{"id":227,"date":"2011-10-26T22:15:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T05:15:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/amaha\/?page_id=227"},"modified":"2011-11-23T03:36:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-23T10:36:36","slug":"an-international-declaration-for-media-arts-organisation","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.unsw.edu.au\/amaha\/media-art-histories-archive-roundtable\/an-international-declaration-for-media-arts-organisation\/","title":{"rendered":"An International Declaration for Media Arts Organisation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Media Art Needs Global Networked Organisation & Support<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

An International Declaration<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

versi\u00f3n en espa\u00f1ol<\/a> <\/strong><\/em>versione italiana<\/a>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

State of Affairs<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Digital technology has fundamentally changed the way art is made. Over
\nthe last forty years, Media Art has become a significant part of our
\nnetworked information society. Although there are well-attended
\ninternational festivals, collaborative research projects, exhibitions
\nand database documentation resources, Media Art research is still
\nmarginal in universities, museums and archives. It remains largely
\nunder-resourced in our core cultural institutions.<\/p>\n

As a result of rapid changes in technology, many major works made even
\n10 years ago can no longer be shown or are disappearing without a trace.
\nIf this situation is not addressed, we face losing an art form that is a
\ncentral part of our post-industrial digital culture. To date, systematic
\nglobal preservation and documentation campaigns do not exist.<\/p>\n

Many important online documentation and research projects are also
\ndisappearing from the web. As they falter, we risk losing their valuable
\nmaterial forever. Contemporary scientific research relies on access to
\nshared data. The same is true of the Arts and Humanities, which lack a
\nconcerted international policy for sustainability and support of the
\ndigital heritage, such as exists partly in the natural sciences.<\/p>\n

Several science disciplines have developed large collective projects to
\naddress the challenges and opportunities of our time by way of networked
\ndigital environments, based on a sustainable and international support
\nstructure. International Media Art research needs similar global
\norganisation and collaboration.<\/p>\n

Goals<\/strong><\/h2>\n

a.) Establish international and sustainable funding structures<\/p>\n

Therefore it is essential to establish international and sustainable
\nfunding structures that can guarantee the persistence of these valuable
\nresources, and to make use of networked collaboration to archive key
\ndata in a cooperative process of knowledge transfer between artists,
\ninstitutions and researchers internationally. While many nations are
\ndevoting funds for interdisciplinary e-research, we urgently need global
\nnetworked collaboration in Media Art research.<\/p>\n

Such an international structure\/alliance needs the actively supported
\nmembership of media art organisations, archives and individuals. It
\nshould be supported with adequate funding and expertise from the
\nexisting networks of funding agencies, archives, online initiatives and
\nresearch institutions.<\/p>\n

b.) Supporting an International Association\/Institution for Shared Data<\/p>\n

We urgently need global networked collaboration in Media Art research
\nacross the aforementioned networks. We need as many bridges into society
\nas possible: archives, conferences, text repositories, collective
\ndatabase documentation, and preservation.<\/p>\n

This alliance will promote collaboration and advocate the
\nsustainability, understanding and appreciation of media art heritage by:<\/p>\n

  • Recognizing and building upon existing knowledge and resources<\/li>\n
  • Providing and fostering channels of communication<\/li>\n
  • Enabling the international research community to create\/upload\/access data to be shared.<\/li>\n
  • Encouraging peer exchange and addressing the new challenges of\u00a0Media Art<\/li>\n
  • Developing scientific technologies for documentation and\u00a0preservation of Media Art<\/li>\n
  • Providing inspiration and resources for curators, artists,\u00a0scholars, educators and audiences<\/li>\n
  • Supporting the Media Art History network, its conference series,\u00a0text repositories and scientific publications<\/li>\n
  • Promotion of new ways of understanding media art, science,\u00a0technology and its histories<\/li>\n

    Only when we develop systematic strategies to address these challenges
    \nwill we be able to fulfill the task that digital culture and its research
    \ndemands of us in the 21st Century.<\/p>\n

    Signing Instructions<\/strong><\/h2>\n

    Governments, universities, research institutions, researchers, artists,
    \nacademics, funding agencies, foundations, libraries, museums, archives,
    \nlearned societies and professional associations who share the vision
    \nexpressed in this Declaration are invited to join the signatories that
    \nhave already signed the Declaration.<\/p>\n

    Please add your name,\u00a0 institution\/affiliation, country in the\u00a0box below.<\/p>\n

