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ANNUAL SUMMITS 2008 Summit Launch of issue 13 of .dpi, Studio XX’s electronic periodical: “Documenter l’oubli, art et archives aujourd’hui”
ANNUAL SUMMITS 2008 Summit Launch of issue 13 of .dpi, Studio XX’s electronic periodical: “Documenter l’oubli, art et archives aujourd’hui”
Launch of issue 13 of .dpi, Studio XX’s electronic periodical: “Documenter l’oubli, art et archives aujourd’hui”
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Day 1, Group 3Chantal Dumas, editor-in-chief .dpi electronic periodical, Studio XX, MontréalÉmilie Houssa, guest editor .dpi electronic periodical, Studio XX, Montréal This new issue of .Dpi proposes to think about the complex links that exist nowadays between art and archives. Today, as new technologies enable the production of more and more artistic “documents”, how can art become a tool for archiving our society? ...
* Please note that this presentation is in French. |
| Chantale Dumas © DOCAM 2008 |
| ... Furthermore, which tools have the role of archiving contemporary art? To what extent can art self-document itself? What do we have to forget when we are confronted with an evermore-increasing volume of documents and works? How do we use “wastes”? How can our contemporary art productions build our future memory? And which type of memory would that be? |