without addresses (1997/2024)
· by Joachim Blank and @khjeron
Friday, 25 October 2024 at 6 pm
public presentation
at our NEW /rosa project space
Heidelberger Str. 28
12059 Berlin Neukölln
Welcome!
We would like to invite you to the presentation of the results and to view the simulation of the work without addresses, which is once again online after almost 30 years. In a group tour, the reconstruction team together with the artists will present the different aspects of the work as well as the reconstruction process.
Together with Joachim Blank and Karl Heinz Jeron, the Zentrum für Netzkunst has undertaken an extensive reconstruction project this year. The canonical work without addresses by the Berlin artist duo was developed and produced for documenta X in 1997.
https://netzkunst.berlin/wa
For several months, users were able to generate new websites, similar to what we know today from generative AI. At the end of the exhibition, the work was removed from the Internet and has not been available since.
The reconstruction team collected extensive documentation of the work and its development and compiled it in a wiki. The resulting Netart Repository should enable a detailed examination of the work as well as further conservation efforts in the future. At the same time, a simulation of without addresses was realised in cooperation with the artists, which makes it possible to view the work in a contemporary browser. By focusing on the mediation of the work, visitors can experience the original 'feel' of the work in order to better understand the functionality and conceptual framework of the original documenta version.
https://netart.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Netart_repository
Reconstruction team: Joachim Blank, Tereza Havlíková, Karl Heinz Jeron, @sakrowski, Marija Stupar; Wikibase consulting: @lozross
The project was funded by Digis - Förderprogramm zur Digitalisierung von Kulturgut des Landes Berlin.
https://netzkunst.berlin