The Culture & Technology podcast 021 | May 29, 2024
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Dragan Espenschied: Archiving as Resistance
In this episode of The Culture & Technology Podcast, host Severin Matusek sat down with Dragan to talk about the evolution of digital art, emulation-as-a-service and Rhizome’s mission to champion digital art and culture in a world that’s increasingly dominated by large platforms.
How do you preserve digital art?
Dragan Espenscheid is the director of digital preservation at Rhizome, the world’s leading art organization dedicated to born-digital art and culture. A first generation net artist and 8-bit musician, Dragan has pioneered Rhizome’s Digital Preservation Program since 2014 where he stewards its ArtBase collection of more than 2000 pieces of software and net art.
GUESTS
Dragan Espenschied (he/him) is a net artist, musician, and digital art conservator. He has been leading Rhizome's Digital Preservation Program since 2014. Espenschied’s activities as a conservator are mostly focused on infrastructure and field-wide action concerning web archiving, emulation, and linked open data.
HOST
Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.
IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT
Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarships, and digital preservation. https://rhizome.org/about/
Digital Folklore (2010) contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of the web, and the birth of its ‘pop culture’. https://digitalfolklore.org/
Emulation-as-a-Service, is a web-based platform originally developed by the bwFLA team at the University of Freiburg. https://eaasi.gitlab.io/program_docs/intro-emulation-workshop/06-eaasi/index.html
AppArt exhibitions were held at ZKM between 2011 and 2017, for the best artistic developments in the field of applications for smartphones and tablets since. https://zkm.de/en/project/appartaward
CREDITS
The Culture & Technology Podcast is a long-form interview podcast produced by the Vienna Business Agency @wirtschaftsagentur_wien that aims to establish a long-term perspective on the ways emerging technologies impact cultural production.
Editorial Team (in alphabetical order): Carina Dala, Kesia Inkersole, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Heinz Wolf
Theme Music by Hell Mutang.
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