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)