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Het geheugen van de kunstenaar - Symposium over levende kunstenaarsarchieven in netwerkverband
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Long live media art... Help!
Workshop with David Claerbout, Johannes Gfeller (AktiveArchive), Dara Meyers-Kingsley (IMAP) & Giel Vandecaveye (S.M.A.K.)
Monday May 25 2009
S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent
How do I find my way in the conservation of media arts? How can I catalogue a video work to facilitate its preservation? Which documentation models are available for video- and computer-based installations? Which choices can be made when the original display and playback equipment of a work of art becomes obsolete? Which role can be played by the artist him/herself in the preservation of his/her work?
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Media Matters
Seminar: Media Matters
October 16, 2007
Argos, Brussels
Blurred and wavering images on worn out videotapes, misty sounds on weathered audio cassettes, scorched nitrate film, irreparable damaged hard disks: more and more media are becoming the victim of technological aging and cultural oblivion. Also in the arts sector the challenge of preservation of video and other electronic and digital media has grown to become a fundamental issue, seeping ever faster through all sections of museums, archives and art centers.
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Media, Memory & the Archive
Conference: Media, Memory & the Archive
October 6, 2007
Argos, Brussels
How will future generations look back on the artistic production of the 20th and 21st centuries? Media formats, operating systems, software and hardware, browsers and the internet as we know it today will have evolved beyond recognition, both in shape and in use. What strategies might be used to transpose technology-based works, variable, hybrid and ephemeral by nature, to an unknown and unpredictable future? How can intent, context and experience be recorded and permanently interpreted? The archiving process does not only represent an attempt to preserve certain notions, it also implicates that others will be forgotten. What is relevant for preservation?
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File Formats Audiovisual Heritage
Information meeting: File Formats Audiovisual Heritage
November 16, 2007
Vlaams-Nederlands Huis deBuren, Brussels
The direct cause for this information meeting was a previous meeting held on June 22, 2007 at the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision. This ‘Expert meeting file formats audiovisual heritage’ was organised by Digital Heritage Netherlands, the Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and the Taskforce Audiovisual. A report of this meeting can be found here (only in Dutch).
