Arc-hive: Case Studies and Life as an Object is a two-part publication offering fresh and valuable insights from numerous authors to the challenges of working with biomedia, with special focus on preservation, archiving and digitisation of biomedia practices.
Arc-hive Case Studies
- Introduction – Case Studies (Jurica Mlinarec, Luja Šimunović)
- Digital Semiotics for Biomedia Art (Dalila Honorato)
- Unstill Life: Biomedia Art Archiving in the Ephemeral Permanent Collection (Adam Zaretsky)
- Identifying the Challenges and Solutions for 3D Digitization of Bioart (Aurore Mathys, Nuno Sousa)
- Tomorrow’s Fossils (Judith van der Elst)
- Stones in Boxes – Collecting Fossils from Finland’s North and Beyond (Björn Kröger, Judith Van der Elst, Leena Valkeapää)
- The Internet Hijacked by Big Tech. Platformization in Today’s Hyper-connected World (Efraín Foglia)
- Open arc-Hive (Helen Torres)
Life as an Object
- Life as an Object (Olga Majcen Linn)
- Post-promethean Art (Oron Catts)
- Bioart: An Immersive Perspective (Howard Boland)
- Life in Death and Death in Life (Thomas Feuerstein)
- Only in Transit? Organ Trade? Murder at MoMA? Paradoxes and Obstacles in Maintaining and Staging Biomedia Art (Jens Hauser)
- Outsourcing Care for Life (Ionat Zurr)
- Guidelines for the Unstable: Instructions and Recommendations for Exhibiting Life in Artistic Context (Olga Majcen Linn, Sunčica Ostoić)
- Testimonial and Material Evidence (Ida Hiršenfelder)
- Fragments of an Archivist (Rok Vevar)
- From Videodokument and Videospotting to the DIVA Station (Barbara Borčić)
Publisher: KONTEJNER, Zagreb, 2022
Publication editors: Ena Hodžić, Olga Majcen Linn, Jurica Mlinarec, Luja Šimunović
Design: Andro Giunio
Illustrations for Arc-hive Case Studies chapter: Aldo Urbano Perez
Proofreading: Ivana Bašić, Tihana Bertek, Janja Čulig
“Arc-hive – Life as an Object” consists of the proceedings from a symposium organized by Kersnikova Institute, Ljubljana, from 17th to 18th of February 2022.
Acknowledgements to peer reviewers: Aitana Bellido, Erich Berger, Patrizia Costantin, Regine Debatty, Leonida Kovač, Tatiana Kourochkina, Christian de Lutz, Marta de Menezes, Aleksa Milanović, Angelina Milosavljević, Margherita Pevere, Regine Rapp, Sanja Sekelj, Miodrag Šuvaković, Tereza Teklić, Nataša Teofilović and Karolina Zyniewicz.
Thanks to: Dalila Honorato, Miha Satler, Jurij Krpan, Sandra Sajovic, Chris Cobilis