Doing Documentation @MAP – Media | Archive | Performance #14

Doing Documentation
Special Issue of the e-journal MAP – Media / Archive / Performance #14
co-edited by Annet Dekker and Gabriella Giannachi

Documentation is a burgeoning field that concerns a range of disciplines and practices, including performance, theatre, film, music, opera, digital and new media arts, archival and museum studies, conservation, curation, and human computer interaction. More and more commonly do artists, researchers, and cultural organisations document not only the reception or user experiences of an artwork, but also its creation (even retrospectively) and iterative development over time, offering detail about a given artwork’s context, convergence, and even deterioration.

Divided in four chapters, MAP #14 explores the complexities of doing documentation of digital art with contributions by: Miriam Akkermann; sasha arden; Annet Dekker, Katrina Sluis and Gaia Tedone; Olivia Eriksson; Carlijn Juste; James Newman; Bilyana Palankasova and Sarah Cook; Maria Tane; Aga Wielocha; and Wang-Yun Yen.

This special edited issue is made possible with the support of the AHRC, and the Documenting Digital Art project, AH/S00663X/1

Special thanks to: Franz Anton Cramer, Barbara Büscher, and René Damm