Summit on New Media Art Archiving during ISEA2020
School of Digital Arts, Animation and Design, University of Quebec, Montreal

The Summit is organised with the purpose of presenting a roadmap towards the goals of the Liverpool Declaration (1).
This is a co-operative effort of the ISEA, Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH and ADA archives.


PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

9.00-9.30 registration

9.30-10.00
Introductory Keynote
Prof. Dr. Oliver Grau, Department for Image Science, Donau-Universität Krems, Austria: Museum-Network Digital Arts: For a concerted Collection, Documentation and Conservation Strategy

Case Studies (collection / preservation)
10.00-10.15
Adam Lockhart: VR as a Preservation and Simulation Tool for Media Artwork Installations

10.15-10.30
Hava Aldouby: Archiving and Researching Media Art in Israel: Challenges, Innovative Solutions, and Potential International Collaborations

10.30-10.45
Rodrigo Guzman Serrano: A History of the Internet through MoMA’s Exhibition Sites. Web-Archiving Art Content at NYARC

Infrastructures (new strategies & technology or documentation & archiving)
11.00-11.45
Byeongwon Ha: Archiving Interactive Art for Art Practitioners and Theorists

11.45-12.00
Devon Mordell: Preservation Begins at Creation: An Embedded Digital Archivist Within the University of Windsor’s School of Creative Arts

break

13.00-13.15
Vladlena Gromova: A Database Of Interdisciplinary Art In Russia

13.15-13.30
Elisa Ines Arca Jarque: ePPA: Espacio/ Plataforma de preservación audiovisual (ePPA – Space/ Platform for Audiovisual preservation)

13.30-13.45
Scott Rettberg: ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base

International / intercontinental support and project structures
13.45-14.00
Camille Baker: Brief history of STARTS and STARTS related EU policy overview

14.00-14.15
Tadeus Mucelli: Digital Art Festival, Biennial Of Digital Art and Labcult (UFMG/PPGCI)

14.15.14.30
Melanie Swalwell: Archiving Australian Media Arts: Towards a method and a national collection

break

14.45-15.00
Manuela Naveau, Bonnie Mitchell & Wim van der Plas: Short presentations on archives of Ars Electronica, SIGGRAPH Art Show and ISEA

15.00-15.15 Invited speaker (tba)

15.15-16.15 Break Out Sessions: collective preparation for concluding session

16.15-17.30
Oliver Grau, Bonnie Mitchell & Wim van der Plas (moderation):
Conclusions and directions: structured road map and concrete proposals.

17.30 onwards: Informal get together


Free for ISEA2020 participants, others pay the one day symposium fee. Proceedings will be published.

(1) MEDIA ART NEEDS GLOBAL NETWORKED ORGANISATION & SUPPORT – International Declaration, signed by 500 professionals representing the key institutes in the field.
http://www.isea-archives.org/docs/MediaArtHistoryDeclaration.pdf

For more information contact Wim van der Plas at wimisea-web.org