The Dynamic Archive will present at The Third Summit on New Media Art Archiving that will take place as part of ISEA2023 at the Forum des Images in Paris, France, from Friday May 19 to Sunday May 21.
The Dynamic Archive presents its project, as well as, the paper "Imaginaries in Becoming", written by Irena Kukrić, Marcela Antipán Olate, Andrea Sick, which went through the double blind peer reviewing process for the 3rd SNMAA.
Abstract
Departing from one of the topics previously discussed in ISEA symposiums, this paper introduces an artistic research project, The Dynamic Archive (thedynamicarchive.net). As an open source, collaborative platform that collects processes and methods, it represents another direction in archival strategies in the age of computation. [1] The paper will also further explore the term “symbioses” by describing relations that occur within the project, such as the relations between curator and contributor, component and version, and its digital and physical presence. Since it could be regarded as a symbiotic organization that aims at creating symbiotic imaginaries, the paper will work through how these notions relate to The Dynamic Archive and possible alternative terms to consider. Taking the book Symbiotic Planet by Lynn Margulis as a starting point, the paper will look into notions such as Karan Barad’s “becoming” (focusing on process), and “virtual” (or “non-local,” as Denise Ferreira da Silva calls it). These positions question Western knowledge production and problematize what its systems imply. Our research project reflects on these terms, not only in trying to position itself among them, but in the very attempt to question them.