Collaborative work has been describing circulating work processes in artistic, creative and scientific fields for a few years now, based on open source strategies in software development. Following on from this, players from the arts, culture, science and IT industry are working together on an idea for the arts and culture sector: a “dynamic archive” in which artists and designers document, copy, share, develop and pass on their working methods and processes in an open network.
Finding new forms of exchange and sharing
This archive is planned as a publicly accessible, constantly expanding network that brings together students of the University of the Arts from various fields and active artists – especially from the fields of media art, design, theater and performance.
Artistic work documentation such as notations, software, choreographic plans, technical descriptions, scores and tools are to be collected and at the same time made available for others to use and further develop.
Conference as the starting point of the project
The conference at the University of the Arts Bremen from May 28 to 30 aims to discuss and test in practice what such a “dynamic archive” can achieve. In performances, lectures and panel discussions, renowned artists, filmmakers, authors, designers, scientists and IT experts will also address questions of authorship and copyright.
The aim of the conference is to offer an open exchange and a field for experimentation in order to reflect on and test potentials for the fields of theater and performance, media art, design and software development. Archive concepts, collaborative artist groups, web-based versioning systems in the field of design and art, physical material archives and other exchange formats will be presented and discussed at the conference.
It also asks what role an art academy can and should play in the initiation and development of such a process: How can the process of “dynamic archiving” be activated and kept in motion? What could this constantly changing collection look like on the Internet and in physical space?
But what dangers also exist within such a process, for example through the anticipation of commercial structures that unfold beyond copyright, licenses and patent disputes and like to focus solely on growth and profit?
organized by the
University of the Arts Bremen
in cooperation with:
- Schwankhalle Bremen (Artistic Director: Dr. Pirkko Husmann)
- Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art Oldenburg (Artistic Directors: Edit Molnár & Marcel Schwierin)
- German Maritime Museum, Bremerhaven (Prof. Dr. Sunhild Kleingärtner (Managing Director), Prof. Dr. Ruth Schilling (Scientific Research and Exhibition Coordinator))
- Bern University of the Arts (including areas: Performative Arts and Conservation-Restoration, Dr. Andreas Vogel, Dean of the Department of Art and Design)
- HEC GmbH IT-Engineering Bremen (Managing Directors Thorsten Haase; Frank Düsebeck)
Initiated and organized by Andrea Sick and Dennis Paul
with the support of Asli Serbest, Tania Prill, Markus Walthert, Jan Charzinski and Lennart Klein