Dragan Espenschied: Archiving as Resistance

GUEST

Dragan Espenschied (he/him) is a net artist, musician, and digital art conservator. He has been leading Rhizome's Digital Preservation Program since 2014. Espenschied’s activities as a conservator are mostly focused on infrastructure and field-wide action concerning web archiving, emulation, and linked open data.

HOST

Severin Matusek is a cultural theorist and founder of co—matter, a creative studio exploring the cultural and societal impact of new technologies.

IDEAS AND PEOPLE IN CONTEXT

• Rhizome champions born-digital art and culture through commissions, exhibitions, scholarships, and digital preservation. https://rhizome.org/about/
• Digital Folklore (2010) contains essays and projects investigating many different facets of the web, and the birth of its ‘pop culture’. https://digitalfolklore.org/
• Emulation-as-a-Service, is a web-based platform originally developed by the bwFLA team at the University of Freiburg. https://eaasi.gitlab.io/program_docs/intro-emulation-workshop/06-eaasi/index.html
• AppArt exhibitions were held at ZKM between 2011 and 2017, for the best artistic developments in the field of applications for smartphones and tablets since. https://zkm.de/en/project/appartaward

CREDITS

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Editorial Team (in alphabetical order): Carina Dala, Kesia Inkersole, Severin Matusek, Elisabeth Noever-Ginthör, Theresa Reimann-Dubbers, Alice Smith, Heinz Wolf

Theme Music by Hell Mutang.