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ANNUAL SUMMITS 2006 Summit
ANNUAL SUMMITS 2006 Summit
2006 Annual Summit
For the second consecutive year, the DOCAM Research Alliance, in collaboration with the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, held an international summit on the issues surrounding the documentation and conservation of technology-based works of art. The public conference day was held on October 26th, 2006 in the Tanna Schulich Hall at the McGill University Schulich School of Music, a DOCAM partner.
Introduction & Documentation and Archival Management Committee presentation
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Day 1, Group 1Alain 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 introduces DOCAM’s committees and reports on the Documentation and Archival Management Committee’s findings. |
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Case Studies: Models for methodology in the preservation of time-based media works using the case study approach
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Day 1, Group 1Richard Gagnier, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), chair of the DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee, MontréalThe term ‘time-based media’ encompasses works of art that deploy their effects within a certain notion of mobility or changes that occur in the work as the viewer experiences it. This term generally refers to film, video, and any other source of moving images. The domain is finding an immense territory of exploration with today’s widely used digital concepts and manipulations... |
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Pedagogical Activities: Seminar on “Preservation of New Media”
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Day 1, Group 1William Straw, McGill UniversityLouise Poissant, Université du Québec à Montréal The seminar on “Preservation of New Media”, held in the Winter of 2006, brought together the various areas of the DOCAM project, in a concentrated, workshop-like course designed to introduce students to the various aspects of new media preservation. Curators, historians of technology, information scientists and museum professionals provided overviews of the issues confronting those engaged in new media presrvation. The presentation offers an overview of the seminar and discusses its role within the DOCAM project overall. |
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Technological Timeline Committee presentation
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Day 1, Group1William Straw, McGill UniversityWilliam Straw presents the research results of the Technological Timeline Committee. |
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Cataloguing Structure Committee presentation
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Day 1, Group 1Allison Simpson, Canadian Heritage Information NetworkElaine Tolmatch, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Avery Larose, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Members of the Cataloguing Structure Committee (Allison Simpson, Elaine Tolmatch and Avery Larose) present their research plan and initial findings. |
| Elaine Tolmach, Allison Simpson © DOCAM 2006 |
Terminology Committee presentation
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Day 1, Group 1James Turner, Université de Montréal : École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI)James Turner reports on the Terminology Committee’s updates, and the development of various tools, including the thesaurus and ontological model for media arts. |
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Teaching the Conservation of Time-based Media Art
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Day 1, Group 2Mona Jimenez, Tisch School for the Arts, New York UniversityThe presentation will begin with an overview of the goals and scope of the seminar “Handling New Media”, a required course in the graduate program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation at New York University. The seminar focuses on preservation challenges and emerging strategies for new media and digital works.... |
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Best Before?
The New Graduate Programme “Conservation of New Media and Digital Information” at the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart
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Day 1, Group 2Hans Dieter Huber, Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste, StuttgartDirector of this new graduate programme Hans Dieter Huber will begin his presentation with the history of the State Academy of Art and Design Stuttgart. Dr Huber will then explain the development of the department of restoration with its five study courses. A closer look into the concept, the aims and the curriculum of the New Study program “Conservation of New Media and Digital Information” will be undertaken. An outline on the planned cooperations and future perspectives will conclude the presentation. |
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Artist and technologist
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Day 1, Group 3Matthew Biederman, artist, Montréal, QuébecThe presentation will discuss a recent effort in in upgrading several of Michael Naimark’s early “moviemap” works, such as Golden Gate Flyover (1987) and Karlsrhue Moviemap (1991) The paper specifically looks at the type of documentation and its importance in interactive computer controlled installations, with an eye towards the inevitable technology shift, or “performing a brain transplant while leaving the body intact” (Michael Naimark). |
| Matthew Biederman © DOCAM 2006 |
Where are we now? Capabilities, process and change in the conservation of time-based media works of art
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Day 1, Group 4Pip Laurenson, Tate, LondonThis talk reflects on “where we are now” in the conservation of time-based media works of art and the challenges we face over the next few years... |
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Keynote address – Vera Frenkel
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Day 1, Group 5Vera Frenkel, artist, Toronto, OntarioRules for letting go: Internationally renowned Canadian artist Vera Frenkel presents her work. |
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