Janet Cardiff’s Forty Part Motet presents an interesting study for the preservation of new media artworks from both theoretical positions of reproduction and technological and/or actual physical methods of preservation. Drawing on Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Ages of Its Technolog...

Day 1, Group 5 Lucas Ihlein, Teaching and Learning Cinema, Australia                                                                                                                                   ...

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 a...

January 21, 2008 Jean Gagnon, Director of the Daniel Langlois Foundation Jean Gagnon © DOCAM 2008 seminaire2008_gagnon.xml 1) Introduction, Curating media art, documenting installation and participation 2) Curating media art, documenting installation and p...

Day 1, Group 3 Lizzie Muller, Australia, Researcher in Residence, FDL The actual, lived experience of the audience is a central concern in contemporary culture, which finds particular expression in New Media Art.  With its emphasis on interaction, dematerialisation, systems and genera...

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 proj...

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 w...

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...

Day 1, Group 2 Caitlin Jones, Guggenheim Museum, New York Conservators have explored many traditional and experimental strategies for dealing with works of an ephemeral nature. Among these strategies is a way to replicate obsolete or unavailable materials or hardware – emulation. To emu...