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2008 Annual Summit

DOCAM’s fourth international Summit took place on October 30 and 31, 2008, at McGill University. During this two-day conference, which was held at the Tanna Schulich Hall of the New Music Building, audience members had the opportunity to learn about the progress of DOCAM’s research and to meet distinguished speakers among whom was renowned media artist Antoni Muntadas.

 

Introduction by Alain Depocas


Day 1, Introduction

Alain Depocas, director of the DOCAM Research Alliance and of the Centre for Research and Documentation (CR+D), la fondation Daniel Langlois pour l’art, la science et la technologie


Alain Depocas © Docam 2008

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Case Studies: Works by Nam June Paik and John F. Simon, Jr.


Day 1, Group 1

Mona Jimenez, Sarah Resnick, and Yvonne Ng, New York University


Graduates of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at New York University will present two conservation assessments conducted in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, as part of the graduate course “Handling New Media”. Works discussed will be Untitled (Nam June Paik, 1968) and CPU (John F. Simon, Jr., 1999). Both works include altered hardware, and in the case of CPU, custom code. Panellists will also comment on the process of conducting the assessments as part of a graduate curriculum.
Mona Jimenez © DOCAM 2008

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L’affirmation des stratégies de préservation par l’entremise de l’entrevue d’artiste


Day 1, Group 1

Richard Gagnier, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) and DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee, Montréal
Émilie Boudrias, DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee, Montréal

This presentation focuses on an analysis of two interviews with artists. It examines the interview structure, the inherent desire to exchange points of views, and the results obtained in confirming, together with the artist, the best conservation strategy for two media artworks...

* Please note part of this presentation is in French.
Richerd Gagnier © DOCAM 2008

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Questions period: Day 1, Group 1

Mona Jimenez, Sarah Resnick, and Yvonne Ng, New York University
Richard Gagnier, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) and DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee, Montréal
Émilie Boudrias, DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee, Montréal

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Cataloguing and Preserving Greg Lynn’s Embryological House at the CCA

Day 1, Group 2

Howard Schubert, Ivanka Iordanova, and Alexis Lenk, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee, Montréal


Preserving and cataloguing digitally born architectural projects is a challenge that should be met quickly in order to ensure access to some (master-)pieces of contemporary architectural heritage. The case study on the Embryological House, a pioneering conceptual project conceived by Greg Lynn, recommends parallel methods for the conservation of this digital archive...


Howard Shubert © DOCAM 2008

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Cataloguing Structure Case Study: Max Dean and Raffaello D’Andrea, The Table: Childhood

Day 1, Group 2

Geneviève Saulnier, National Gallery of Canada (NGC), DOCAM Cataloguing Structure Committee, Ottawa
Marie-Ève Courchesne, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM) and DOCAM Cataloguing Structure Committee, Montréal

The presentation will report on the progress of the research conducted by the Cataloguing Structure Committee, notably with respect to the work by Max Dean and Raffaello D’Andrea, The Table: Childhood, housed at the National Gallery of Canada (NGC)...

* Please note most of this presentation is in French.

Geneviève Saulnier
© DOCAM 2008

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Questions period: Day 1, Group 2

Howard Schubert, Ivanka Iordanova, and Alexis Lenk, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee, Montréal
Geneviève Saulnier, National Gallery of Canada (NGC), DOCAM Cataloguing Structure Committee, Ottawa
Marie-Ève Courchesne, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM), DOCAM Cataloguing Structure Committee, Montréal

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Launch of issue 13 of .dpi, Studio XX’s electronic periodical: “Documenter l’oubli, art et archives aujourd’hui”

Day 1, Group 3

Chantal Dumas, editor-in-chief .dpi electronic periodical, Studio XX, Montréal
Émilie Houssa, guest editor .dpi electronic periodical, Studio XX, Montréal

This new issue of .Dpi proposes to think about the complex links that exist nowadays between art and archives. Today, as new technologies enable the production of more and more artistic “documents”, how can art become a tool for archiving our society? ...

 

* Please note that this presentation is in French.


Chantale Dumas © DOCAM 2008

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On the Couch: Capturing Audience Experience


Day 1, Group 4

Rolf Wolfensberger, Museum of Communication, Berne

Against the background of current preservation strategies for electronic artworks, this presentation discusses the methodological shift towards a focus on documenting user experience and contextual impacts. The paper will present results of a case study (Paul Sermon’s installation from 1993: Telematic Vision) carried out at the Museum of Communication in Berne...
Rolf Wolfensberger
© DOCAM 2008

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Research on Revolution: A Preservation Case Study in the Scope of Inside Installations

Day 1, Group 4

Gaby Wijers, Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam

The focus of this case study, within the scope of the Inside Installations project, was to establish what was important for the preservation of Jeffrey Shaw’s computer-based interactive installation and how emulation can be used as a preservation strategy...
Gaby Wijers © DOCAM 2008

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Questions period: Day 1, Group 4

Rolf Wolfensberger, Museum of Communication, Berne
Gaby Wijers
, Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam

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Between Real and Ideal: A Documentation Case Study for David Rokeby’s Giver of Names

Day 1, Group 5

Caitlin Jones, New York

In the fall of 2007, Caitlin Jones and Lizzie Muller were researchers-in-residence at the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology. Jones’ research objectives were to examine models of documentation with an emphasis on the artist’s intent, and complete a number of documentation case studies. Muller’s original research objective was to find ways to document and archive the audience’s descriptions of their experiences...

