Interview with Peter Weibel
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Discusses problems keeping internet and time-based art marginal: lack of collectors, auctions and market value, and museums struggling to conserve works across dozens of video formats. Gives concrete examples — a live camera in Halifax streaming a 1 m² patch of ocean to a gallery, an Instagram projection that updates every few seconds, an artist producing thousands of iPhone drawings daily, and a four-hour dance piece “we dance the internet” — and warns only 7–10% of cultural output survives, urging art schools to teach engineering skills for preservation.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:41Internet art in art
- 2:06Art market challenges
- 3:34Technical resistance
- 5:20Media art conservation
- 7:28Digitalization as rescue
- 9:38Net activism
- 11:50Digital synesthesia
- 13:16Data art limits
- 14:37Market vs innovation
- 16:00Curating internet art
- 17:48Innovator's dilemma
- 18:31Art education reform
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