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NEW MEDIA MUSEUMS:
Creating Framework for Preserving and Collecting Media Arts in V4
The project NEW MEDIA MUSEUMS: Creating Framework for Preserving and Collecting Media Arts in V4 was initiated by the Olomouc Museum of Art as a joint international platform for sharing experience with building and maintaining collections of new media artworks across different types of institutions. It includes organizations from the independent sector focusing on presenting and promoting new media art as well as heritage institutions from Czechia, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary. The initial phase of the project has been launched in January 2021 and is planned for 18 months.
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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.
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.
News
New Media Museums Proceedings
30 Wrzesień 2022
At the end of the two-year project New Media Museums that focused on research in the field of collecting and preserving new media, a comprehensive Reader is published together with other outputs that present various ways of caring for new media in five partner institutions (Olomouc Museum of Art, Slovak National Gallery, WRO Art Center, PAF Olomouc, C3 - Center for Culture and Communication). The publication is supplemented by contributions from experts in the field of new media preservation (Michal Klodner, National Film Archive, Zuzana Bauerová...). The complete publication, including all outputs of the project, can be found at newmediamuseumsproceedings.cead.space.
New Media Museums Colloquium: Collecting and Preserving Media Arts - Program and Video Documentation
24 Marzec 2022
Olomouc Museum of Art & CEAD.space
present
New Media Museums Colloquium:
Collecting and Preserving Media Arts
24 - 25 March 2022
Olomouc Museum of Art, Archdiocesan Museum
Mozarteum Hall
Václavské náměstí 811, Olomouc, CZ
Video and installation have become a staple of artistic practice in recent decades. Working with sound and digital media is also increasingly common. Intermedia and new media, which previously had the status of separate genres, are now a common means of expression for contemporary artists. The importance and significance of this work as cultural heritage has been recognised in major exhibitions as well as in contemporary art history. Compared to painting and sculpture, these works are often more compact and portable, but their representation in public collections is generally marginal. As a result, it is not at all clear that the time-based and installation art of this period will remain accessible to future generations.
A key obstacle in collecting media arts for many museums and organisations is limited expertise in its preservation. Many agree that documentation is key, but the relevant methods and procedures remain ambiguous. Collaboration across professions and departments is also crucial, since reinstallations of these works in galleries rely on the input of the artist, as well as curators, conservators, restorers, technical staff, and outside experts. At the same time, it is often unclear who should be responsible for the care of digital materials, electrical objects, and other unstable components. It remains a challenge to establish and maintain appropriate procedures and strategies that give institutions confidence in collecting media and installation art.
The New Media Museums project aims to address these challenges by creating a platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration in the presentation, collection and preservation of media arts and culture. Our founding members include art museums and organisations working in this field in Central Europe. The colloquium is the culmination of the pilot phase, where partners will present their ongoing work, shaped by the exchange within the platform. In order to broaden the discussion, representatives of other key institutions in the region and beyond have been invited to share their experiences as well as the challenges they face in building and maintaining media collections.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 24 March 2022
10:00 Welcome
Ondřej Zatloukal, Director of Olomouc Museum of Art
Gina Renotière, Head of Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, President of ICOM Czech Republic
Dušan Barok, New Media Museums coordinator
10:15 Invited lecture 1
"Networks of Care"
Anna Schäffler, art historian and curator, Berlin
(remote participation)
10:55 New Media Museums case studies, panel 1
Presentations, followed by Q&A.
"What's lying on the shelf? – What should have been done before the acquisition and what is to be done now?"
Jakub Frank, Curator of the Collection of New Media and Intermedia, Olomouc Museum of Art
Petr Válek, artist
"On the Silver Globe: From a Vintage Print Photography to a Complex Media Installation. Re-contextualisation as Preservation Strategy"
Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka, WRO Art Center
Dagmara Domagała, WRO Art Center
(remote participation)
"Versions or Fragmented Works? Reconstruction Issues of Media Art Installations and Net Art Works"
Anna Tüdős, C3 Foundation
Márta Czene, C3 Foundation
"Reading the PAF"
Martin Mazanec, Curator, PAF, and Pedagogue, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology
Nela Klajbanová, Curator, PAF
"You Can't Buy a Butterfly. New Methods for Registering Acquisitions of Intermedia Artworks"
Lucia Gregorová Stach, Chief Curator, Curator of the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Slovak National Gallery
Mária Bohumelová, Director, Research and Development Department, Slovak National Gallery
13:20-14:20 Lunch break
14:20 Invited lecture 2
"Shaping Institutional Strategies for Collecting Media Art at M+ Hong Kong"
Aga Wielocha, Bern University of the Arts, formerly conservator at M+ Museum Hong Kong
15:20 Museum Practices in Collecting Intermedia and New Media, panel 2
Presentations, followed by Q&A.
