Emma Dickson is a Computer Scientist, Time Based Media Technician and Artist. They’ve worked directly with artists, conservation firms and museums in order to document, repair and migrate complicated new media art. Their net art and new media sculptures explore identity, community, and longing through technology. Their fascination and respect for the corporeal body of technology infuses both their artistic and professional practice.
Vita
- Academic and Technical Research at Coded Secrets: Artistic Interventions Hidden in the Digital Fabric research group at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.
- Certificate of Digital Archiving and Preservation (2021). The Media Arts Institute of Krems
- Sociology & Computer Science. New York University (New York, USA)
Publications
Articles
- Restoring Shulea Cheang’s Brandon
- Restoring Mark Napier’s net.flag
Talks
- Guggenheim x NYU – Restoring Collection of Shu Lea Cheang’s Brandon
- Brandon (1998–99) by Shu Lea Cheang. A video navigation of the restored web artwork
Podcasts
- Art and Obsolescence Interview with me
- Art and Obsolescence Interview with Shulea Cheang
Projects
- Ten Thousand Cents
- I was subcontracted by Small Data Industries and the Cooper Hewitt to restore Aaron Koblin and Takashi Kawashima.’s piece 10,000 Cents (2008)
- Tall Ships
- Code Analysis/Documenation and Restoration of Gary Hill’s Tall Ships (1992) for Small Data Industries
- EXPAND
- Worked directly with Shulea cheang to migrate EXPAND (2001).
- Code Analysis & Documentation for The Cooper Hewitt
- I was subcontracted by Small Data Industries to produce seven in depth Treatment Assesments of pieces held by the Cooper Hewitt.
- net.flag
- I was a part of the team that executed the 2019 Restoration of Mark Napier’s net.flag (2001) for the Guggenheim. Visit the restored site here!
- B R A N D O N
- I was a part of the team that executed the 2017 Restoration of Shulea Cheang’s BRANDON (1998-1999) for the Guggenheim.
Research
Tools
- 508 Loop Detected
Workshops
- A Recipe for Analyzing a Computer-based Artwork
Residencies
- Signal Culture Winter ToolMaker 2019
- Satellite 2021 Fellow