Abstract
dATAPLOT presents a series of image+text pairs from a museum exhibition about a latent civilization discovered by artists and archivists. Each museum relic under glass is carefully represented as tokenized digital art files and cryptographically bound to a unique keypair also included as hardcopies encased in envelopes meant for the gallery wall. The exhibit invites users to not only participate with but also embody and possess artifacts from this shared hallucination and artificial aesthetic. The goal of this art practice is to develop techniques for creating plain text hypermedia objects as contemporary cultural relics, aspiring to a level of significance and permanence comparable to that of ancient materiality. Perhaps this is one step towards the convergence of art object and document. Emerging from an exploration of latent spaces, these digital creations exemplify a modern approach to preserving and reimagining a shared cultural heritage. The dATAPLOT project maps and articulates some of these aesthetic boundaries within the essence of humanistic inquiry, reflecting the evolving narratives of our collective history. A technical aim of dATAPLOT is to produce a bespoke network of durable, conceptual museum objects.
Presenters
Matthew ButlerResearch Manager, Digital Scholarship & Publishing Studio, University of Iowa, Iowa, United States
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Cultural Relics, Ancient Materiality, Art, Documentation, Hypermedia, Latent Spaces
