The initial phase of the project has been launched in January 2021 and is planned for 18 months.
The project responds to the problem of under-representation of media arts and culture in heritage institutions in V4 countries. Historians, curators, artists have long recognised video art, digital art, sound art, internet art, interactive installations, and digital culture artefacts as an important phenomenon of recent era. However, the legacy of these works is largely limited to art professionals. The artefacts are almost absent in museum collections and pioneering works from the 1970s & 80s are largely unknown to general public. The main reason for this is the lack of expertise for their preservation in the V4 instutions and the absence of a methodology for technical and administrative handling of the artworks.
The aim of the project is to find workable methods for heritage institutions to build and maintain collections of media arts, which are necessary for safeguarding this area for the benefit of society. The main intention is to build expertise based on practical experience and to publish a number of case studies on selected new media artworks. Many collaborators from various fields – theorists, curators, conservators, artists and technical experts from partner institutions and beyond – are involved in their creation.
The project is supported by the
International Visegrad Fund.
