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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
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
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.