Convened by Ross Harley and Paul Thomas

Invited participants: Andy Williamson, Berryl Graham, Darren Tofts, Frieder Nake, Theresa Schubert-Minski, Kuljit  Chuhan, Lanfranco Aceti, Lisa Gye, Martin Warnke, Maximilian Schich, Mike Stubbs, Oliver Grau, Pip Laurenson, Sean Cubitt, Stephen Jones, Wendy Coones, Doug Dodds

How can we frame local and national media art archives in an international context?

We would like to invite you to participate in a roundtable discussion focusing on issues central to the ongoing operation of media art history databases and archives around the world. This workshop will take place under the auspices of RE:WIRE, the Fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology  to be held in Liverpool September 28-30 October 1 2011.

The purpose of the roundtable is to bring together international specialists working in the field to share their experience and exchange ideas on best practices in online databases and virtual archives for media arts. The roundtable forms part of a joint project between the Department for Image Science at the Danube University Krems (led by Prof Oliver Grau), and the Australian Research Council (led by Ross Harley, Sean Cubitt, Anna Munster, Michele Barker, Darren Tofts and Paul Thomas). The project aims to establish a web-based platform for the archiving and understanding of historic media art works in an international media art context.

How do we respond to urgent issues such as:

• Persistence, longevity and sustainability of media resources
• Cooperation and interoperability between archive projects
• Translating variable media standards into curatorial practice
• Negotiating permissions culture
• Dealing with problems of data migration

 

NB There are limited spaces available for this roundtable.