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.

 

Media in Motion Symposium Program

 

The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age - October 29, 2008

Rooms 832/833, New Music Building
Schulich School of Music
McGill University, 527 Sherbrooke W.

 

9:00-9:15 – Opening Remarks

Alain Depocas, Director, DOCAM Research Alliance; Director, Centre for Research and Documentation, Daniel Langlois Foundation

Dr. William Straw, Professor, Communication Studies; Acting Director, Media@McGill; McGill University

 

9:15-10:30 – DIGITAL PRESERVATION: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES
Moderator: Marilyn Terzic, McGill University

Somaya Langley, National Library of Australia / Australian Music Centre, Australia
Mediating Models and Modes:

Laura Barreca, PAN I Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Italy
Conservation and Documentation of New Media Art. The Debate between the Italian Theory and International Strategies

Andrew McHugh, Perla Innocenti, and Seamus Ross, HATII at the University of Glasgow
Assessing Risks to Digital Cultural Heritage with DRAMBORA

 

10h45-12h00 – VIDEO PRESERVATION: MEDIUM AND MATTER
Moderator: Marie-Catherine Cyr, Alliance de recherche DOCAM

 

Ariane Noël de Tilly, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Netherlands
Collecting a Fragment of an Ongoing Project: Mike Kelley’s Series Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction

Melitte Buchman and Alice Moscoso, New York University, US
A Walk in the Dark: Preserving Video Now

Marilyn Terzic, McGill University, Canada
Of Optics and Aesthetics: Perceptual Considerations in the Preservation of Video Art

 

13h30-14h45 – NEW MEDIA, NEW PARADIGMS
Moderator: Andrea Kuchembuck, Alliance de recherche DOCAM

 

Nina Wenhart, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
The Grammar of New Media: Notation Systems for Digital Media Art

Corina MacDonald, Canadian Heritage Information Network, Canada
New Media, New Knowledge: A Knowledge Management Perspective on the Preservation of New Media Art

Stéphanie Corriveau, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Canada
La propriété intellectuelle et les arts médiatiques

 

15h00-16h15 – DEFINING AND PRESERVING DIGITAL OBJECTS
Moderator: Stephanie Corriveau, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal

 

Kathleen Fear, University of Michigan, US
Approaches to Defining the Significant Properties of Digital Objects

Joanna Barwick, Loughborough University, UK
What are the Barriers to the Preservation of Digital Game Heritage?

Kam Woods, Indiana University, US
Virtualization for Preservation of Executable Art

 

16h30-17h45 – THE DIGITAL DIVIDE
Moderator: Marilyn Terzic, McGill University

 

Tabea Lurk and Jürgen Enge, AktiveArchive – BUA | Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland
An Evaluation Chart for Born Digital Artworks

Tracy Popp, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, US
A Moving Target: Archiving Net Art

Jon Cates, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US
Copying-it-right: Archiving the Media Art of Phil Morton