[spectre] (fwd) Monitoring Media Art Preservation 2008-1

[Andreas Broeckmann]

Subject: Monitoring Media Art Preservation 2008-1
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:01:55 +0100
From: Netherlands Media Art Institute <preservation at nimk.nl>


Since January 2005 the Netherlands Institute for 
Media Art (NIMk)publishes new media art 
preservation research, events, publications and 
presentations as an online newsletter. As a 
tribute to Video Art e-monitor this online 
newsletter is called Monitoring Media Art 
Preservation. Monitoring Media Art Preservation 
offers information and news about ongoing 
research, presentations and publications dealing 
with video- and media art preservation 4 times a 
year. The newsletter is in English only.

Subscribe/ Unsubscribe <mailto:preservation at nimk.nl>preservation at nimk.nl
Editor: Gaby Wijers <mailto:gaby at nimk.nl>gaby at nimk.nl


TO TRANSFER OR TO TRANS FROM

The Netherlands Media Art Institute a series of 
presentations and discussions on the theme 
emulation of media art installations began 18 
December 2007. For the next 2 years emulation, re 
enactment and virtualisation of media art will be 
discussed every 4 months based on a series of 
case studies. Gaby Wijers invites researchers and 
artists to submit cases / projects related to the 
NIMk collection for presentations from a 
conservation perspective. The next presentation 
13 May 2008. The presentations will be streamed 
live streamed. The results will be published.

<mailto:gaby at nimk.nl> gaby at nimk.nl


SYMPOSIUM ACTIVEARCHIVE
25 and 26 April 2008, Luzern

In the scope of the exhibition “Schweizer 
Videokunst der 70er und 80er Jahre. Eine 
Rekonstruktion" in the Kunstmuseum Luzern, 
ActiveArchive will present their art 
technological research. The Symposium will focus 
on mediation and discussing ActiveArchives 
approach; the authentic form of presentation with 
authentic apparatus, versus the migration and 
emulation of media art works. Case studies from 
the exhibition next to a lab setting were 
different versions of the art work are presented 
next to each other, will be present. Questions 
concerning how to document video installations 
and boundaries of the re installation of 
historical equipment will be discussed. The 
Symposium will be in German language only.

<http://www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch>www.kunstmuseumluzern.ch


COMPENDIUM OF IMAGE PERTURBATIONS IN ANALOGUE VIDEO

The TAPE project has issued an overview of audio 
and video carriers by Dietrich Schüller of the 
Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences. 
The text systematically describes recording 
principles, storage and handling, maintenance of 
equipment, format and equipment obsolescence, for 
each type of carrier, and includes a list of 
recommended reading. It provides a solid, 
non-technical introduction for all those 
professionally managing sound and video 
collections. pdf The overview is a full text 
version of presentations used in TAPE workshops 
by Dietrich Schüller and Albrecht Haefner. It is 
available at

<http://www.tape-online.net/docs/audio_and_video_carriers.pdf>http://www.tape-online.net/docs/audio_and_video_carriers.pdf



MATERIALISED FLEETINGNESS CONSERVATION AND 
RE-ENACTMENT OF NEW MEDIA ART INSTALLATIONS

imai - inter media art institute initiated the 
research-project "Materialised Fleetingness. 
Conservation and Re-enactment of New Media Art 
Installations". The project aims to deliver 
guidelines for the conservation of New Media Art 
installations that will be interesting for art 
historians, curators, conservators/restorers and 
collectors. The results will be presented at a 
conference and in a publication.

Further information: <http://www.imaionline.de>www.imaionline.de


THE FUTURE HISTORIES OF THE MOVING IMAGE RESEARCH NETWORK

With the advent of digital technology the nature 
of moving image production, distribution and 
exhibition has changed dramatically. This 
technology is also changing the way in which we 
analyse and document current and historical 
moving image practices, as there has been a 
recent proliferation of digital archive and 
database projects relating to film, video and 
television practices. The Future Histories of the 
Moving Image Research Network has been set up to 
examine the changing ways in which we are 
circulating and interrogating all areas of our 
moving image culture and to address the issues of 
sustainability and historiography arising from 
the growing number of moving image arts database 
and digitised collection projects in the UK. The 
project is led by Julia Knight (University of 
Sunderland) in collaboration with the British 
Artists' Film and Video Study Collection 
(University of the Arts London) and REWIND: 
Artists' Video in the 1970s & 1980s (Dundee 
University). Information regarding the conference 
Future Histories of the Moving Image Conference : 
An international conference held at the 
University of Sunderland 16-18 November 2007 is 
available on the conference blog.

Further details of the conference proceedings and 
results on 
<http://www.futurehistories.net/>http://www.futurehistories.net/


GAMA
GAMA: A central online portal to Media Art in Europe

Gateway to Archives of Media Art approved by EC 
eContentplus programme GAMAs objective is to 
establish a professionally coordinated central 
online access to Europe's most important digital 
archives and libraries regarding media art and 
thus significantly enhance not only access but 
above all exploitation of the material gathered 
by expert institutions. The challenge is met by a 
well balanced team of art historians and 
theorists to safeguard the integrity of the 
approach to the artworks, Cultural agents provide 
not only content but above all their yearlong 
expertise at the interface between artists, 
collectors, curators and the interested public. 
Technological research and IT experts will 
implement state-of-the-art technology to ensure 
both a high level of user-friendliness and a 
sophisticated query performance.

<http://www.gama-gateway.eu>http://www.gama-gateway.eu/


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