Translations:Preserveren van digitale kunst: uitdagingen en oplossingen uit de praktijk/9/en

Claudia Roeck is researching how the experiential value of the Geert Mul’s artwork ‘Shan Shui’ can best be preserved. Geert created this artwork in 2013, and adapted the program code for a large exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam (5 November 2016 – 12 February 2017). ‘Shan Shui’ is an interactive video projection that displays digitised Chinese landscape paintings on a display about 9 metres wide and 3 metres high. Every time a visitor enters the exhibition space, a movement sensor triggers a cascade of new paintings being displayed, which gradually eclipse the previous paintings. The video is influenced by how the visitor moves around the space. To be able to reproduce this work, you need a set-up of projectors, speakers, a movement sensor, a computer with customised software and an exhibition space – the technology and content are closely intertwined.