Dear List,
February Theme of the Month: Conserving New Media Art
The issues for conserving new media art have begun to be thoroughly
address by projects and publications* including the Variable Media
Project, and V2's Capturing Unstable Media. What is the current state
of the art of conserving new media, and how is it dealing with newer
technologies such as mobile or locative media?
* Depocas, Alain, and Jon Ippolito, Caitlin Jones (eds.) (2003)
Permanence Through Change: The Variable Media Approach. New York:
Guggenheim Museum. Also available from URL:
<http://www.variablemedia.net/e/preserving/html/var_pub_index.html>.
Invited Respondents:
Alain Depocas is Director of the Centre for Research and Documentation
(CR+D) of The Daniel Langlois Foundation. In this capacity, he is in
charge of a documentary collection covering the history, works and
practices associated with the media, electronic and digital arts.
<http://www.fondation-langlois.org>
<http://www.horizonzero.ca/textsite/ghost.php?tlang=0&is=18&file=7>
Sandra Fauconnier works as a media archivist for V2_ in Rotterdam (NL).
Her research interests include metadata and ontologies for media art,
copyright, social software, and capturing and preserving electronic
art. http://archive.v2.nl/ http://www.v2.nl/Projects/capturing/
Tina Fiske, History of Art Department, University of Glasgow.
Oliver Grau, Database of Virtual Art, Humboldt University, Berlin.
Francis Hwang is a writer, artist, and software engineer. Since 2002,
he has been Director of Technology at Rhizome.org.
Caitlin Jones holds a combined research position in both the Curatorial
and Conservation departments at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. With
a background in Art History and Archival Studies she originally worked
in conjunction with the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science,
and Technology as the Langlois Fellow for Variable Media Preservation.
Pip Laurenson, researcher.
Kevin McGarry is Content Coordinator of Rhizome.org, a writer and artist
living in New York.
Peter Ride, CARTE Centre for Arts Research Technology and Education,
University of Westminster.
Richard Rinehart is an artist, Director of Digital Media at the
Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, and coordinates the
NEA-funded "Archiving the Avant-Garde: Preserving Digital / Media Art"
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/ciao/avant_garde.html.
Jill Sterrett, Director of Collections and Conservation, San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art. Collaborated recently with Tate, MoMA, and the
New Art Trust to create a preservation tool for the care of time-based
media
<http://www.tate.org.uk/research/tateresearch/majorprojects/
mediamatters>
Keith Whittle is Online Projects/Media Co-ordinator at Film and Video
Umbrella, a leading agency for the commissioning and production of
artists'
film and video and new media work. In April 2005 he will take up a
Research Fellowship post at the University of Sunderland.
Alena Williams is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Art History
and Archaeology at Columbia University. From 2001-2003, she was the
ArtBase Coordinator at Rhizome.org.
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Beryl Graham, Senior Research Fellow, New Media Art
School of Arts, Design, Media and Culture, University of Sunderland
Tel: +44 191 515 2896 [log in to unmask]
CRUMB web resource for new media art curators
http://www.crumbweb.org
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