager input from senses into a torrential output of descriptions. For him also Carnap’s rational reconstruction (a logical reconstruction of the world from sense data) can be construed as creative and imaginative mechanical simulations, of the transformations from the world of experiential implications into various languages. Such a detached and rule-governed idea of games as playful alternative worlds, possibly in a reduced state as argued by Huizinga, can provide an important perspective on algorithms of new media literature, as well as its other features. Rules for particular works are summarized in genre-constructs, which will be considered for the domain where new media and literature intersect. The genres can be derived form literary traditions, and from the basic aspects of new media art that encompass the algorithmic building of communication artifacts from (more or less vast) archives of utterances in various media, and of other data. Espen Aarseth’s theory considered cybertext a perspective for the study of literature, and not a particular genre (Cybertext, 5). Finally, there is an important problem that needs to be addressed: today, several generations of work by digital media artists are firmly in the past, while media art remains synonymous with “new” and “emergent,” and the growing vastness of the loss consequently goes unacknowledged. The genre-rules based approach attempts to tackle the preservation issue by identifying the key elements of individual works that need to be recorded and preserved. The descriptions are already interpretations with an intrinsic goal of making the works re-enactable and accessible to the audiences of the future. Keywords: new media genres, new media art preservation, Vuk Ćosić: Nation - Culture Published in RUNG: 30.08.2024; Views: 374; Downloads: 0 This document has many files! More... |
3. Kako se približati umetninam, umetnicam in umetnikom, umetnosti?Aleš Vaupotič, 2023, independent professional component part or a chapter in a monograph Abstract: Razstava z naslovom Od blizu - Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, 22. 12. 2022-2. 4. 2023 - je drugačna od običajnih razstav v Moderni galeriji, od razstav v galerijah nasploh, saj na njej niso predstavljena samo umetniška dela, ampak predvsem postopki ohranjanja teh del v muzejih. Slike, kipi, tudi videi in prostorske postavitve, vse to se sčasoma spreminja ali celo poškoduje. Pose- bej usposobljene strokovnjakinje in strokovnjaki z zelo širokega področja umetniških, humanističnih in naravoslovnih disciplin si zato s svojim raziskovalnim in zahtevnim strokovnim delom pri- zadevajo ta dela čim dlje ohraniti v stanju, da jih lahko gledamo in doživljamo na razstavah. Keywords: Moderna galerija, dostopnost razstav, restavratorstvo, konservatorstvo Published in RUNG: 08.07.2024; Views: 616; Downloads: 6 Link to file This document has many files! More... |
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5. Sustainable digital preservation of new media artNarvika Bovcon, Eszter Polónyi, Jaka Železnikar, Aleš Vaupotič, 2023, published scientific conference contribution Abstract: This paper is about two pilot studies conducted in 2022 that aimed to develop a model for preserving and archiving new media art work in the context of a research project on the sustainable digital preservation of new media art that is being co-hosted by the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana. As the works of art selected for the study by Slovenian new media art pioneers Vuk Ćosić (2000) and Srečo Dragan (2005) were technically obsolete or non-functional by the time of the study, the question of how to bring the artworks back into existence and what components of each artwork to include in the collection and preservation process constituted one aspect of our research. But this process of reconstruction also raised questions about how the preservation of media art is reshaping the practice of archiving within an institution whose holdings were, until recently, largely in traditional mediums. An interdisciplinary approach addressed the problem from different points of view, involving the practitioners, experts from art-history, museology, computer science, media theory and intellectual property rights. Keywords: digital cultural heritage, new media art preservation, new media art archives Published in RUNG: 28.05.2024; Views: 926; Downloads: 6 Full text (5,46 MB) This document has many files! More... |
