The Meta-Experience of (Media) Art. Activating the Archive

THE META-
EXPERIENCE
OF (MEDIA) ART
Activating the Archive
RENEW | New Imagery | 11.10.2013
Florian Wiencek
Jacobs University Bremen

REPRODUCTION / RECONSTRUCTION
OF ART & CULTURAL ARTIFACTS
Google Art Project – High Resolution Image of the drawing
“Two Public Sculptures” (Andrea Zittel, 1999, MOMA)

REPRODUCTION / RECONSTRUCTION
OF ART & CULTURAL ARTIFACTS
Digital Reconstructions produced in the
course “Digital Cities”, Jacobs University /
Duke University, Spring 2013
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CB
A: Digital 3D model created by a student using Google Sketchup . B: Colored 3D point cloud image acquired with laser
scanning technology, courtesy of Andreas Neuchter (Jacobs U). C: Development of the St. Catherine district over time
created by students in Google Sketchup. Source: Timothy Senior.

REPRODUCTION /
RECONSTRUCTION OF ART
& CULTURAL ARTIFACTS
Photogrammetry for the Alife Arch
Project, Joe Williams & Kiki Fox,
Spring 2012; Duke Wired! Lab
http://www.dukewired.org/project/
the-alife-arch/
Apostles Photogrammetry in 123D Catch, class “Museum Inside-
Out”, Duke University, Spring 2012. Image courtesy of Mark Olson.
Photogrammetry as method of digital reconstruction

DIGITIZATION
•  we move beyond the mere exhibition- and cult-value (Walter
Benjamin) of a cultural object towards its manipulation value
(Jos de Mul 2009)
•  interaction and behaviour determined by software and its
interfaces (Manovich 2013)

DOCUMENTATION
•! Documentation translates a (ephemeral,
timebased, process-based, experience-
based) project into data about the project
and meta-data, or in short into information.
•! documentation as embodiment of memory
of the project until its re-realization
(Jean-Marc Poinsot)
•! formal vs. informal documentation
botaniq.org: „A-Volve“ (1994) by Christa
Sommerer and Laurent Mignonneau,
documented by Isabella Haaf
Screenshot of the detail view of “A-
Volve” (Christa Sommerer & Laurent
Mignonneau, 1994) of virtualart.at

ARCHIVES, COLLECTIONS,
DATABASES

IDEA OF THE NETWORK
Screenshot of the V2_ Knowledge Base

CRITICAL
MEDIATION OF ART
Production of new knowledge with the visitor
instead of reproduction of existing knowledge.
Fostering the engagement of the visitor with the item
on display and his/her own interpretation.
PARTICIPATORY
MUSEUM
Goals
Carmen Moersch (2011)
Nina Simon (2010)
Participatory design is about the people.
Museum space as a space for social experience,
facilitator for meaningful interaction with the artistic
projects and with other visitors.
Goals

CO-CREATIVE KNOWLEDGE GENERATION

MAKING DATA
ACCESSIBLE /
RE-USABLE /
DISCOVERABLE

“BEING OF THE WEB, NOT ONLY
ON THE WEB” (SEBASTIAN CHAN)
cooper-hewitt.org

ART GENOME PROJECT
artsy.net
related art search

ONLINE EXHIBITION
Google Cultural Institute – Online Exhibition “Recalling the Lost Neighborhoods”

GUIDED TOUR
GAMA-WIKI
wiki.gama-gateway.eu/

CO-CREATIVE
KNOWLEDGE
GENERATION

BUILDING NETWORKS
Meta-Image Project as part of Prometheus
Bildarchiv (prometheus-bildarchiv.de);
Source: http://www2.leuphana.de/meta-image/
Anleitungen.php

COLLABORATIVE
EXHIBITION /
MAPPING
http://www.europeana1989.eu/en/

EXPERIENCING
ART & CULTURE IN
THE METAVERSE

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EXPLORATION OF EXHIBITION /
GALLERY CONTEXTS
Google Art Project – Indoor Street View of MOMA depicting an installed video
installation in its exhibition context at the time of exposure

VIRTUAL REENACTMENT
VR - Reenactment of Valie Export & Peter Weibel – “Tapp & Tastkino”, Secondlife
Eva & Franco Mattes, 2007, 0100101110101101.org/

AUGMENTED REALITY
AR-Tour: Jan Rothuizen:
This Is Not A Church (2010)
Source: http://www.stedelijk.nl/artours/artours-app/jan-
rothuizens-nieuwe-editie-van-zijn-this-is-not-a-church-tour
Sander Veenhof & Mark Skwarek: Exhibition
“WeARinMoMA” (2010) (Source: www.sndrv.nl/moma/)
"Banksky in MoMA" re-enactment
Photo: Will Pappeneheimer
Source: http://www.sndrv.nl/moma/?page=photos

GALLERY ONE
CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Images courtesy of Local Projects and Cleveland Museum of Art

multimedia guide
http://nasher.fluxguide.com
Photographs: Nasher Museum of Art, J Caldwell
Digital Mediation in the Exhibition “Eat, Pray, Weave”
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, 15.09.2012 – 13.01.2013

DIGITAL CITIES – FINAL PRESENTATIONS
ISIS 380S, Spring 2013, Duke University, Department of Art, Art Histories & Visual Studies – Instructor: Florian Wiencek
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DIGITAL CITIES
DUKE U / JACOBS U, SPRING 2013
Left: starting page of “A Day On The Tobacco Trail”, by Rebecca Lai, Jenny Kuo and
Yu Zhou Lee; Right: Eleanor Mehlenbacher demonstrating “Whisp”.

META-EXPERIENCE
•  meta is used in the sense of “abstraction” and “about”
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta)
•  re-experience vs. new experience on the basis of
cultural data

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