[spectre] THE ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA) FEATURES SCENOCOSME

[Oliver Grau]

THE ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA) FEATURES SCENOCOSME

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The ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA) features the artist duo SCENOCOSME 
(Gregory LASSERRE & Anais MET DEN ANCXT), known for their inimitable 
poetic language of visualization and sonification of interrelations 
between humans and nature. The collective explores (invisible) energy 
flows between living beings and/or between humans and their 
environments by means of technology and make them perceptible for
spectators. Their interactive artworks and choreographic collective 
performances make attendees share extraordinary sensory experiences.

“Lights Contacts” (2010), “Akousmaflore” (2007), “Alsos*”
(2006) or 
“SphèrAléas” (2004) are remarkable immersive environments and 
acousmatic soundscapes reflecting on connectivity and alternative ways
of communication. At the intersection of art and science the artists 
explore sensor technologies and develop complex software transforming 
“natural energy” like static, heat or breath into sound and light 
installations.  


Evelyn TSITAS: “Lights Contacts invites people to touch another to
create 
sound and light according to the intensity of their electrostatic
energy. 
The work perfectly illustrates […] connectivity in the age of
technology.”

Peter WEIBEL: “Technology is nature made by humans. Scenocosme 
makes the man-made voice of nature visible and audible.”  
[Technik ist vom Menschen gemachte Natur. Scenocosme macht 
sichtbar und hörbar, wie die vom Menschen gemachte Stimme der 
Natur klingt.]

Catherine MASON: “Scenocosme have been exploring ‘energetic 
coherence between living beings and their environment’ in their art
for 
the last few years. By contrasting the relationship between the natural

world and the man-made Scenocosme’s art highlights the challenges
facing our planet and our human responses to it”


COLLABORTIVE ARCHIVING OF DIGITAL ART
The large assortment of information on SCENOCOSME and hundreds
 of other leading artists and their artworks were carried out by the 
artists themselves in assistance with members of the ADA community. 
The new ADA web tool allows members to archive artist statements, 
works descriptions, literature, information on exhibitions, high
resolution
images, blueprints, videos etc. Artists and scholars are invited to 
contribute actively to the archive and to work collaboratively on the 
documentation and analysis of digital art. 

EXPANDED DOCUMENTATION FOR THE NEEDS OF DIGITAL ART
Due to the processual, ephemeral, interactive, technology-based and
fundamentally context-dependent character of digital art, it is at
risk
for becoming extinct without an adequate documentation. Therefore, the
ADA is based on an expanded concept of documentation, which takes
account of the specific conditions of digital art. 

THE ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART – PIONEER IN THE FIELD
Since its foundation in 1999, the Archive of Digital Art (former
Database of Virtual Art) has become the most important scholarly
online
archive for media art. In cooperation with established media artists,
researchers, and institutions, it has been documenting the rapidly
evolving world of digital art and its related fields for more than a
decade and contains today a selection of thousands of artworks at the
intersection of art, science, and technology. 

ARTISTS represented, among many others: Rebecca ALLEN, Suzanne 
ANKER, Cory ARCANGEL, Roy ASCOTT, Louis BEC, Maurice BENAYOUN,
Paolo CIRIO, Charlotte DAVIES, FLEISCHMANN & STRAUSS, Masaki 
FUJIHATA, Ken GOLDBERG, Agnes HEGEDÜS, Lynn HERSHMAN LEESON,
Ryoji IKEDA, Eduardo KAC, Ken RINALDO, KNOWBOTIC RESEARCH, 
Lev MANOVICH, George LEGRADY, Golan LEVIN, Rafael 
LOZANO-HEMMER, Joseph NECHVATAL, Michael NAIMARK, David
ROKEBY, Jeffrey SHAW, Julius v. BISMARCK, Paul SERMON, Karl SIMS, 
SOMMERER & MIGNONNEAU, STANZA, Nicole STENGER, THOMSON & 
CRAIGHEAD, Peter WEIBEL, et al.

Advisory board: Christiane PAUL, Roy ASCOTT, Erkki HUHTAMO, Gunalan
NADARAJAN, Martin ROTH, et. al.

ADA team:
Prof. Dr. habil. Oliver GRAU 
Michaela SEISER (Editor, Community Admin)
Sebastian HALLER, Viola RÜHSE, Wendy COONES, Ann-Christin RENN
(Editorial Team)
digitalart.editor at donau-uni.ac.at 
www.digitalartarchive.at