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In 2024 Zentrum für Netzkunst has applied for their first full scale reconstruction project. Even though in the past the initative has aquired project budget to pay artists to reconstruct their work, this was the first time a conceptual approach and a methodology was developed for a reconstruction project. The reconstruction project was founded by [https://www.digis-berlin.de/foerderprogramm/ Digis "Förderprogramm zur Digitalisierung von Kulturgut des Landes Berlin"] as the very first project on digital-born artwork. | In 2024 Zentrum für Netzkunst has applied for their first full scale reconstruction project. Even though in the past the initative has aquired project budget to pay artists to reconstruct their work, this was the first time a conceptual approach and a methodology was developed for a reconstruction project. The reconstruction project was founded by [https://www.digis-berlin.de/foerderprogramm/ Digis "Förderprogramm zur Digitalisierung von Kulturgut des Landes Berlin"] as the very first project on digital-born artwork. | ||
==== Reconstruction | ==== Reconstruction Aproach ==== | ||
''Without addresses'', as many other net art pieces, is bound to the specific, historical conditions of the Internet and the computer - the so-called hardware and software context at the time of its creation. In ''without addresses'' variant 1 the work used Alta Vista search engine to search online and generate new html pages. The Alta Vista search engine was shut down in 2013 and can be no longer used for the reconstruction. | |||
It would be possible to programme a new script using contemporary search engine and recreate the generative function. However, the internet changed so much since the mid 90s, that the aesthetics of the pages would be completely different. Back then the search only returned a few results. Today we could expect exponential amount of results which would not be possible to include all the inte generated pages. So even though recoding the work for a contemporary search engine would preserve best the original conceptual framework it would completely change the feel and the aesthetics of the work. It would also carry on the preservation problem onto the future, since we can't ensure that the longetivity of this external service. | |||
Since the historical Internet environment in which the work was created no longer exists, it cannot be fully reconstructed. | |||
After a thorough consultation with the two artists, the reconstruciton team decided to design and programme a static simulation of the work as a method of reconstruction. | |||
=== Data inventory assessment=== | === Data inventory assessment=== | ||