Netherlands Media Art Institute

MONITORING MEDIA ART PRESERVATION // edition 2008-2

Online newsletter on preservation by the Netherlands Media Art Institute. Offers 4 times a year information and news about ongoing research, presentations and publications dealing with video and media art preservation. The newsletter is in English only.

Editor: Gaby Wijers gaby@nimk.nl
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International symposium
(New) Media Art in Museums: production - keeping - presentation
Rijeka 15 - 17 October 2008
The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka organizes the international symposium (New) Media Art in Museums that will be held 15 - 17 October 2008 at the City Hall in Rijeka.
The aim of the international symposium (New)Media Art in Museums is to consider status of (new)media art in museum collections, conditions of keeping, protection, modes of exhibiting and all the changes that (new)media art introduces into the everyday practice of contemporary museums.
more information http://www.mmsu.hr/.

Conference
Media Art in North Rhine-Westphalia: Collections, Conservation, Presentation
Düsseldorf 23 October, 2008
Imai - inter media art institute - in Düsseldorf organizes a conference about the conservation and ‘restage’ of media-based installations in cooperation with the Land Nordrhein-Westfalen and the Städtetag Nordrhein-Westfalen.
http://www.imaionline.de/content/view/58/1/lang,en/

Conference
DOCAM's fourth International Summit and symposium
Montreal 29 - 31 October 2008
This year, DOCAM’s fourth International Summit will be held on October 30 and 31, at McGill University. During the two days of this public conference taking place at the Tanna Schulich Hall of the New Music Building, audience members will have the opportunity to learn about the progress of DOCAM’s research and to meet distinguished speakers among whom will be renowned Spanish artist Antoni Muntadas. For the first time, the Summit will be preceded by DOCAM’s Media in Motion Symposium, which will be held on October 29.
http://www.docam.ca/en/?cat=17

Seminar
Permanence in Contemporary Art - Checking Reality’
Copenhagen 3 - 4 November 2008
A seminar to be held the 3rd and 4th of November 2008, arranged by the Conservation Department at Statens Museum for Kunst in collaboration with The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
Statens Museum for Kunst and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Visual Arts, will be the organisers of this international seminar addressing various critical issues surrounding the preservation and exhibition of contemporary artworks. The seminar, which will encourage interdisciplinary exchange between museum professionals including conservators, art historians, artists and others.
http://icom-cc-wg.phpbb24.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=70

Website
Media Matters launches phase 2
A consortium of curators, conservators, registrars, legal advisors, and media technical managers from New Art Trust, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Tate has launched the second phase of Media Matters, an innovative website designed to provide international guidelines for the care of time-based media works of art (e.g. video, slide, film, audio, and computer-based installations).
http://www.tate.org.uk/mediamatters

Project
TAPE project finalized, EPCA closed
The European Commission on Preservation and Access was established in 1994 to promote the preservation of the documentary heritage in Europe. This year, with the finalisation op the TAPE project http://www.tape-online.net, the ECPA will bring its work to a close. The website will remain for a wile, the mailinglists are closed in July.

Study day
Saving electronic and digital media
A study day for artists and others, Antwerp October 28 2008
Organized by Packed http://www.packed.be/

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