The document summarizes the creation of "The CD-ROM Cabinet", a project to document and preserve CD-ROM artworks from the 1990s and early 2000s. It describes collecting 82 CD-ROM artworks over 6 months, documenting them through disk images, photos, and video. It notes efforts to make some works accessible online and a hackathon to experiment with obsolete formats. It recommends a distributed and sustainable approach to ongoing documentation and accessibility of the artworks.
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The CD-ROM Cabinet: the first six months
1. The CD-ROM Cabinet:
the first six months
Sandra Fauconnier
fokky@fauconnier.nl
Twitter @sanseveria
Media Art Histories 2013: RENEW
October 11, 2013, Riga, Latvia
http://www.fauconnier.nl/fokky/cd-rom-cabinet
4. The CD-ROM Cabinet?
Wikipedia:
A cabinet of curiosities was an
encyclopedic collection in Renaissance
Europe of types of objects whose
categorical boundaries were yet to be
defined. They were also known by various
names such as Cabinet of Wonder, and in
German Kunstkammer (âart roomâ) or
Wunderkammer (âwonder-roomâ).
Thank you, Hicham Khalidi !
Cabinet, anonymous, ca. 1660-1670, collection Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam
http://hdl.handle.net/10934/RM0001.COLLECT.356616
Ole Wormâs cabinet of curiosities, from Museum Wormianum,
1655.
5. Who?
⢠Sandra Fauconnier â research, emulation,
imaging, documentation
⢠Annet Dekker â research, organisation,
publication
⢠Ben Fino-Radin â CD-ROM hackathon and
general feedback
⢠Hicham Khalidi â the name ď
⢠Annette Wolfsberger, Gisela Domschke,
Arie Altena, Gaby Wijers, Aram Bartholl,
Robert Sakrowski â support and feedback
6. How ? Quick & Dirty
⢠6 months, 1 day/week
⢠Low-hanging fruit
⢠Mainly Dutch focus
⢠Hands on âHouse, Yard & Kitchen
Approachâ
⢠Focus on what works
⢠Use of existing tools and
platforms
⢠Balance between easy & useful
8. Inventory: 82 art CD-ROMs in our surroundings (mainly NIMk, V2_, private collections)âŚ
⌠dating from 1994 to 2001.
9. Other sourcesâŚ
Contact Zones: The Art of CD-ROM
Exhibition at Cornell University
March-April 1999
Curated by Tim Murray
https://contactzones.cit.cornell.edu/
Burning the Interface
Exhibition at the Museum of
Contemporary Art, Sydney,
Australia
March-July 1996
Curated by Mike Leggett
http://legart.drupalgardens.com/pro
10. A few are ported to the web:
George Legrady
An Anecdoted Archive from the Cold War
CD-ROM 1997, ported to the web by the
Daniel Langlois Foundation 2005
http://www.fondation-langlois.org/legrady/
Zoe Beloff
Beyond
CD-ROM 1997, ported to the web by the
artist (?) 2009
http://www.zoebeloff.com/beyond/
11. CD-ROM hackathon, Van Abbemuseum
Eindhoven, 12-13 December 2012
Led by Ben Fino-Radin
(then Digital Conservator at Rhizome)
http://www.baltanlaboratories.org/born
digital/cd-rom-hackathon/
http://www.baltanlaboratories.org/born
digital/reports-images-video-and-
texts/
12. 2012 Revival
Aram Bartholl & Robert Sakrowski:
DVD Dead Drop #2: INSERT DISC
22 Sept â 27 Oct 2012
Museum of Moving Image NYC
20. Work To Do stillâŚ
⢠Voyager CD-ROMs -> US organisation to tackle
this?
⢠artintact series -> ZKM to tackle this?
⢠Many key pieces not yet covered: antirom,
audiorom, the Blam! series⌠-> letâs make
this a distributed effort?
⢠Difficult CD-ROMs were skipped (multi-disc,
Quicktime, broken copies)
⢠Inventory not complete
⢠Art historical overview is due (predecessor
to ebooks, apps, interactive storytelling;
the broader context of âintimateâ pieces for
common personal computing devices)
21. I would recommendâŚ
⢠Sustainability and a
distributed approach â donât
put it in our own silos, but
use existing platforms that
(hopefully) will last a while.
⢠First step: make it (easily)
accessible (=downloadable) and
findable by âciviliansâ
⢠Simple, readable documentation
CD-ROMs only, no DVDs Artworks made specifically for this medium 1994-2001 approximately Works are mostly self-contained interactive pieces, made for viewing on a personal computer Game-like pieces, anti-interfaces, interactive narration; a lot of experimentation with interaction patterns and paradigms Packaging was often interesting; some came as complements to books National âscenesâ?