From Oliver Grau:
DEAR COLLEAGUES,
We are happy to announce the new affiliation with improved and
long term support provided by the department for Cultural Studies
of the Danube University Krems, Austria, which will assure
preservation and growth of the Database of Virtual Art.
D V A
As pioneer in the field, the Database of Virtual Art has been
documenting the rapidly evolving field of digital installation
art since 1999. It is supported by the German Research Foundation
and various other institutions. Our research-oriented, complex
overview of immersive, interactive, telematic and genetic art has
been developed in cooperation with renowned media artists,
researchers and institutions. The database is based on
open-source-technologies and allows individuals to post material
themselves. Currently it contains hundreds of work descriptions
including several thousand digital documents, videos, technical
data, institutions and bio-bibliographical information. As one of
the richest resources online, with a freshly implemented
scientific Thesaurus the database responds to the demands of the
field.
www.virtualart.at
We encourage your remarks and suggestions!
DANUBE UNIVERSITY KREMS (DUK)
The cultural studies department in Krems contains, in addition to
the program in image science, contains also film, contemporary
music and intercultural studies programs - so that the approach
is already multimedial, like the subject of Media Art History.
With our international faculty members we will continue offering
new global programs in the field of media art, collection,
curation, preservation and image management.
Center for Image Sciences: www.donau-uni.ac.at/cis
DUK NEWSLETTER: http://www.donau-uni.ac.at/zbw/engnewsletter
PERFECT COMBINATION
Beside the Database of Virtual Art - the Goettweig Print
Collection (collection database online soon), which contains
30.000 original prints from Renaissance to Barock until now,
allows in-depth research into its large resources. We are glad to
report that Danube University is able to provide our field soon
with an open archive contextualizing media art in art and image
history.
NEW ADVISORY BOARD
At the same time, we are also excited to inform the field of
researchers, artists, scholars, students who have found the
database a value to their studies, that we have a newly formed
advisory board who will help guide the Database of Virtual Art in
the future. Their contributions to the field and their
importance to the ongoing developments of media art as the art of
our times needs no introduction, but further biographical can be
found under:
http://www.virtualart.at/common/advisoryBoard.do
We welcome Roy ASCOTT, Beryl GRAHAM, Erkki HUHTAMO, Jorge LA
FERLA, Gunalan NADARAJAN, Christiane PAUL, Martin ROTH, and Steve
WILSON as advisors to the Database of Virtual Art.
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