Artivity: Documenting Digital Art Practice

Arguments and interpretations made while researching the arts are based on historical evidence. The technical analysis of artworks and artists' archives supply such evidence with the objective being to provide answers on how and why an artwork was made, i.e. how can artistic practice be described? Identifying such evidence in digital art is difficult due to the lack of the artwork's physical manifestation. Available resources about the artwork often concern long-term digital preservation, e.g., Serexhe (2012), and not the practice. Information on the process and context of the artwork is typically lost. In this paper we present a method for capturing part of this contextual data. We also present an implementation in the form of a software tool called Artivity. We highlight a case study with data by the artist Gino Ballantyne. We discuss the limitations of our approach and the expected use of the tool.

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Athanasios Velios

Sebastian Faubel

Moritz Eberl

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Publication date: July 2017

Publication date (Print): July 2017

Pages: 107-108

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[0001]University of the Arts London

Chelsea College of Arts

16 John Islip Street

London SW1P 4JU

UK

[0002]Semiodesk GmbH

Werner-von-Siemens Str. 6

Building 15K

D-86159 Augsburg

Germany

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/EVA2017.24

SO-VID: 9416f52b-e6eb-4f81-be2e-f42d22dd163f

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Conference name: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2017)

Conference acronym: EVA

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Conference location: London, UK

Conference date: 11 – 13 July 2017

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Electronic Visualisation and the Arts

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[1] J. AlexanderA. CockburnR. Lobb 2008 AppMonitor: A tool for recording user actions in unmodified Windows applications Behavior Research Methods 40 2 413 421

[2] T., H, S. GrozaK. MöllerE. MinackM. JazayeriC. MesnageG. ReifR. Gudjónsdóttir 2007 The NEPOMUK project - on the way to the social semantic desktop Proceedings of I-Semantics’ 07 JUCS 201 211

[3] T. LeboS. SahooD. McGuinness 2013 PROV-O: The PROV Ontology W3C https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/ 17 March 2017

[4] J. H. MorganC.-Y. ChengC. PikeF. E. Ritter 2013 A Design, Tests and Considerations for Improving Keystroke and Mouse Loggers Interacting with Computers 25 3 242 258

[5] B. Serexhe 2012 Preservation of Digital Art: Theory and Practice. The digital art conservation project. Ambra Verlag Vienna

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