Descripción del proyecto
Una nueva perspectiva de internet a través del prisma de las obras de arte ignoradas
Un equipo de informáticos, analistas y expertos en multimedia rastreará, analizará y teorizará sobre valiosas producciones culturales en línea. Se centrará en las obras de arte en línea que están ocultas, escondidas o retiradas debido a la situación de red en la que se insertaron. El equipo llevará a cabo este estudio en el marco del proyecto COSE, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, que se propone revelar el funcionamiento interno de las obras de arte basadas en código. Para revelar estos aspectos tan desatendidos, un equipo interdisciplinario complementará los métodos de la historia del arte con enfoques de estudios de medios, juegos y códigos, análisis forense de «software» y diseño visual. Los hallazgos del proyecto también dotarán a los académicos de las humanidades de instrumentos analíticos y una comprensión general de nuestra condición tecnológica de los medios.
Objetivo
What lies beneath the surface of computational artworks? Online pieces have ‘roots’ that extend much deeper than the flat screen monitors on which we view them – they may even be distributed, occupying multiple sites on the Internet. Nobody has ever been able to see the responsive and connective agency of these works with their own eyes. COSE sets out to reveal the inner workings of code-based artworks, as well as their embeddedness in the various niches of the World Wide Web. Shedding light on this black box will enable us to gain a fuller appreciation of these artworks and empower scholars in the humanities as they begin to confront programmed works, providing analytical instruments and a general understanding of our media-technological condition.
The artistic pieces under analysis are all hidden, concealed, or somehow withdrawn due to the networked situation into which they were inserted. As art historians prefer to dedicate themselves to the surface features, they tend to overlook such works or ignore important aspects of their design: codes, files, software performance. As these interventions operate in non-standard locations, they implicitly highlight the circumstances where artists saw opportunities to critically exploit the specifics of the net in order to post a message. COSE will offer a new view of the Internet through the lens of these artworks that reclaim the right to productively diversify Internet access and usage.
In order to uncover these much-neglected aspects, an interdisciplinary team will complement art historical methods with approaches from media, game and code studies, software forensics and visual design. Taking the artworks as the starting point, the Internet will be presented as complex of activated affordances rather than as yet another node-graph-diagram. COSE will develop an original pictorial language to generate immersive views into the specific ‘machine rooms’ of the artworks and their ecosystems as a processual deep topology.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet access
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- natural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicstopology
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetworld wide web
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedInstitución de acogida
76131 Karlsruhe
Alemania