Artist Talk - Digital Arts: Clarisse Bardiot
(an)notation to document
and preserve digital performances
Analysis of Hakanai by Adrien M and Claire B with MemoRekall.
How can the legacy of digital performances be transmitted? The answer is unanimous: by documenting,
either by collecting traces and producing specific documents. Although the answer is simple, implementation proves to be much
trickier: What digital traces should be collected to transmit a show and make it possible to replay it at different intervals
(from a few days to decades)? With what methodologies and instruments? These questions are based on a common point: the creation
of conditions that guarantee repetition, that ensure that the works can be transmitted. I will examine in turn two models
for the preservation of the performing arts, notation and annotation, and present MemoRekall, a web app which combines both
to document and preserve digital performances.
Clarisse Bardiot is a Professor
at Université Rennes 2 in the history of contemporary theatre and digital humanities. Her research focuses on performing arts
and digital humanities, the history, and aesthetics of digital performance, the relationship between art, science, and technology,
the preservation of digital works, and experimental publishing. With a team of developers, she designed digital environments
for performing arts preservation and documentation: a software prototype, Rekall, and a web app, MemoRekall. She is the author
of Performing Arts and Digital Humanities. From Traces to Data (Wiley / Iste, 2021). www.clarissebardiot.infowww.memorekall.com 