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7. Sustainable digital preservation of the new media artAleš Vaupotič, Eszter Polónyi, Narvika Bovcon, Jaka Železnikar, 2023, published scientific conference contribution abstract Keywords: media studies, art history, new media art, archival studies, restoration studies, museum studies Published in RUNG: 12.02.2024; Views: 1860; Downloads: 9 Link to file This document has many files! More... |
8. Marko Jakše: Brez gospodarja / Senza padrone / Without a Master : 59. beneški bienale, mednarodna umetnostna razstava, 23. 4.–27. 11. 2022Narvika Bovcon, Ana Korenini, Borut Kovačec, Jaka Železnikar, Marko Jakše, 2022, software Abstract: Spletna razstava - interaktivni generator videov iz širšega izbora slik Marka Jakšeta. Paviljon Republike Slovenije na 59. mednarodni umetnostni razstavi – La Biennale di Venezia, Tese all'Isolotto, Arzenali, Benetke, 23. april–27. november 2022. Marko Jakše: Brez gospodarja. Komisar: Aleš Vaupotič. Kustos: Robert Simonišek. Spletišče: Ana Korenini, Borut Kovačec (VIKIDA), Narvika Bovcon, Jaka Železnikar. Producenta: Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, in Kulturno izobraževalno društvo KIBLA. Razstavo in katalog je podprlo Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije. Keywords: 59. beneški bienale, Marko Jakše, Paviljon Republike Slovenije, slikarstvom, spletna razstava, interaktivni generator videov Published in RUNG: 19.07.2023; Views: 1430; Downloads: 14 Link to file This document has many files! More... |
9. Uvodna besedaAleš Vaupotič, 2022, preface, editorial, afterword Abstract: Paviljon Republike Slovenije na 59. mednarodni umetnostni razstavi – La Biennale di Venezia, Tese all'Isolotto, Arzenali, Benetke, 23. april–27. november 2022. Marko Jakše: Brez gospodarja. Komisar: Aleš Vaupotič. Kustos: Robert Simonišek. Odnosi z javnostmi: Aurora Fonda, Mateja Lavrič. Zasnova paviljona in koordinator postavitve: eiletz ortigas | architects. Prevodi: Ennio Francavilla, Tamara Soban. Video: Gorazd Krnc. Fotografije: Dejan Habicht, DK, Matej Kristovič, Tomaž Lunder. Spletišče: Ana Korenini, Borut Kovačec (VIKIDA), Narvika Bovcon, Jaka Železnikar. Tehnični koordinator: Tomaž Kučer. Restavratorka-konservatorka: Nada Madžarac. Tajnica: Ana Žan. Tehnična ekipa: Boris Fister, Vojko Kmetič, Janez Kramžar, Armin Salihović, Duško Škrbin. Producenta: Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, in Kulturno izobraževalno društvo KIBLA. Moderna galerija se zahvaljuje lastnikom umetniških del: Slavojka Akrapovič, Matija Gorjanc, Boštjan Jančar. Razstavo in katalog je podprlo Ministrstvo za kulturo Republike Slovenije. Keywords: 59. beneški bienale, Marko Jakše, Paviljon Republike Slovenije, slikarstvom, prostorska postavitev, razstava Published in RUNG: 19.07.2023; Views: 1315; Downloads: 12 Full text (169,36 MB) This document has many files! More... |
10. Nacija - kultura : Marko Plahuta predstavitev o umetni inteligenci v delu Vuka Ćosića Nacija - kulturaMarko Plahuta, 2023, other monographs and other completed works Abstract: Strojno učenje in umetna inteligenca (UI) v računalništvu nista nova pojava, je pa zlasti UI v lanskem letu prestopila s področja stroke v najširše družbeno dogajanje in kaže, da bo imela na celotno družbo še nesluten, a zagotovo izjemno močan vpliv. Sklop tehnoloških in hkrati družbenih vprašanj in vizij zadeva tudi polje umetnosti. Delo Vuka Ćosića Nacija – Kultura kot enega svojih ključnih elementov uporablja UI. Kako je zastavljena, kako deluje, kako je sposobna iz kratkega tvita razviti sonetu podobno besedilo? Delovanje UI v okviru umetniškega dela je predstavil njen programer, Marko Plahuta. 12. januar 2023, Muzej sodobne umetnosti Metelkova, Ljubljana, Slovenija. Jezik: slovensko. Trajanje: 108' 51". Posnetek predstavitve z vprašanji in odgovori. Kamera in Montaža: Urša Rahne. Avtorske pravice za video: BY-NC-SA. Keywords: novomedijska umetnost, umetna inteligenca, MSUM Published in RUNG: 13.07.2023; Views: 2175; Downloads: 20 Link to file This document has many files! More... |