TRANSISTOR

Workshop on PRESERVATION OF DIGITAL ART

Supported by the MEDIA Training Programme of the European Union.
An exceptional opportunity to meet with international leaders in the fields of preservation and digitalisation!

CIANT_International Centre for Art and New Technologies in collaboration with FAMU presents:

Preservation techniques and methodologies for digital and audiovisual records

Prague, Czech Republic
May 20-23, 2009

Among the speakers:

•Richard Wright from BBC (UK)
•Dalit Naor from IBM (Israel)
•Richard Rinehard from the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (USA)
•Don Foresta, Research artist and theoretician in art (USA/France)
•and other lecturers from 7 countries


DEADLINE TO APPLY: 15th April 2009 (please contact us if you need more time)

Limited number of participants :18

more information: transistor.ciant.cz
Video of previous TransISTor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wca-B8olJqo



What do you do to preserve your organisation’s digital and AV records?

With the world wide growth of digital information we as a people now have a new problem, there is a mass of data that must be stored and interpreted permanently. There is a strong risk that we will lose a good deal of our data, both that which is digital and that which is not yet digitalized.
Today many of our processes become obsolete quickly and are replaced by new storage process, so that we need numerous systems to access all our old data. How well we can access our legacy of data will have important consequences in our organization’s ability to retain our information capital as well as our Human cultural heritage.
Currently new techniques of archiving and retrieving of audiovisual records are being developed and are resulting in new methods for the retention of capital of audiovisual information and the preservation and access of films, videos and interactive media.


Among the lecturers:

Richard Wright (UK): Senior Researcher, BBC Research and Development
BBC project manager on European Commission projects PrestoPRIME (digital audiovisual preservation) and PrestoSpace (audiovisual preservation technology for Europe).
www.bbcarchive.org.uk

Richard Rinehard (USA): Digital Media Director at the UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive in California
He is Associate Director for Public Programs of the Berkeley Center for New Media and is a new media artist. Richard has exhibited his art at Exit Art in New York and elsewhere; curated digital art exhibitions for the Berkeley Art Museum, New Langton Arts in San Francisco, and others; and he has taught digital art at UC Berkeley and beyond.
www.coyoteyip.com

Don Foresta (USA/FR): Research artist and theoretician in art
He is using new technologies as creative tools specializing in the network as an artistic space. He is now a Visiting Research Associate at the London School of Economics and professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Arts - Paris/Cergy. He has been working for over 25 years developing the network as an artistic tool and is presently coordinating a permanent high band-width network, MARCEL, for artistic, educational and cultural experimentation.
www.donforesta.net, www.mmmarcel.org

Contact us: "transistor2009[AT]ciant[DOT]cz" or:

CIANT_International Centre for Art and New Technologies
Kubelíkova 27
130 00 Praha 3
www.ciant.cz