    October 2011<\/em><\/p>\n

    Signatories<\/h3>\n

    Sean Cubitt, Winchester School of Art, Southampton, UK
    \nOliver Grau, Danube University Krems, Austria
    \nRoss Harley, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    \nChristiane Paul, The New School, New York, USA
    \nDiana Domingues, Universidade de Bras\u00edlia, Brazil
    \nLanfranco Aceti, Goldsmiths and Sabanci University, UK and Turkey
    \nVanina Hofman, Taxonomedia, Argentina \/ Spain
    \nFrieder Nake, University of Bremen, Germany
    \nAnna Munster, National Institute for Experimental Arts, Sydney, Australia
    \nDarko Fritz, freelance curator, researcher and artist, Croatia \/ Netherlands
    \nLisa Gye, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia
    \nRoy Ascott, University of Plymouth, UK
    \nIanina Prudenko, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
    \nMartin Warnke, Leuphana University, Germany
    \nMike Stubbs, FACT Liverpool, UK
    \nStephen Jones, Stephen Jones & Associates P\/L (Video Conservation), Sydney, Australia.
    \nAndy Williamson, Digital Strategist and Commentator, UK
    \nWinnie Fu, Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong
    \nStephen Partridge, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee, UK
    \nPaul Thomas, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    \nAlessandro Ludovico, Neural, Italy
    \nVince Dziekan, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
    \nDarren Tofts, Swinburne University, Melbourne Australia
    \nItsuo Sakane, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Tokyo, Japan
    \nLev Manovich, University of California, San Diego, USA
    \nZHANG Ga, The New School \/ Tsinghua University, US and China
    \nMichele Barker, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    \nAndreas Lange, Computerspielemuseum, Berlin, Germany
    \nNina Czegledy, University of Toronto, Canada
    \nPau Alsina Gonz\u00e1lez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
    \nMikel Rotaeche y Gonz\u00e1lez de Ubieta, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof\u00eda, Madrid, Spain
    \nNelson Vergara, National University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
    \nGabriela Baldom\u00e1, Instituto de Investigaci\u00f3n, Conservaci\u00f3n y Restauraci\u00f3n de Arte Moderno y Contempor\u00e1neo, Argentina
    \nRyszard W. Kluszczynski, University of Lodz, Poland
    \nRaivo Kelomees, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
    \nMike Leggett, Creativity & Cognition Studios, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
    \nAnne-Marie Duguet, University of Paris 1, Paris, France
    \nWill Straw, Department of Art History and Communications Studies, McGill University, Canada.
    \nSteve Dietz, Northern Lights.mn, USA
    \nDmitry Bulatov, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad branch, Russia
    \nGunalan Nadarajan, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, USA
    \nMaurice Benayoun, University Paris 8, Paris, France
    \nCleomar Rocha, Universidade Federal de Goi\u00e1s, Goi\u00e2nia, Brasil
    \nAkihiro Kubota, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
    \nAndres Burbano, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
    \nEric Kluitenberg, Chief of Tactical Media Files, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
    \nEdward A. Shanken, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
    \nAndreia Magalhaes, Fine Arts Faculty, Porto, Portugal
    \nFelipe Cesar Londo\u00f1o, International Image Festival, University of Caldas, Colombia.
    \nFrank Popper, University of Paris VIII, Paris, France
    \nCaitlin Fisher, York University, Toronto, Canada
    \nTimothy Conway Murray, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, Cornell University, New York
    \nDouglas Kahn, National Institute for Experimental Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
    \nBaruch Gottlieb, transmediale, Germany
    \nAngel Kalenberg, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno (IVAM), Spain
    \nRafael Lozano-Hemmer, independent artist, Mexico, Madrid, Montreal
    \nAndreas Broeckmann, Leuphana Arts Program, Germany
    \nJeffrey Shaw, City University Hong Kong School of Creative Media, Hong Kong
    \nOlga Shishko, MediaArtLab, Information & Research Center for New Media Art and Culture, Moscow, Russia
    \nLars Gustaf, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    \nEduardo Kac, Arts Institute Chicago, Chicago, USA
    \nPeter Weibel, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
    \nChrista Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau, University of Art and Design, Linz, Austria<\/p>\n

    The list of signatories continues on the Media Art History site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    To add your signature send an email to wendy.coones@donau-uni.ac.at<\/p>\n

    [contact-form 1 “Contact form 1”]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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