"New Media Works from the 1990s in the Collection of the Prague City Gallery"
Jitka Hlaváčková, Curator of the Photography and New Media Collection, Prague City Gallery
"Nm 1-001 - Nm 458: The Youngest Collection at National Gallery Prague"
Eva Skopalová, Curator, Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery Prague
"Collecting and Presenting Video Installations from the 1990s: a Visionary Move in the 90s, Essential Today. The First Museum of Intermedia and the Collection of Intermedia Art in The Museum of Art Žilina"
Mira Sikorová, Director and Curator of the First Museum of Intermedia, The Museum of Art Žilina
"Addressing Sustainability Issues in Time-based Media Art Collection and Preservation Strategies"
Jina Chang, Time-based Media Art Conservator, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
"Media and Digital Art Acquisition Workflow at ZKM"
Morgane Stricot, Head of Digital Conservation, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
(remote participation)
Friday 25 March 2022
10:00 Welcome
10:10 Invited lecture 3
"Video Archive: Collection Access and Sustainability Through Collaboration"
Markéta Jonášová, Národní filmový archiv Praha
Michal Klodner, Národní filmový archiv Praha
Matĕj Strnad, Národní filmový archiv Praha
10:55 Collecting and Preserving Video Art and Moving Image, panel 3
Presentations, followed by Q&A.
"The Activities and History of the n.b.k. Video-Forum since 1971"
Anna Lena Seiser, Managing Director, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), and Head, n.b.k. Video-Forum Berlin
"Exhibiting Practices of Archival Film Materials in Non-cinema Environments"
Elzbieta Wysocka, Department of Film studies and Digitisation, National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute, Poland
"Vasulka Digital Archive"
Kateřina Drajsajtlová, Archive, Vasulka Kitchen Brno
"Videokunstarkivet: the Norwegian Video Art Archive, the First Ten Years"
Håvard Oppøyen, Videokunstarkivet, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
(remote participation)
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30 Collecting and Preserving Video Art and Moving Image, roundtable
Roundtable with onsite participants of the colloquium sharing experiences and challenges
Held at Flora Exhibition Centre (Hall G),
Organised in collaboration with PAF festival.
The colloquium will take place on-site, in the Mozarteum Hall, with the exception of the closing roundtable (14.00-15.30), which will be held at the Flora Exhibition Centre (Hall G) and is organised in collaboration with the PAF Festival.
The programme will be streamed live on the website http://www.CEAD.space.
The working language is English and the talks will be simultaneously interpreted into Czech.
Admission is free.
The colloquium programme was prepared by Dušan Barok in collaboration with Jakub Frank, coordinators of the New Media Museums project.
Technical support: Kamil Zajíček, Tomáš Jurníček, Jiří Schnapka.
In cooperation with: Barbora Kundračíková, Michal Šedivý, Jana Kovaříková.
Founding project partners: Olomouc Museum of Art, Slovak National Gallery, WRO Art Center, C3 Foundation, PAF Olomouc
The project is supported by the International Visegrad Fund.
http://newmediamuseums.cead.space
present
New Media Museums Colloquium:
Collecting and Preserving Media Arts
24 - 25 March 2022
Olomouc Museum of Art, Archdiocesan Museum
Mozarteum Hall
Václavské náměstí 811, Olomouc, CZ
Video and installation have become a staple of artistic practice in recent decades. Working with sound and digital media is also increasingly common. Intermedia and new media, which previously had the status of separate genres, are now a common means of expression for contemporary artists. The importance and significance of this work as cultural heritage has been recognised in major exhibitions as well as in contemporary art history. Compared to painting and sculpture, these works are often more compact and portable, but their representation in public collections is generally marginal. As a result, it is not at all clear that the time-based and installation art of this period will remain accessible to future generations.
A key obstacle in collecting media arts for many museums and organisations is limited expertise in its preservation. Many agree that documentation is key, but the relevant methods and procedures remain ambiguous. Collaboration across professions and departments is also crucial, since reinstallations of these works in galleries rely on the input of the artist, as well as curators, conservators, restorers, technical staff, and outside experts. At the same time, it is often unclear who should be responsible for the care of digital materials, electrical objects, and other unstable components. It remains a challenge to establish and maintain appropriate procedures and strategies that give institutions confidence in collecting media and installation art.
