GAMA - Gateway to Archives of Media Art

DIVA Station is one of SCCA projects, which is focused in the research, documentation and archiving of video / media art materials. DIVA Station is a physical and web archive of video art which has been developing since 2005, andis a partner in theGAMA - Gateway to Archives of Media Art, aninternational internet platform, which brings together European video / media archives to make them more visible and easily accessible.

GAMA provides access to a wealth of information about the works of both well-known and emerging media artists from European collections of media art. The media art content initially comes from eight European media art archives and can be searched and browsed on navigation platform www.gama-gateway.eu.

The portal networks different databases containing textual and visual information on more than 10,000 works. The art projects presented include previews of experimental film and video art, performances and installations; they are documented and further contextualized with texts, lectures and events. Users will, for example, find details on early works by Hungarian net artists, video artworks from Slovenia, media art from the Netherlands, France and many other countries from inside and outside Europe, as well as documentaries from the Ars Electronica festivals or experimental films from Sweden.

GAMA is establishing a central online platform to a growing network of European media art collections for interested members of the public, curators, artists, academics, researchers, and mediators.

The project was launched in November 2007 by 19 participating organizations from Europe's culture, art and technology sector:
SCCA, Center for Contemporary Arts - Ljubljana; Hochschule fur Kunste, Bremen; Akademie der Kunste, Wien; Akademii Gorniczo-Hutniczej (University of Science and Technology), Krakow; Argos, Brussels; Atos Origin, Madrid; Center for Culture & Communication, Budapest; International Centre for Art and New Technologies, Prague; Steftelsen Filmforum, Stockholm; Heure Exquise!, Mons-en-Baroeul; Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Karlsruhe; Hochschule fur Gestaltung und Kunst, Zürich; Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Utrecht; Instants Video, Marseille; Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institut Linz; Instituut voor Mediakunst Montevideo, Amsterdam; Technologie Zentrum Informatik, Universitat Bremen; Universidad de Barcelona.

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GAMA was supported by the European Commission within the framework of the eContentplus programme (2007-2009).