
02/15/2015
Ding an sich: Net.art Conservation and the “Thingness of the Thing” — Magazine — Walker Art Center
Check out this article by Richard Rinehart for the Walker Art Center, resonating with the themes of our current issue, "Object Lesson." Rinehart discusses the conservation Piotr Szyhalski's 'Ding an sich' (1997), a work of Net.art now relaunched as an iPad app.
When Steve Dietz and the Walker Art Center asked me to write about the re-launch of the 1997 web-based artwork Ding an sich, one of the reasons humorously offered for my selection was that I was alive at the time of the original commission. I had a chuckle, but it seems entirely appropriate to measu…