WED 11 SEP, 4—5.30pm
Digital and environmentally conscious: sustainability and preservation issues in digital art
in cooperation with Gallery Climate Coalition
Today, every single search query, every streamed video and every type of cloud computing, executed billions of times, is responsible for ever-increasing global demand for energy and thus also for increasing CO₂ emissions. How is digital art and all parties involved dealing with this challenge? How can artists, collections, museums, and galleries find a sustainable approach in the production, display, and preservation of digital artworks? The GCC Berlin/Germany hosted panel at Berlin Art Week 2024 will delve into dialog surrounding digital art, weighing the potential benefits of the digital presentation of artworks against their hidden complications and impacts. Andreas Greiner, artist and professor of media art at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel, pulls from his own experience traversing the often surprising impacts and considerations when creating and presenting digital art to elucidate and open up points of discussion for the panelists.
A conversation with Diane Drubay (Founder We Are Museums and Blueshift), Dr. Anna Schäffler (Art historian and preservation specialist), Clara Runge (Curator ZKM Karlsruhe), Dr. Theresa Schubert (Independent artist and researcher), Andreas Greiner (Artist and professor of media art at the Muthesius University of Fine Arts and Design in Kiel)
Moderation: Kim Krazcon (Conservator of modern materials and contemporary art, sustainability specialist (independent / Ki Culture / GCC Berlin))
More: https://berlinartweek.de/en/baw-garten/