THE ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA) FEATURES SCENOCOSME Check it out: www.digitalartarchive.at 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@donau-uni.ac.at www.digitalartarchive.at