Digital preservation of modern cultural projects with new media: the case of the project Ηuman Τraces

This thesis examines the use of smart devices and their applications as an alternative means of documentation of new media installation artworks. The main hypothesis of the research is that the use of Mobile Augmented Reality technologies as main component of conceptual and interactive experience design, allows the user to activate a digital hyperplane in real time and space. In this way it becomes possible to “transmit” the experience of installation artworks in the locality in which they were created. The thesis addresses the issue in the broader context of posthumanism and studies digital preservation of works of art which by using new media, explore the idea of the human being in an environment dominated by technology. The proposed model of documentation is tested through the study of the posthumanistic new media installation artwork "Human Traces" and the creation and use of a pilot Mobile Augmented Reality application as a posthumanistic tool for its documentation.