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— Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst
<Mailing@montevideo.nl> wrote:
>
> Monitoring Media Art Preservation
>
> (English only)
> For years the Danish Video Art Data Bank provided us
> with e-news about the international video art world
> and preservation. Now this initiative will have to
> stop and the European video and media art community
> could need a new provider. It was this realization
> that prompted the setup of the Netherlands Media Art
> Institutes plans. From January 2005 on the
> Netherlands Institute for Media Art will publish her
> Media Art Preservation Resources on her website
> www.montevideo.nl. New media art preservation
> research, visited events, publications and
> presentations will be published as an online
> newsletter. As a tribute to Torben Soborgs Video Art
> e-monitor we will call this service Monitoring Media
> Art Preservation.
>
> Monitoring Media Art Preservation is the online
> newsletter on preservation of the Netherlands Media
> Art Institute and offers 4 times a year information
> and news about ongoing research, presentations and
> publications dealing with video and media art
> preservation. The newsletter will be in English
> only.
>
> Subscribe/ Unsubscribe:
> <mailto:preservation@montevideo.nl>
> preservation@montevideo.nl
> Editor: Gaby Wijers <mailto:gaby@montevideo.nl>
> gaby@montevideo.nl
>
>
> INCCA Preservation and Presentation of
> Installation Art project
> As of June 1, 2004, the Preservation and
> Presentation of Installation Art project, initiated
> by the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage,
> is officially under way. This research project into
> the management and conservation of installations is
> taking place within the framework of the EU's
> Culture 2000 program.
> The rapid obsolescence of media technologies,
> interactivity and, for instance, the site specific
> character of many installations are a challenge for
> prevailing views about long-term conservation,
> documentation and presentation. Thirty complex
> installations (many multimedia) are being set up,
> investigated and documented in the project. By
> sharing their experience the partners are working
> together in developing guidelines for conservation,
> re-installation and documentation of installation
> art. <http://www.incca.org/> http://www.incca.org/
>
>
>
> Presentation PACKED
> Wednesday February 9 the full report of PACKED shall
> be presented in Brussels. PACKED stands for:
> Platform for the Archiving and Preservation of
> Artistic Creations on Electronic or Digital Bearers.
> PACKED is an initiative by the Flemish museums Smak
> and Muhka along with Argos, centre for audiovisual
> arts.
> The preservation platform is targeted, among other
> things, towards the exchange and compilation of
> expertise and information on preservation and
> archiving, collection building and the public
> disclosure of audiovisual creations, as well
> discussions on the subject and the development of
> short-term policy preparation.
> <http://www.packed.be/> http://www.packed.be
>
>
> Media Art Preservation Conference
> Preservation or Documentation? Conservation or
> Digital Distribution
> Media art works represent some of the most
> compelling and significant artistic creations of our
> time. 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.
> 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.
>
>
>
>
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> Montevideo/Time Based Arts
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> NL 1016 EV Amsterdam
> The Netherlands
> T +31 (0)20 6237101
> F +31(0)20 6244423
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