| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-05-28T14:03:35Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2019-05-28T14:03:35Z | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://95.216.75.113:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/43 | |
| dc.description | Biography: Florian Wiencek (B.Sc. in Digital Media – 2006; M.A. in Art and Cultural Mediation – 2009; University of Bremen) is currently researcher and lecturer in the Department for Image Science at Danube University Krems, working on the Archive of Digital Art and developing projects in the field of Digital Humanities.
He is PhD fellow at Jacobs University Bremen, Germany (Visual Communication and Expertise), finishing his thesis on the topic of “Digital Mediation of Art and Culture”, analyzing how digital media and digital data with their characteristics and affordances are currently employed in practices of mediation of art and culture and for cultural learning. Moreover he is interested in the creative (re-)use of digital heritage data for co-creative knowledge generation about and with art and culture together with the audience inside and outside of an exhibition or institution. As co-founder of “Die Musealisten Berlin” he transforms the research into practice, developing digital concepts and solutions for museums and cultural institutions.
Before he was teaching as visiting lecturer in the department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University (Durham NC, USA), served as Steering Committee Member of the Research Center “Visual Communication and Expertise” (Jacobs University Bremen) and was working as research associate in the BMBF-funded project „Visual–Film–Discourse“ (Jacobs University Bremen) on the categorization and image typologies of news images and the use of image archives and -databases in news production.
Moreover he has worked as Media Officer at Global Young Academy in Science Communications, as freelance graphic- and webdesigner and as curator / project manager / designer in several exhibition projects. His main research interests are digital mediation of art and culture, digital archives, media- and hybrid art, digital culture and communication as well as co-creative and participatory methods of knowledge generation and education.
More info and publications: www.florianwiencek.com | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.type | Presentation | |
| dc.title | Datafying Media Art. Assessing Digital Methods for Media Art Research | |
| dc.contributor.author | Wiencek, Florian | |
| dc.description.abstract | Where the initial wave of Digital Humanities (DH) concentrated mainly on textual analysis, the contemporary DH witnessed a visual turn. This resulted not only in establishing visuals as subject of digital analysis but also a focus on graphical methods of knowledge production, the development of transferrable tools and collaborative knowledge generation (see Burdick, Drucker, Lunenfeld, Presner, & Schnapp, 2012, p. SG 2). At the same time the trend of datafication paired with data analysis is often equaled with the promise of a deeper understanding of complex and dynamic realities (see Schäfer & Es, 2017, p. 13).
Using the Archive of Digital Art (ADA) as prime example, this paper will assess digital methodologies for MediaArtResearch that are capable of taking into account the high complexity of MediaArt, e.g. its nature as (interactive) processes as well as the realms of experience made possible by rule-based systems and technological configurations. Working on mediations of MediaArt projects the analysis of these documentations needs to reach “beyond their surface”.
The multifaceted methodology of digital archiving is a central point of investigation. On the one hand an open Web 2.0 archive serves as basis for further digital analysis as it collaboratively builds up a large corpus of comparable data and metadata about media art projects that can be enhanced by a community with multiple perspectives. On the other hand the methodology of modeling as knowledge generation process promotes specific understandings of the nature of MediaArt projects. Going beyond this base-methodology the paper will show possibilities of further mixed-method analysis that can be performed on ADA-metadata, enabling new questions and insights towards the complex field of MediaArt. | |
| dc.subject | Digital Humanities | |
| dc.subject | methodology | |
| dc.subject | archive | |
| dc.subject | modelling | |
| dc.subject | collaboration | |
| dc.subject | knowledge generation | |
