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event (GAMA panel discussion | Ars Electronica 2011)

GAMA e.V. - The Gateway to Archives of Media Art invites people to join them in their second panel discussion “Archiving Media Art-Politics and Strategies II: The Future of Media Art” at the Ars Electronica 2011.

Worldwide, small and medium sized art centres have supported experiments in new media, provided access to new technologies and exhibited and distributed media-based art. As a result many have considerable collections of videotapes, media artworks, documentation and ephemera; collections that tell a far more complete history than could ever be told by the few select pieces held in major institutions. Unfortunately, most of these independent institutions and collections exist under a constant threat of deterioration, obsolescence, inaccessibility and disrupted funding streams. How can these media artworks be carried into the future? What concepts are available to warrant future media art archiving?

Participants
- Andreas Spiegl (Akademie der Künste Wien, AT),
- Olof van Winden (Director of NIMk, NL)
- Robert Sakrowski (art historian and curator in the field of Net--‐based art, DE)
More participants yet to be confirmed

Date and Place
4th September, 2011
Ars Electronica, Linz (Austria)
18:00 – 20:00
Seminar room at the Ars Electronica Center

This panel discussion is the second round table event organized by GAMA e.V. following the first panel and the launch of the GAMA site at the Ars Electronica 2009.