<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">ERROR - please note the date was incorrect on the previous announcement. The event is on Wednesday and NOT Thursday! Sorry for any inconvenience.</span></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The Computer Arts Society’s series of events continues with a talk by Morgan Stricot and Beatrice Zaidenberg:<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The ZKM Digital Art Collection <o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Speakers: Morgan Stricot and Beatrice Zaidenberg, moderator: Anna Dumitriu<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">19:00 BST, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 251, 0);">Wednesday, 25 October 2023</span> via Zoom <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Other time zones here: </span><a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">https://www.timeanddate.com</span></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Since its founding in 1989,<b> </b>ZKM - the Centre for Art and Media, Karlsruhe<b>, </b>Germany<b> </b>has collected and/or produced approximately 1000 digital artworks with various typologies. This long experience has made the ZKM a centre of expertise for the preservation of such artworks. The interdisciplinary team of conservators, computer scientists, engineers, technicians, and historians, is looking for solutions to exhibit and maintain these artworks in a rapidly changing environment. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Through a selection of recently acquired artworks within the recent exhibition, such as BioMedia, the different challenges that are faced while exhibiting and preserving them will be addressed. Furthermore, other case studies will be presented to highlight how preservation affect the ZKM collection concept and scientific project.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Morgan Stricot</b> is a senior media and digital art conservator at ZKM. She is responsible, within the department Wissen | Collections, Archives & Research, for the acquisition and documentation of media and digital artworks. She holds a PhD in media archaeology from the École Supérieure Art et de Design, Orléans, France, and conducted many research projects in conservation of software-based artworks during the last 10 years. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Beatrice Zaidenberg</b> is a trained art historian working at the intersection of art, science and technology. She is part of the Dusts Institute in Vienna and the artist-research collective LIMB. Currently, she is a curatorial trainee at ZKM where she co-curated e.g., the exhibition BioMedia (2021-2022) which provides insights into possible forms of coexistence between organic life and artificial agents. Most recently, she co-curated the last group exhibition by Peter Weibel Renaissance 3.0 (2023-2024).<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><b>Anna Dumitriu</b> is an artist and a member of the CAS Committee.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">The event will be recorded and uploaded to the CAS YouTube Channel.<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"> <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="background: yellow;">This event is open to the public and is free but please book your place here</span>: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-zkm-digital-art-collection-computer-arts-society-registration-634772460517" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-zkm-digital-art-collection-computer-arts-society-registration-634772460517</a><o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">__________________________<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br>You can see our future programme here: <font color="#954f72"><a href="https://computer-arts-society.com/events/index.html">https://computer-arts-society.com/events/index.html</a></font><o:p></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div><div style="margin: 0cm -2.6pt 0cm 0cm; font-size: medium; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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