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Media Art Preservation Conference
February 14, 2005
Netherlands Media Art Institute
February 14 2005 the Netherlands Media Art Institutes will offer the specialists in this field the opportunity to get a state of the art overview on the conservation and documentation of media art by presenting prominent international speakers and projects.

Preservation or Documentation
Conservation or Digital Distribution
Media art works represent some of the most compelling and significant artistic creations of our time. These works constitute a rich history of artistic practice on a fragile medium. Because of their short live, technical, or otherwise variable natures and because of the variability and rapid obsolescence of the media formats, they also present significant obstacles to accurate documentation, access, and preservation. Without strategies for preservation many of these vital works will be lost to future generations. This is why the preservation is of fundamental importance to media art, and a challenge to specialized technicians, curators and scientists in this field. The Netherlands Media Art Institute researches the recording and preservation methods for media art and plays an internationally prominent role in the development and implementation of new methods and techniques in that field.

Morning program 
The Netherlands Media Art Institute, in association with OASIS, has invited speakers from European and American organizations and projects to disseminate their policies, approaches, research, and case studies on the documenting and preservation of media artworks. Amongst others: Gaby Wijers (Netherlands Media Art Institute), Peter Cornwell (ZKM), Alain Depocas (Langlois Foundation), Caitlin Jones (Guggenheim Museum), Juergen Enge (Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung), Tatja Scholte (ICN/INCCA), Sandra Fauconnier (V2) 

Afternoon program
In the afternoon a closed meeting is organized with an expert meeting and workshops for the OASIS members. It will deal with the technical aspects and there will be talked about the international activities and better knowledge exchange.

The full program is available online: http://www.montevideo.nl/en/nieuws/detailC.php?id=72
Registration at the Netherlands Media Art Institute. Costs for participation with the morning program is including lunch EUR 25,-

More information/registration:
Gaby Wijers [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> T +31 (0)20 6237101

This conference is organized in the frame of the project OASIS - Open Archiving System with Internet Sharing. The OASIS project is a joint activity within the framework of the EU's Culture 2000 program of Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG), Karlsruhe, Germany, International Centre for Art and New Technology (CIANT), Praha, Czech Republic, University of Science and Technology (AGH), Krakow, Poland, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany, Les Instants Video Numeriques et Poetiques, Marseille, France and the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Together this institutions will design new environment for the media arts content gathering, preservation, presentation and distribution of media art as well for exchange of information all according to specific needs of local cultural/educational institutions and artists. 



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Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo
Keizersgracht 264
1016 EV Amsterdam
the Netherlands
t +31 (0)20 6237101
f +31 (0)20 6244423
http://www.montevideo.nl