Media arts heritage

Memory, heritage, digital, art, history quoted randomly… A bilingual (english-français) summit was held by DOCAM in Montréal (CA) in March 2010.

The DOCAM Research Alliance ?

For more than 50 years, the use and integration of technology in art practices has greatly changed the cultural landscape and has prompted us to review and adapt our conservation and documentation methods. The work and results of DOCAM demonstrate that the preservation of media art requires that its particular characteristics be taken into account. The mission of the DOCAM Research Alliance has been to identify and implement five research axes and propose tools, guides and methods that contribute to the preservation of the media arts heritage. The axes are conservation, documentation, cataloguing, history of technologies and terminology.

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The Summit in video, in addition to the program and abstracts ?

– History of technologies and pedagogical resources
– Custom Machines and Conservation Studies
– Les enjeux des enseignements sur la documentation et la conservation des arts médiatiques : bilan du séminaire DOCAM
– History of technologies in museum curatorial practice
– The DOCAM Cataloguing Guide for New Media Collections
– The DOCAM Glossaurus
– The DOCAM Documentary Model
– Towards a Simulative Philology
– Metadata case study for the implementation of an open access repository of self-archived media arts documentation
– Raconter l’archive autour d’une exposition
– Online documentary collections and resources for recorded audience experience
– Taxonomies, documentary collections and replay archives: The documentation and research of interactive artworks at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute Media.Art.Research
– Crowdsourcing Preservation: The Variable Media Questionnaire 3.0
– DOCAM Best Practice Guide : Some tools and principles specific to the preservation and conservation of time-based media artworks
– Virtualizing Agent Ruby: Collecting Web Art
– Media Conservation at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
– Art and Food Unlimited? Conservation et présentation d’œuvres d’art éphémères qui contiennent des produits alimentaires
– Between organic media and technology. Unstable materials and contemporary conservation
– Staging Media Art Installations
– La préservation des équipements obsolètes dans les installations vidéo et à composantes informatiques
– “Don’t believe I am an Amazon”: The Preservation of Video Installations based on Performance Art
– Documenting Digital Art in Small Galleries: The Approach of the InterPARES 3 Project
– Is it possible to change the way we will remember it? A journey between ethical concerns and practical strategies of preservation
– Performing Technology: the challenges of documenting interactive artworks
– Synchoros ou l’œuvre-instrument
– Closing remarks

& :
– Compte-rendu du symposium « L’histoire contemporaine à l’ère digitale » , Université du Luxembourg, Octobre 2009 (Patrick Peccatte).
– De l’Archivage olympique au sujet du consortium international IPC, l’Internet Preservation Consortium (Jean-Marc Francony).
– Digital Art Memory | Digital ethnography | IT art | Art video | Woman in (art) video | Timed monography about the Internet | Europeana | CréArte (WebOL).