Digital heritage research and investigation of networked softwarebased art​/Web

Organisation/Company Libera Università di Bolzano Research Field Arts Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Leading Researcher (R4) First Stage Researcher (R1) Established Researcher (R3) Final date to receive applications 13 Mar 2026 - 12:00 (UTC) Country Italy Type of Contract Other Job Status Other Offer Starting Date 1 Jan 1970 Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure?

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• Embodies or builds a bridge to digital media conservation and preservation efforts of the technical staff in museums
• Develops a vision from a technical standpoint, for a sustainable interdisciplinary research lab dedicated to researching born-digital art. The tecnologo
  * a helps institutionalising the lab with digital infrastructure (database etc.), supporting grant applications etc.
• He
  * she works in software engineering (full stack developer, specialist in code forensics and network analysis) and deals with hardware tinkering as well as with net art, idiosyncratic vernacular coding, artistic hacking.
• He
  * she supports the research groups which investigate networked software-based art online (1990s-today / Web 1.0 to 3.0) from various perspectives.
• Part of that analysis is code and runtime analysis, reconstruction/restoration, reverse engineering, emulation etc. for analytic purposes.
• The technologist will also have to interface with works written in deprecated program languages/protocols.
• He
  * she will also have to formulate manuals or technical assistance programs for others to use.
• Finally, the tecnologo
  * a will need to develop a common ground with the technology-affine humanistic/artistic research(ers).