Caitlin Jones © DOCAM 2008

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Shifting Polarities: Exemplary Works of Canadian Electronic Media Art Produced Between 1970 and 1991

Day 1, Group 5

Caroline Langill, The Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), Toronto

Electronic media art’s exclusion from museum exhibition and collection, when it emerged in the early 1970’s, can be traced to historical imperatives, suggesting systemic and structural antecedents...
Caroline Langill © DOCAM 2008

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The Digital Workfile

Jour 1, Group 5

Andrea Kuchembuck, DOCAM Documentation Committee, Montréal

The presentation focuses on the research work conducted by the Documentation and Archival Management Committee and notably on the development of the “digital file of artwork.” We will present the evolution of case studies on three works by Jim Campbell: Photo of My Mother, Portrait of My Father, and Motion and Rest #5; and on the work Hylozoic Soil by Phillip Beesley.
Andréa Kuchembuck
© DOCAM 2008

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Questions period: Day 1, Group 5

Caitlin Jones, New York
Caroline Langill, The Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto
Andrea Kuchembuck
, DOCAM Documentation Committee, Montréal

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Distance Liquide, A Case Study of a Fully Archived Acousmatic Work

Day 2, Group 1

Johann Holland, Université technologique de Compiègne (UTC), National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France

Recent attempts to restore or enhance some famous historical acousmatic works of the early times lead us to think that it is very important to archive more elements than we usually do in order to perform intelligible preservation over the long-term...

Johann Holland © DOCAM 2008

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Long-Term Preservation for Artistic Communities: How to Interact with a Technical Framework


Day 2, Group 1

Bruno Bachimont, Erik Gebers and Johann Holland, Université technologique de Compiègne (UTC), National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France

UTC/CNRS designed an interface dedicated to the community members of the performing arts domain. Thanks to the iterative implementation of a prototype, its use and the related feedback by partners from artistic institutions, UTC/CNRS has been able to specify quite finely such an interface. UTC/CNRS will present the main results of this specification, mixing conceptual design and pragmatical implementation.
Bruno Bachimont © DOCAM 2008

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Questions period: Day 2, Group 1

Guillaume Boutard, Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique / Musique (IRCAM), Paris
Johann Holland, Université technologique de Compiègne (UTC), National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
Bruno Bachimont, Erik Gebers and Johann Holland, Université technologique de Compiègne (UTC), National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France

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Fitting Artistic Testbed Data in the CASPAR Model

Day 2, Group 2

Michal Masa, International Centre for Art and New Technologies (CIANT), Prague

CIANT will present complex data sets they are dealing with through several projects like V.I.R.U.S., AMA&NT and ‘Old Town Square‘, and the challenge they represent for the CASPAR project.
Michal Masa © DOCAM 2008

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From Mustica to MustiCASPAR

Day 2, Group 2

Guillaume Boutard, Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique / Musique (IRCAM), Paris

Starting from the outcome of the Mustica project, IRCAM revised the whole architecture in order to apply the OAIS model according to the design defined during the CASPAR project. IRCAM will present the benefits of such an implementation.
Guillaume Boutard
© DOCAM 2008

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Developping Vocabulary Tools for New Media Art Documentation

Day 2, Group 3

Corina Macdonald, DOCAM Terminology Committee, Montréal

DOCAM’s Terminology Committee works to develop vocabulary management tools for DOCAM researchers and the professional community. To date, these tools have taken the form of a glossary and thesaurus, which focus on terminology encountered within the domain of new media art documentation...
Corina MacDonald
© DOCAM 2008

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NT2, the “Laboratoire de recherches sur les œuvres hypermédiatiques


Day 2, Group 3

Alice van der Klei, Amélie Paquet, Paule Mackrous and Frédérique Dubé, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

NT2, the “Laboratoire de recherches sur les œuvres hypermédiatiques” at UQAM, headed by Bertrand Gervais, has a mission to promote the study, reading, creation and archiving of new forms of literature and art. NT2 has developed research strategies to allow for reflection on ways to disseminate new forms of text or art...

* Please note most of this presentation is in French
Alice van der Klei © DOCAM 2008

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Questions period: Day 2, Group 3

Corina Macdonald, DOCAM Terminology Committee, Montréal
NT2 : Alice van der Klei, Amélie Paquet, Paule Mackrous and Frédérique Dubé, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

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Keynote Address: Antoni Muntadas

Keynote Speaker: Antoni Muntadas, Barcelone, New York
Respondent: Richard Gagnier, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), chair of the DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee
Antoni Muntadas © DOCAM 2008

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Media in Motion Symposium

The Summit was preceded by a Symposium co-presented by DOCAM and Media@McGill, entitled Media in Motion, on October 29, 2008, in the New Music Building at McGill University.

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