Evenings of Intermedia Arts
DIVA Station
Demonstration of physical and web archive of video art in Slovenia

Tuesday, January 11, at 6 pm
Trubar Literature House, Stritarjeva 7, Ljubljana

You are cordially invited to the Trubar Literature House on a lecture, presentation, projection, discussion about DIVA Station, a physical and web archive of video art which has been developing since 2005 by SCCA-Ljubljana.

Barbara Borčić in Ida Hiršenfelder, heads of the archive, will present the context and purpose of DIVA archive.

The presentation will be followed by the screening of the video essay Digital Video Archive (script, camera, editing, and text: Nika Grabar, 16 min, production: SCCA-Ljubljana, 2009). Video essay was produced in the framework of the study exhibition Diva at Škuc Gallery in 2009. The author says: "Archiving is really keeping some kind of memory alive. DIVA is trying to find memory for images and enable us to think the space of art. Without it we are caught in the image of a world that is reproducing us in a mechanical way."

The event is part of the program Evenings of Intermedia Arts of the Municipality of Ljubljana, Department for Culture.

DIVA Station is a continuation of a number of research, documentation and archive projects in the field of video / media art (Videodokument, curatorial selections of video works Videospotting, artists' Internet Portfolio, Artservis’ Collection and e-archive). After a successful presentation of DIVA Station at Škuc Gallery in June 2009, we are also presenting DIVA Station on different festivals (Ars Electronica in Linz, Media Scape in Novigrad) and on other occasions in order to inform the wider public about the theoretical, practical and artistic aspects of audiovisual archives of contemporary art.

DIVA Station is also a partner archive of GAMA (Gateway to Archives of Media Art), an international internet platform, which brings together European video and media archives to make them more visible and easily accessible.

More information:

• Postaja DIVA
• GAMA (Gateway to Archives of Media Art)

For an invitation and collaboration we would like to thank the Municipality of Ljubljana, especially to Semira Osmanagić.

SCCA-Ljubljana program is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana.

[Published January 7, 2010]