Workshop: Online Archives of Media Art - Contextualisation, Metadata, Translation

13 - 15 November, Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
Conference Hall 1
organised by the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Media.Art.Research, Linz
Tuesday 13.11. evening: Get together
Wednesday 14.11. 13:00 - 15:30 / 16:00 - 19:00
Thursday 15.11. 10:00 - 13.00

If you are interested in participating in this expert meeting, please, register at: mailto:office@media.lbg.ac.at.

1. Content vs Context
Moderation: Gabriele Blome / Barbara U. Schmidt

There have been extended discussions about the information a media art data base should contain in order to provide thorough information about often unstable and hybrid types of works. Moreover in this section we will ask what additional information is necessary in order to describe the socio-cultural and institutional framework of art-production and -presentation. Is it expedient to save and add as much further details as possible? Do we have to make strict choices in order to avoid an information overkill? And if so, what are meaningful criteria? What different kinds of additional information do exist, and what can we achieve by adding them to the content of a media art data base? What are the arguments of different protagonists like artists, academics, curators?

with Gerd Zillner (basis Wien); Julien Masanès (europarchive.org); Jean Gagnon (Daniel Langlois Foundation)

2. Community vs Institution
Moderation: Andreas Hirsch / Ingrid Fischer

This workshop will center around the following questions:
How can a community establishing its own archive beyond any institutional structure? How can Social Software foster such a community-driven approach and help develop innovative strategies of „group self-archiving“?
What are the potential / limitations for user-generated descriptions / metadata of works of art / documentations of art works in order to improve access to online archives? How to merge new and traditional tools to improve description / searchability?

with Olga Goriunova (runme.org); Marisa Olson (rhizome.org); Dominik Chen (ICC Tokyo)

3. experience and authenticity
Moderation: Katja Kwastek / Dieter Daniels

This section will focus on the ambivalence between the historicity of the work/project and the need for actualization and translation to enable its adequate experience. If – especially in time based art – the actual experience of the work by its audience is regarded as critical, the question arises in how far it can be preserved not only as documentation but also as potential for actual experience. May an actualization, re-enactment or translation of the work to the contemporary context and technology provide a more adequate experience of the work than the extensive documentation of its historic presentation and reception contexts? How do artists, curators, researchers and archivists balance the quest for historical authenticity and contemporary perceivability? Which role can digital archives and platforms play within this context?

with Inke Arns (Hartware MedienKunstVerein) Gabriella Giannachi (University of Exeter), Daniel Teruggi (Institut National de l’Audiovisuel); Gunther Reisinger (LBI Medien.Kunst.Forschung)