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"Assembling the Archival Document: A Case Study of David Rokeby’s Seen", Dina Vescio

This paper critically examines the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts’ archival document for David Rokeby’s Seen (2002) in order to justify “that collecting and archiving can be the beginning, rather than at the end for the critical life of an artwork,” as argued by Graham Beryl in his book Redefining Digital Art (2007). It provides a theoretical analysis based on the document and factual evidence pertaining specifically to Seen.

 

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Dina Vescio is a Master’s candidate in the Department of Art History at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec. Her current research uses third-wave feminism to explore the webcam-based media artworks of Canadian women artists and to discuss the politics of Internet spectatorship and gendered binaries in the context of media art histories.