2nd Summit on New Media Art Archiving 

The Second Summit on New Media Art Archiving aims to facilitate critical discourse and collaboration amongst archivists, curators, artists, researchers, and other parties interested in the preservation and online archiving of new media art. This summit will serve as an incubator of innovative ideas, production techniques, and infrastructure development as well as assist in connecting like-minded individuals in an effort to create a unified approach to solving the complex problem of preserving the history of new media art.  The Summit is organised by ISEA2022 Barcelona, the ISEA Symposium Archives, and SIGGRAPH History Archive, in cooperation with the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA), FILE Festival archive, ADA Archive of Digital Art and Ars Electronica archive.

Organizing Committee: Bonnie Mitchell, Jan Searleman, Terry Wong and Wim van der Plas.

Friday 10 June 10:00-11:45

• Welcoming Remarks – MACBA Archive
  Marta Vega
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation

• Introducing Arc-hive
  Antonio Gagliano, Luciana Della Villa
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation
• Evanescent records
  Constanza Brnčić
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation
• Experimental archiving. Artpool’s website as a digital archive of underground art in Hungary
  Flóra Barkóczi
  SNMAA – New Media Art Archiving Around the World – Short Paper
  
• The Australian Emulation Network: Accessing Born Digital Cultural Collections
  Melanie Swalwell
  SNMAA – New Media Art Archiving Around the World – Long Paper
  
• The future of art museums in the digital age: VR for archiving purpose
  Ze Gao, Varvara Guljajeva
  SNMAA – Tools & Methodologies: XR – Long Paper

Friday 10 June 12:00-14:00

• Conservation of Multimedia Art: Case Study on Teoman Madra Archive
  Selcuk Artut, Begüm Çelik
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation – Short Paper
  
• Archiving Strategies in the Computational Age: creating a Media + Data Art digital media library based on a curatorial methodology
  Jose Maria Alonso-Calero, Jose Antonio Vertedor-Romero and Juan Carlos Robles-Florido
  SNMAA – Tools & Methodologies – Short Paper
  
• VR as a function for archiving media arts, one example
  Predrag Sidjanin, Luka Tilinger, Maja Budzarov, Nina Zvezdin
  SNMAA – Tools & Methodologies: XR – Short Paper
• Archiving the Symposium Expanded Animation: Challenges, Solutions and International Collaborations
  Juergen Hagler
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation – Short Paper
  
• Introducing Videotage Media Art Collection (VMAC)
  John Chow, Wing Shan Chung
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation – Lightning Talk
  
• The Different Histories of Electronic Art in the V2_ Archive
  Arie Altena, Michel van Dartel
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation – Lightning Talk
  
• Digitized Analog Memories
  Erik Contreras
  SNMAA – Individual Artist & Archiving – Lightning Talk
  
• Establishing the Computer Arts Society Archive
  Sean Clark, Sean Carroll
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation – Lightning Talk
  
• Visions of Mouchette
  Martine Neddam
  SNMAA – Individual Artist & Archiving – Lightning Talk
  
• Participatory Preservation
  Kelani Nichole
  SNMAA – New Media Art Archives & Museums – Lightning Talk

Friday 10 June 15:30-17:15

• i:M:mobile
  Lawrence Bird
  SNMAA – Artist Talk – Lightning Talk

• Visualizing the Illkun (Anger)
  Marcela Antipan Olate
  SNMAA – Artist Talk – Lightning Talk

• Gendernaut. Queering the future
  Diego Marchante
  SNMAA – Artist Talk – Lightning Talk

• Anatomy of a Fatberg
  Andrea Palašti, Sanja Anđelković, Stefana Janićijević, Jovana Pešićç
  SNMAA – Artist Talk – Lightning Talk
  
• Archiving New Media Art Archives
  Byeongwon Ha
  SNMAA – Artist Talk – Lightning Talk
• Visually reading the pandemic: Translating an Open Access Archive into an immersive interactive Artwork
  Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Dario Rodighiero, Elian Carsenat, Jules Döring, Michaela Fragner, Stepha Farkahaszy, Oliver Elias
  SNMAA – Artist Talk – Lightning Talk
• Spiral of Words
  Predrag Sidjanin, Luka Tilinger, Maja Budzarov, Nina Zvezdin
  SNMAA – Artist Talk – Lightning Talk

• ‘Data Whiskers’ and ‘Ecophagy’
  Martijn Hage
  SNMAA – Artwork in Exhibition

• Right-Click to Save: Preservation, NFTs, and Distributed Ledgers
  John Bell, Regina Harsanyi, Jon Ippolito
  SNMAA – Tools & Methodologies – Panel

Friday 10 June 17:30-19:30

• Revealing Higher Impact of Media Art Archiving
  Oliver Grau, Laura Ettel, Philipp Hoffmann, Alexander Wöran and Carla Zamora
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation – Invited Talk
  
• ISEA Symposium Archives: Progressing from the Past to the Future
  Wim van der Plas, Bonnie Mitchell, Jan Searleman, Terry Wong
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation – Invited Talk
  
• Ars Electronica Archive
  Christina Radner
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation – Invited Talk
  
• FILE Archive
  Paula Perissinotto, Fabiana Krepel
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation – Invited Talk
  
• ACM SIGGRAPH History Archives: Expanding the Vision through Teamwork
  Bonnie Mitchell, Jan Searleman
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation – Invited Talk

• Interconnecting Archives: Paving a Path Forward
  Bonnie Mitchell, Luis Wilson, Alexa Mahajan, Oliver Grau
  SNMAA – New Media Art Archiving – Invited Talk

