Descrizione del progetto
Una nuova visione di internet attraverso la lente delle opere artistiche trascurate
Un gruppo di informatici, analisti ed esperti multimediali monitorerà, analizzerà e teorizzerà la produzione culturale online di alto valore. L’attenzione del gruppo di lavoro si concentrerà sulle opere artistiche online nascoste, celate o ritirate a causa del contesto di rapporti in cui erano inserite. Lo studio si svolgerà nell’ambito del progetto COSE, finanziato dal CER, che si propone di svelare i meccanismi interni delle opere d’arte basate sul codice informatico. Per mostrare per la prima volta questi aspetti ampiamente trascurati, un team interdisciplinare coniugherà metodi propri della storia dell’arte e approcci degli studi sui media, sui videogiochi e sulla programmazione informatica, oltre allo studio forense dei software e al visual design. I risultati del progetto potenzieranno inoltre le capacità degli studiosi in ambito umanistico, fornendo una serie di strumenti analitici e una comprensione generale della nostra condizione mediale-tecnologica.
Obiettivo
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The artistic pieces under analysis are all hidden, concealed, or somehow withdrawn due to the networked situation into which they were inserted.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.
Campo scientifico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetinternet access
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- natural sciencesmathematicspure mathematicstopology
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternetworld wide web
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Argomento(i)
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-AG - HORIZON Action Grant Budget-BasedIstituzione ospitante
76131 Karlsruhe
Germania