DIVA Station participates at
Ars Electronica 2011 panel:
Archiving Media Art: Politics and Strategies II: The Future of Media Art Archiving

September 4, 2011, 18:00-20:00
Seminar room at the Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria

Worldwide, small and medium sized art centres have supported experiments in new media, provided access to new technologies and exhibited and distributed media-based art. As a result many have considerable collections of videotapes, media artworks, documentation and ephemera; collections that tell a far more complete history than could ever be told by the few select pieces held in major institutions. Unfortunately, most of these independent institutions and collections exist under a constant threat of deterioration, obsolescence, inaccessibility and disrupted funding streams. How can these media art works be carried into the future? What concepts are available to warrant future media art archiving?

Panel
The establishment of media art was closely related to the development of new channels of production, distribution and presentation for this art form. Early initiatives grew into institutions that are now holding archives or collections, which are closely related to the institution’s profile and mandate. The panel discusses the significance of the institutional setting with respect to the creation of the repository, the significance of the archive within the institution’s activities and its accessibility for the public and researchers.

A panel discussion by:

• Andreas Spiegl (Akademie der Künste Wien, AT),
• Olof van Winden (Director of NIMk, NL),
• Robert Sakrowski (art historian and curator in the field of Net-based art, DE),
• Ida Hiršenfelder (SCCA Ljubljana/DIVA Station, SI).

(More participants to be confirmed later.)

This panel discussion is the second round table event organised by GAMA e.V. following the first panel and the launch of the GAMA site at the Ars Electronica 2009.
http://gama-gateway.eu

Invitation

DIVA Station is a continuation of a number of research, documentation and archive projects in the field of video/media art by SCCA-Ljubljana. DIVA Station participates 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.
DIVAStation 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.

For an invitation and collaboration we would like to thank the GAMA Foundation, especially Christine Sauter.
SCCA-Ljubljana program is supported by Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia, Municipality of Ljubljana.

[Published Spetmeber 2, 2011]