• Towards a Global Distributed Network of New Media Art Archives
  Bonnie Mitchell, Oliver Grau 
  SNMAA – New Media Art Archiving – Round Table
  
• Global Archiving Network: A Case Study on the Second Summit on New Media Art Archiving
  Terry C. W. Wong
  SNMAA – New Media Art Archiving – Invited Talk

Saturday 11 June 10:00-11:40

• UNCOPIED.ART: Making the original truly unique: Introducing a blockchain for GLAM institutions
  Eveline Wandl-Vogt, Elian Carsenat, Dario Rodighiero
  SNMAA – Tools & Methodologies – Lightning Talk
  
• Collecting and Preserving Expanded & Extended Nonfiction
  Arnau Gifreu-Castells
  SNMAA – Tools & Methodologies – Lightning Talk
  
• IMAI Play: The video art channel of the Inter Media Art Institute
  Darija Šimunović, Linnea Semmerling
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation – Lightning Talk
  
• Research-based Online Archive and the Canonization of Net Art
  Tereza Havlikova
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation – Lightning Talk
  
• MEMODUCT posthuman.archive: The Site-specific Media Art History
  Violeta Vojvodic Balaz, Eduard Balaz
  SNMAA – Archive Presentation – Lightning Talk
  
• Archiving Twitter Database & Visualization from Artwork
  Jiayi Young
  SNMAA – Artists and Archiving – Lightning Talk
  
• Emerging Collaborative Preservation Projects in Asia
  Myra Chan, John Chow, Kyle Chung, Joel Kwong, Su Wei
  SNMAA – New Media Art Archiving Around the World – Lightning Talk

Saturday 11 June 12:00-14:00

• AR[t]chive – Augmented Reality Experience for a Digital Art Archive
  Tiago Martins, Christa Sommerer, Laurent Mignonneau
  SNMAA – Tools & Methodologies: XR – Long Paper
  
• Practicing Odin Teatret’s Archives: virtual translations of embodied knowledge through archival practices
  Adriana La Selva, Ioulia Marouda
  SNMAA – Tools & Methodologies: XR – Long Paper
  
• Accessing and Displaying the Archive
  Tabea Lurk, Jürgen Enge
  SNMAA – Tools & Methodologies – Long Paper
  
• Restoring the Recent Past: Learnings from producing a retrospective of VR content from the UK
  Aki Jarvinen
  SNMAA – Tools & Methodologies: XR – Short Paper
  
• Public Library Consoles – Publishing Collections with the Flick of a Hand
  Dan Norton, Fernando Vilariño
  SNMAA – Tools & Methodologies – Short Paper
  
• Newsslider, smart mining of archives
  Danielle Arets, Martina Huynh, Jonas Althous, Tijmen Altena
  SNMAA – Tools & Methodologies – Short Paper

Saturday 11 June 15:30-17:25

• Multi-Generation Digital Stewardship: XR Art & Technology Archives
  Rhonda Holberton, Don Hanson, Amanda Helton, Timothy Summers, Nick Szydlowski
  SNMAA – Tools & Methodologies: XR – Panel
  
• Stayin’ Alive. Southern Cone Video Art Archives in Context.
  María Alejandra Crescentino
  SNMAA – New Media Art Archiving Around the World – Long Paper
  
• A forgotten, almost lost, and partially hidden piece of history: new media arts in Latin America
  Ricardo Dal Farra
  SNMAA – New Media Art Archiving Around the World – Long Paper
  
• “Always Only Once:” The paradox of preserving performative digital works
  Amy Alexander
  SNMAA – Individual Arts and Archiving – Long Paper

Saturday 11 June 17:40-19:30

• Demusealizing the museum: audience’s digital agency and institutional critique 2.0 as possible futures for art institutions
  Nathalia Lavigne, Giselle Beiguelman, Bruno Moreschi, Rafael Pagatini
  SNMAA – New Media Art Archiving and Museums – Panel
  
• “The Right to the Image”: Ethics of Representation and Appropriation in New Media Art Archives since the 2011 Arab Uprisings
  Lisa Deml
  SNMAA – New Media Art Archiving and Ethics – Short Paper
  
• Round table on Ethics and New Media Art Archiving
  Moderated by: Lisa Deml and Nathalia Lavigne
  

Final Programme (PDF)

About the 2nd Summit on New Media Art Archiving 

After the very successful first Summit on New Media Art Archiving at ISEA2020, the second Summit will take place during ISEA2022 in 10-11 June 2022. It is being organised by ISEA2022 (Spain), ISEA Symposium Archives (NL/USA), and SIGGRAPH History Archive (USA) and in cooperation with the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art-MACBA, FILE Festival archive (Brasil), the ADA Archive of Digital Art and Ars Electronica archive (both Austria).

Introduction

The need to preserve the history of the rapidly evolving field of new media arts has spurred the development of a wide variety of new media art archives throughout the world. Museums, cultural and educational institutions, as well as individuals with collections have developed, or are planning to create physical and/or online archives in an effort to preserve important artifacts and document events and creative works. The Second Summit on New Media Art Archiving aims to facilitate critical discourse and collaboration amongst archivists, curators, artists, researchers, and other parties interested in preserving the past. This summit will serve as an incubator of innovative ideas, production techniques, and infrastructure development as well as assist in connecting like-minded individuals in an effort to create a unified approach to solving the complex problem of preserving the history of new media art.

History

The initiative started with an ISEA roundtable discussion on new media archiving at ISEA2018 in Durban, South Africa followed by a very well-attended roundtable at ISEA2019 in Gwangju, South Korea. The First Summit on New Media Art Archiving was held during ISEA2020, (online from Montreal, Canada) featuring a keynote lecture, paper presentations, and break-out sessions.