[spectre] MONITORING MEDIA ART PRESERVATION

[Marieke Istha]

MONITORING MEDIA ART PRESERVATION

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Preservation of display and playback equipment
PACKED - Platform for the Archiving and Preservation of Audiovisual Arts 
(Brussels) and the Netherlands Institute for Media Art (Amsterdam) 
currently execute a research project into the preservation of display 
and playback equipment for video art. As part of this research project 
PACKED and NIMk ask the cooperation from organizations, archives and 
individuals.

Since the emergence of the medium video, different recording, playback 
and display systems have been developed that got obsolete afterwards due 
to the technological evolution. This equipment (video recorders, 
monitors, projectors, .) has often become rare. But at the same time 
access to it is crucial to exhibit old video works and safeguard them 
for the future.

PACKED and NIMk kindly ask organizations, archives and individuals that 
own this kind of equipment, maintain it, or need access to it to fill 
the questionnaire that you can find here 
(http://www.nimk.nl/en/index_nieuws.php?id=202). Answers from both the 
field of art as others fields are welcome.

More information on the project can also be found at 
http://www.packed.be/en//projects/readmore/obsolete_apparatuur/

PACKED and NIMk thank you for your kind cooperation. This research 
project runs until the end of June 2010. It is supported by an 
international project grant from the Flemish Government in the framework 
of the Cultural Heritage Decree.

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To Transfer or to Transform #3
November 19th
Start: 20.00 hrs
Together with the Netherlands Media Art Institute, the Netherlands 
Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN) is researching the installations 
Mill x Molen (1982,1990) by Bert Schutter and Panta Rhei (1988) by 
Ricardo Füglistahler. On Thursday night, November 19th at NIMk, Evelyne 
Snijders will present the researchproject and will give an introduction 
to the initial results of this investigation. Bert Schutter will present 
Mill x Molen and Ricardo Füglistahler will discuss with Paul Klomp the 
preservation process of Panta Rhei. The installations will be 
re-installed and presented on 19-21 November.

During the set-up the work will be comprehensively documented so that 
instructions for re-installation and plans for developing an approach to 
its long-term conservation can be drawn up.
The documentation of the case studies, drawing up best practice and 
guidelines for re-installation are elements of the IMAGO Revisited 
Project. Both installations are also case studies in the Obsolete 
Equipment project.
More information on the project: 
http://www.nimk.nl/en/index_nieuws.php?id=205

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3th Inside Movement Knowledge Lab
23 - 30 October 2009
The third Inside Movement Knowledge lab will take place at DasArts, 
Amsterdam School of the Arts from 23 to 30 October 2009 followed by an 
expert meeting on dance reconstruction. The NIMk research group reviewed 
models for the documentation and reconstruction of contemporary art. As 
part of our ongoing project of producing a model for documenting and 
reconstructing Extra Dry, we studied existing documentation of EG | PC 
in preparation of an in-depth interview with Emio Greco and Pieter 
Scholten to take place in November.

More information on the project can also be found at
http://insidemovementknowledge.net/

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Symposium Contemporary Art Who Cares?
10-12 June 2010 in Amsterdam.
http://www.incca.org/contemporaryartwhocares
Besides the 2010 symposium in Amsterdam, the Netherlands Institute of 
Cultural Heritage and the Foundation for the Preservation of Modern Art 
are organizing a seminar in December 2009, in Ljubljana Slovenia.
http://www.incca.org/access2ca

A Race Against Time: Online tutorial : Preserving Our Audiovisual Media
The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) traveled 
to 8 U.S. cities over the course of several years presenting the program 
entitled /A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media./ This 
series of videos was developed based on the content from those programs. 
This online tutorial was developed for curators, librarians, archivists, 
collections managers and other staff who are involved in managing 
machine-based media collections in cultural institutions. Viewers will 
learn basic principles and concepts for managing audiovisual collections 
and will be provided with information and strategies for preservation, 
contracting for reformatting, and finding funding opportunities.
http://www.ccaha.org/education/videos

Reconstructing Swiss Video Art from the 1970s and 1980s
(German and English Editions)
Publication of the 2008 exhibition and symposium Reconstructing Swiss 
Video Art from the 1970s and 1980s by the AktiveArchive research project 
in collaboration with the Kunstmuseum Luzern. Focusing on the concept of 
the exhibition, the principle of re-performance implemented in the 
reconstructions, and the problems raised by the long term conservation 
of electronic works.
http://www.jrp-ringier.com/upload/books/pdf/f1509.pdf

Monitoring Media Art Preservation
Online newsletter on preservation of the Netherlands Media Art Institute 
and offers information and news about ongoing research, presentations 
and publications dealing with video and media art preservation. The 
newsletter is in English only. SUBSCRIBE? send an email to 
preservation at nimk.nl


Editor: Gaby Wijers gaby at nimk.nl

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