The New Media Museums project aims to address these challenges by creating a platform for knowledge exchange and collaboration in the presentation, collection and preservation of media arts and culture. Our founding members include art museums and organisations working in this field in Central Europe. The colloquium is the culmination of the pilot phase, where partners will present their ongoing work, shaped by the exchange within the platform. In order to broaden the discussion, representatives of other key institutions in the region and beyond have been invited to share their experiences as well as the challenges they face in building and maintaining media collections.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 24 March 2022
10:00 Welcome
Ondřej Zatloukal, Director of Olomouc Museum of Art
Gina Renotière, Head of Division of Modern and Contemporary Art, President of ICOM Czech Republic
Dušan Barok, New Media Museums coordinator
10:15 Invited lecture 1
"Networks of Care"
Anna Schäffler, art historian and curator, Berlin
(remote participation)
10:55 New Media Museums case studies, panel 1
Presentations, followed by Q&A.
"What's lying on the shelf? – What should have been done before the acquisition and what is to be done now?"
Jakub Frank, Curator of the Collection of New Media and Intermedia, Olomouc Museum of Art
Petr Válek, artist
"On the Silver Globe: From a Vintage Print Photography to a Complex Media Installation. Re-contextualisation as Preservation Strategy"
Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka, WRO Art Center
Dagmara Domagała, WRO Art Center
(remote participation)
"Versions or Fragmented Works? Reconstruction Issues of Media Art Installations and Net Art Works"
Anna Tüdős, C3 Foundation
Márta Czene, C3 Foundation
"Reading the PAF"
Martin Mazanec, Curator, PAF, and Pedagogue, Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology
Nela Klajbanová, Curator, PAF
"You Can't Buy a Butterfly. New Methods for Registering Acquisitions of Intermedia Artworks"
Lucia Gregorová Stach, Chief Curator, Curator of the Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Slovak National Gallery
Mária Bohumelová, Director, Research and Development Department, Slovak National Gallery
13:20-14:20 Lunch break
14:20 Invited lecture 2
"Shaping Institutional Strategies for Collecting Media Art at M+ Hong Kong"
Aga Wielocha, Bern University of the Arts, formerly conservator at M+ Museum Hong Kong
15:20 Museum Practices in Collecting Intermedia and New Media, panel 2
Presentations, followed by Q&A.
"New Media Works from the 1990s in the Collection of the Prague City Gallery"
Jitka Hlaváčková, Curator of the Photography and New Media Collection, Prague City Gallery
"Nm 1-001 - Nm 458: The Youngest Collection at National Gallery Prague"
Eva Skopalová, Curator, Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery Prague
"Collecting and Presenting Video Installations from the 1990s: a Visionary Move in the 90s, Essential Today. The First Museum of Intermedia and the Collection of Intermedia Art in The Museum of Art Žilina"
Mira Sikorová, Director and Curator of the First Museum of Intermedia, The Museum of Art Žilina
"Addressing Sustainability Issues in Time-based Media Art Collection and Preservation Strategies"
Jina Chang, Time-based Media Art Conservator, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
"Media and Digital Art Acquisition Workflow at ZKM"
Morgane Stricot, Head of Digital Conservation, ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
(remote participation)
Friday 25 March 2022
10:00 Welcome
10:10 Invited lecture 3
"Video Archive: Collection Access and Sustainability Through Collaboration"
Markéta Jonášová, Národní filmový archiv Praha
Michal Klodner, Národní filmový archiv Praha
Matĕj Strnad, Národní filmový archiv Praha
10:55 Collecting and Preserving Video Art and Moving Image, panel 3
Presentations, followed by Q&A.
"The Activities and History of the n.b.k. Video-Forum since 1971"
Anna Lena Seiser, Managing Director, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.), and Head, n.b.k. Video-Forum Berlin
"Exhibiting Practices of Archival Film Materials in Non-cinema Environments"
Elzbieta Wysocka, Department of Film studies and Digitisation, National Film Archive – Audiovisual Institute, Poland
"Vasulka Digital Archive"
Kateřina Drajsajtlová, Archive, Vasulka Kitchen Brno
"Videokunstarkivet: the Norwegian Video Art Archive, the First Ten Years"
Håvard Oppøyen, Videokunstarkivet, The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo
(remote participation)
13:00-14:30 Lunch break
14:30 Collecting and Preserving Video Art and Moving Image, roundtable
Roundtable with onsite participants of the colloquium sharing experiences and challenges
Held at Flora Exhibition Centre (Hall G),
Organised in collaboration with PAF festival.
The colloquium will take place on-site, in the Mozarteum Hall, with the exception of the closing roundtable (14.00-15.30), which will be held at the Flora Exhibition Centre (Hall G) and is organised in collaboration with the PAF Festival.
The programme will be streamed live on the website http://www.CEAD.space.
The working language is English and the talks will be simultaneously interpreted into Czech.
Admission is free.
