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Thesis Info
- LABS ID
- 00900
- Thesis Title
- Software- and Data-based art conservation from the artist studio practice: Engineering approaches to documentation as a tool for artwork definition and conservation.
- Author
- Diego Mellado Martínez
- E-mail
- diego AT helpmeimfamous.com
- 2nd Author
- 3rd Author
- Degree
- Master in Arts
- Year
- 2019
- Number of Pages
- 178
- University
- Danube University Krems
- Thesis Supervisor
- Patricia Falcao
- Supervisor e-mail
- Patricia.Falcao AT tate.org.uk
- Other Supervisor(s)
- Language(s) of Thesis
- English
- Department / Discipline
- Image Science
- Copyright Ownership
- Languages Familiar to Author
- English, Spanish
- URL where full thesis can be found
- www.academia.edu/42488179/Software-_and_Data-based_art_conservation_from_the_artist_studio_practice_Engineering_approaches_to_documentation_as_a_tool_for_artwork_definition_and_conservation
- Keywords
- Software-based art conservation, data-based art conservation, Software-based art documentation, data-based art documentation, artist’s studio practice
- Abstract: 200-500 words
- This master thesis presents the conservation strategies developed and adopted
from inside the artist studio, in this case Daniel Canogar’s studio for his softwarebased,
data driven artworks. This thesis tries to show how the artist is trying to set a
framework for the future conservation and restoration of his works, considering what
are, from his point of view, the characteristics that define the artwork.
In order to validate or to questions these strategies, they are introduced in the
context of software-based art conservation. Software-based art, time-based media
art and contemporary art conservation criteria are compared to traditional -e.g.,
authenticity, minimum intervention, reversibility and artist intention.
Using several case studies on different artist’s works, the documentation strategies
inside the Canogar’s studio are presented and questioned. These strategies –
description of the artworks as systems, self-documentation mode and its uses and
the manual as a source of documentation– take into consideration engineering
approaches to description and documentation of the artworks.