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- ISBN 9781529260557
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2026
- Publisher: Bristol University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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How do we position ourselves in relation to our digital cultural heritage when every software update threatens its very survival?
This book confronts the fragility of computer- and network-based art in an age of relentless technological obsolescence. Focusing on a seminal work by the pioneering artist duo JODI, this interdisciplinary study explores graphical user interfaces, executable files, hard-coded structures and the creative use of randomness. Through a model-assisted storytelling approach, it rethinks how programmed artworks can be remembered, analysed and reactivated once they cease to function.
A bold experiment in science communication, this volume is a must- read for scholars, practitioners and all who care about safeguarding our digital memory.
Daniela Hönigsberg is an art historian specialising in digital humanities and was a researcher in the COSE project.
Mayte Gómez Molina is a poet and 3D artist and was a researcher in the COSE project.
Yannick Westphal is an IT security specialist and a research associate on the COSE project.
Jiawen Yao is a Senior Algorithm Expert in Media AI R&D at Alibaba DAMO Academy.
Inge Hinterwaldner is Professor of the History of Contemporary Art at the Free University of Bozen–Bolzano and Principal Investigator of the COSE project.