The colloquium programme was prepared by Dušan Barok in collaboration with Jakub Frank, coordinators of the New Media Museums project.
Technical support: Kamil Zajíček, Tomáš Jurníček, Jiří Schnapka.
In cooperation with: Barbora Kundračíková, Michal Šedivý, Jana Kovaříková.
Founding project partners: Olomouc Museum of Art, Slovak National Gallery, WRO Art Center, C3 Foundation, PAF Olomouc
The project is supported by the International Visegrad Fund.
http://newmediamuseums.cead.space
Interview between Nela Klajbanová (PAF) and Sylva Poláková (NFA)
22 Listopad 2021
In 2020, Národní filmový archiv launched the Videoarchive project, which responds to the lack of methodological procedures for the long-term care of the moving image. The aim of the project is to create a long-term sustainable strategy for the preservation and accessibility of audiovisual works outside the context of cinema. There are a number of institutions in the Czech Republic that include these works in their collections, but lack sufficient infrastructure and tools to ensure their long-term preservation, as is the case with other media. The issue of the preservation of moving image has long been the subject of much debate in this country. With its research project, Národní filmový archiv envisions collaborating with art collecting institutions and implementing the methods and practices into their collections. Curator Nela Klajbanová interviewed the project's researcher Sylva Poláková. (Artalk.cz, published 22 November 2021) – you can read the interview on this link (CZ).
New Media Art & Archive – discussions online
18 Listopad 2021
What is the difference between archive and collection? How can video tapes be stored safely? Is it possible to replace the original mechanics of the device with a computer algorithm? The series deals with the complex issue of archiving new media works of art in public institutions. It focuses on the full range of activities necessary for the technical protection of the work, its correct interpretation and presentation. It reflects the current Central European situation, but tries to put it in a more general context. The aim is to start a lively discussion platform and share knowledge across institutions. Workshops are thus open not only to students and the professional public but also to interested members of the general public.
NMM: Videoreport | SNG | 21. 9. 2021
21 Wrzesień 2021
The workshop, held at the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava on 21 September 2021, focused on the questions surrounding the acquisition process, documentation of individual complex works, their registration in the system, digital archive and repository, the restoration and care for technical component and equipment, as well as inter-departmental and interdisciplinary collaboration. Reports from the project events may be found on the project website. Video here.
New Media Art & Archive – course at TIM Brno
1 Październik 2021
Theory of Interactive Media at Masaryk University and CEAD.space invite you to the series of online workshops. The overarching theme of the workshops is New Media Art & Archive and it deals with the complex issue of archiving new media artworks in public institutions. It focuses on the full range of activities necessary for the technical protection of the work, its correct interpretation and presentation.
NMM: 2nd workshop is taking place at Slovak National Gallery
21 Wrzesień 2021
The workshop, held at the Slovak National Gallery in Bratislava on 21 September 2021, focuses on the questions surrounding the acquisition process, documentation of individual complex works, their registration in the system, digital archive and repository, the restoration and care for technical component and equipment, as well as inter-departmental and interdisciplinary collaboration. Reports from the project events may be found on our website.
NMM: Report from the first workshop | OMA | 17.–18. 2. 2021
19 Luty 2021
The opening workshop served as an introductory event for the founding partners of the project. Several thematic threads have been inititiated, which we plan to develop throughout the project. In the coming months, the partners will focus on case studies of selected artworks. SNG will also work on the documentation of media-based works in the Central Catalogue of Artworks (published on Webumenia.sk), revising and unifying some of the new-media art terms used in cataloguing. Later this year, another, larger workshop is planned onsite at the Slovak National Gallery. The date remains to be determined.
The complete report can be found on this site.
The complete report can be found on this site.
First preparatory workshop will take place online | OMA | 17.–18. 2. 2021
10 Luty 2021
Representatives of the institutions will gather for a two-day online workshop hosted by OMA, to discuss the issues involved in preserving the artworks and possible institutional challenges to emerge. The event will include presentations of sections of collections relevant for media art context as well as past experiences of the partners from dealing with this genre. The gathering will also be an opportunity to discuss possible cures for adapting infrastructures to care for media-based artworks. The workshop will result in identifying the final set of artworks for case studies as well as particular practical roles and conceptual issues to be examined by each participating institution.
Autorzy
Edward Ihnatowicz (1926 - 1988)
Edward Ihnatowicz (b.1926 in Chełm Lubelski – d.1988 in London) was a London-based artist: sculptor and designer working in cast metal techniques. Working during the peak popularity of cybernetics in the late 60s, Edward Ihnatowicz translated concepts of feedback loop and control engineering into an original form of time-based work of art – cybernetic sculptures. — Anna Olszewska