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ETHICS AND PRACTICES OF MEDIA ART CONSERVATION, A WORK-IN-PROGRESS (VERSION 0.5) Part 2

Author: Gaby Wijers, Netherlands Media Art Institute, August 2010.

As the Obsolete Equipment project, this essay on changes and challenges facing the conservation of media art – and more specifically, obsolete equipment – is a work in progress. This preliminary version, written in August 2010, is comparable to the first phase of the project, which was dedicated to the preservation of video-based art. The second version, which will be written in August 2011, will, like the second phase of the project, also take computer-based art into consideration.
This essay is divided in three sections. After an introduction, the first section focuses on ethical issues relating to the preservation of media art, while the second section provides further insights into our practical approach to realising our case studies on video-based artworks in public collections in the Netherlands and Flanders.

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Guidelines for the preservation of analogue videotapes

Author: Ramon Coelho, Dutch Institute for Media Art / Montevideo – Time Based Arts

With the aim of preserving the video signal (meaning the information that is stored on the tapes), it is recommended not to wait too long with the transfer of the content of the videotapes …

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Intellectuele eigendomsrechten in het kader van de online ontsluiting van cultureel erfgoed.

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Strategies for the transfer and preservation of audio carriers

Author: Johan Favoreel, VRT Music Archive

“Keep your original carriers”, is a rather peculiar slogan for someone who is occupied with the migration of ‘threatened species’ to a digital domain on a daily basis …

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THE MANAGEMENT OF EQUIPMENT IN VIDEO INSTALLATIONS

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