The Surplus of Copying: How Shadow Libraries and Pirate Archives Contribute to the Creation of Cultural Memory and the Commons

Sollfrank, Cornelia

Digital artworks tend to have a problematic relationship with the white cube – in particular, when they are intended and optimized for online distribution. While curators and exhibition-makers usually try to avoid showing such works altogether, or at least aim at enhancing their sculptural qualities to make them more presentable, the exhibition Top Tens featured an abundance of web quality digital artworks, thus placing emphasis on the very media condition of such digital artifacts. The exhibition took place at the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens in March 2018 and was part of the larger festival Shadow Libraries: UbuWeb in Athens, an event to introduce the online archive UbuWeb to the Greek audience and discuss related cultural, ethical, technical, and legal issues. This text takes the event – and the exhibition in particular – as a starting point for a closer look at UbuWeb and the role an artistic approach can play in building cultural memory within the neoliberal knowledge economy.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3908391

Berlin, 2019-01-01

https://zenodo.org/record/3908391#.YEDKZtwxlaQ

+ ID: 562159 + Reihentitel: Edition Angewandte

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AccessDate: 2021-03-04T12:43:29Z
BookTitle: originalcopy – Post-Digital Strategies of Appropriation
DateAdded: 2021-03-04T12:43:29Z
DateModified: 2021-07-22T13:52:23Z
ISBN: 978-3-11-063215-6
Key: V2MH9J7V
Language: eng
LibraryCatalog: Zenodo
Pages: 338 - 345
Publisher: De Gruyter
Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/legalcode
ShortTitle: The Surplus of Copying

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