From: Miriam Lowack <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sep 4, 2015
Subject: CONF: Video Matters (Aachen, 24-25 Sep 15)
Space, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Jülicher Straße 97-109, 52070
Aachen, Germany, September 24 - 25, 2015
Registration deadline: Sep 21, 2015
Video Matters
A Conference by the research project Video Archive
Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen
The conference reflects on current challenges in the documentation, care
and presentation of time-based art. The interest which museums and
cultural heritage institutions have shown in this art form in the course
of the last decades has been accompanied by technical changes and
technological obsolescence, both of which have become fundamental issues
for collections. Digitization as an archiving tool has strongly
influenced the way of handling video and other media. Diverging opinions
have surfaced both in the discussion on how best to ensure the survival
of such endangered works and concerning modes of presentation, ranging
from reconstruction to re-invention.
Three interdisciplinary rounds of discussions (the archive, the
collection, the exhibition) will bring together professionals from
Europe and the US to give an opportunity to present their projects to an
interested audience and to evaluate their thoughts and concerns in
shared debates among colleagues. The conference concludes with the 4th
edition of “Archiving Media Art: Politics and Strategies”, a round table
by GAMA (The Gateway of Archives of Media Art), an international
knowledge and project sharing group.
This event is organized within the framework of the research project
Video Archive, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation and devoted to the
scholarly reappraisal and presentation of the Ludwig Forum’s historical
video collection. In cooperation with Prof. Ursula Frohne / University
of Cologne and the Center for Arts and Media ZKM, Karlsruhe.
Admission to the event is free. Please register at
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The conference language is English.
Research Project Video Archive
Brigitte Franzen, Jenny Dirksen, Lou Jonas, Miriam Lowack, Anna Sophia
Schultz
PROGRAM
Thu, 24/09/2015
9.30 am: Welcome, Brigitte Franzen (Aachen)
9.45 am: Introduction, Miriam Lowack and Lou Jonas (Aachen)
10.30 am: Keynote Lecture by Jon Ippolito (Orono, ME), Digital
Preservation in the Age of the Selfie
11.00 am: Coffee Break
- The Archive –
Given its dependence on technology, time-based media require specific
care and documentation. Starting from practical and conceptual
observations encountered when archiving media art, this panel addresses
a set of issues including sustainable strategies for preservation,
creating meaning from the documentation process, and possibilities of
opening up the archive. Moderator: Kati T. Kivinen (Helsinki)
11.20 am: Christoph Blase (Karlsruhe), The preservation of the video
archive Ludwig Forum Aachen
11.40 am: Lori Zippay (New York), The archive of Electronic Arts
Intermix (EAI)
12.00 pm: Gaby Wijers (Amsterdam), Media art conservation at Living
Media Art Foundation (LIMA)
12.20 pm: Johannes Gfeller (Bern), The research project AktiveArchive
12.40 pm: Break
2.00 pm: Debate
- The Collection –
Both a continuation and a divergence from the Archive section, the
Collection panel reflects on the specifics of managing time-based media
collections from the perspectives of museums, exhibition spaces and
distributors of video art, taking into account their respective
histories and developments.
Moderator: Alice Koegel (Stuttgart)
3.20 pm: Kathrin Becker (Berlin), The collection of the Video-Forum at
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.)
3.40 pm: Renate Buschmann (Duesseldorf), The imai Foundation - Between
Archive and Collection
4.00 pm: Coffee Break
4.20 pm: Sofie Ruysseveldt (Brussels), The collection of ARGOS Centrum
voor Kunst en Media
4.40 pm: François Michaud (Paris), The Third Dimension of Video Works:
the collection of Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris
5.00 pm: Debate
6.20 pm: Break
8.00 pm: Get-together
9.00 pm: Screening of “The Ugly One” by Eric Baudelaire
Fri, 25/09/2015
9.00 am: Introduction, Jenny Dirksen (Aachen)
- The Exhibition –
Time-based art is presented in diverse contexts such as exhibitions,
festivals, screenings, and the web. Which opportunities and requirements
do those formats entail, and is there a middle ground between a
historically informed exhibition practice and re-invention strategies
for exhibiting time-based art?
Moderator: Ursula Frohne (Cologne)
9.20 am: Keynote Lecture by Barbara London (New York) who explores how
video monitors and installations turned the white cube gallery on its head
9.50 am: Eric C.H. de Bruyn (Amsterdam), The Séance: The Screening as
Performative Event
10.10 am: Greg de Cuir Jr. (Belgrade), Curating video and the burden of
(technological) representation
10.30 am: Coffee Break
11.00 am: Keynote Lecture by Bettina Knaup (Berlin), re.act.feminism – a
performing archive
11.30 am: Artist Talk Deimantas Narkevičius (Vilnius) / Karina
Nimmerfall (Berlin/Cologne)
12.00 pm: Debate
1.20 pm: Break
2.20-3.50 pm: GAMA round table “Networking for Media Art Archiving”,
organized by Gaby Wijers
New media art archives are under constant threat of deterioration,
obsolescence, inaccessibility and disrupted funding streams. How to
bring these media art repositories into the future? The panel discusses
possible collaboration models for academies, museums, distributors and
festivals how to share knowledge and responsibility.
Moderator: Andreas Spiegl (Vienna)
With: Dieter Daniels (Leipzig), Ursula Frohne, Jon Ippolito and Gaby Wijers
http://ludwigforum.de/en/event/video-matters/
http://www.li-ma.nl/site/news/gama-round-table-archiving-media-art-ludwig-forum-aachen
Reference / Quellennachweis:
CONF: Video Matters (Aachen, 24-25 Sep 15). In: H-ArtHist, Sep 4, 2015.
<http://arthist.net/archive/10904>.
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