Many works featuring technological content are presented as installations or an arrangement of primarily sculptural components that converge to bring form to their manifestation, or to “activate” it, in the words of Nelson Goodman. Consider, for example, the sculptural components of Royal C...

The Canadian Copyright Act stipulates that museums are not obliged to obtain the authorization of the artist or the artist’s representative to reproduce a work when the work’s conservation is at stake. Thus, a conservator-restorer may reproduce a deteriorating work or migrate it to a new platfor...

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 Caitlin Jones, New York, Researcher in Residence, FDL Paul Kuranko, New York, Researcher in Residence, FDL During their residency, Caitlin Jones and Paul Kuranko will undertake three case studies of artwork and will survey and assess the considerable amount of activity ...

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 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 antecede...

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 ...

January 7, 2008 Alain Depocas, Director of the DOCAM Research Alliance, Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology Alain Depocas © DOCAM 2008 seminaire2008_depocas.xml 1) Introduction to The Variable Media Network; The "Seeing Doub...

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...

March 30, 2009 Marianne Cloutier, research assistant for the DOCAM Pedagogical Committee, and PhD Candidate in Art History, UQAM   * Please note that this presentation is in French Marianne Cloutier © DOCAM 2009 seminaire2009_cloutier.xml 1) Introducti...

March 16, 2009 Sylvie Lacerte, curator and independent researcher   * Please note that this presentation is in French Sylvie Lacerte © DOCAM 2009 seminaire2009_lacerte.xml 1) Introduction (6 min) 2) Historique des arts médiatiques : de Laszlo Moholy-N...

February 16, 2009 Vincent Bonin, archivist and independent curator   * Please note that this presentation is in French Vincent Bonin © DOCAM 2009 seminaire2009_bonin.xml 1) Introduction au concept d'archive d'artiste (20 min) 2) La notion d'« informat...

January 17, 2006 Caitlin Jones, Guggenheim Museum, New York Caitlin Jones © DOCAM 2006 seminaire2006_Jones.xml 1) Introduction to the Variable Media Network, description of variable media behaviours, and strategies for preservation / Introduction au Réseau ...