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La préservation des équipements obsolètes dans les installations vidéo et à composantes informatiques


Emanuel Lorrain
© DOCAM 2010

Day 2, Session 7

PACKED (Platform for the Archiving and Preservation of Audiovisual Arts, Brussels)

 

PACKED presents the research project it is conducting between 2009 and 2011 in collaboration with the Netherlands Media Art Institute in Amsterdam, MuHKA, and S.M.A.K. The aim of this project is to improve the long-term preservation of works threatened with the obsolescence of equipment essential to their exhibition. In its first phase, the research has focused on video works, with the second phase targeting works featuring computer components...

 

* Please note that this presentation was given in French but has been dubbed in English

 

... The ultimate goal of the project is to gather the maximum amount of documentation, resources and information in order to establish a list of practical recommendations on the handling of equipment in these types of artworks.

 

PACKED is the Dutch acronym for Platform for the Archiving and Preservation of Audiovisual Arts. Based in Brussels, the platform was created in 2005 by argos, MuHKA (Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp), S.M.A.K (Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art - Ghent), and MDD (Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens in Deurle). PACKED acts as an umbrella organization for the development and dissemination of knowledge on the cataloguing, preservation and distribution of audiovisual arts. Its objective is to provide the knowledge obtained to museums, collections, artists, and the broader field of cultural heritage.

 

Link:

• PACKED ("meemoo" since 2020, Flemish Institute for Archives) https://meemoo.be/en