Digital Media Art in the Upper Rhine Valley.
Conservation – Restoration – Sustainability
 
Symposium I

The Digital Oblivion.
Substance and ethics in the conservation of computer-based art
ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 04.-05.11.2010

As part of the EU-funded research project digital art conservation, this international symposium aims to investigate the future of our digital cultural memory, focusing in particular on the preservation of computer-based art.

For a couple of decades now, digitization has allowed the content of cultural memory to be more easily processed and circulated. However, the preservation of digital content is fundamentally conditioned by the need to conform to an ever more rapid sequence of new technical systems. This functional obsolescence presents a systemic threat to digital cultural memory, which has rendered the traditional criteria of longevity and authenticity ineffective. Read more »

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Programme

Opening

weibel
Peter Weibel:
Opening words (DE)
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serexhe
Bernhard Serexhe:
Introduction: On the systemic change of cultural memory and digital art conservation (DE)
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Session I CULTURAL MEMORY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
belting
Edmond Couchot:
Historical time and uchronic time (FR)
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zielinski
Siegfried Zielinski:
An-Archives, Genealogies, Variantologies (DE)
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belting
Hans Belting:
Butterfly Nets (DE)
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Session II PARADIGM SHIFT IN CULTURAL HERITAGE TRANSFER
scheuermann
Ingrid Scheurmann:
Heritage value discourses. Current theoretical discussions on the preservation of cultural heritage (DE)
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weschenfelder
Klaus Weschenfelder:
Museum and Amnesia. An attempt at an appraisal (DE)
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huber
Hans-Dieter Huber:
From new media to old media: unclear concepts, complex problems, open questions (DE)
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depocas
Alain Depocas:
Documentation and preservation of media art: evolution of approaches and methods (FR)
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Session III ARTIST STATEMENTS
muntadas
Antoni Muntadas:
Formats, strategies, interpretations and translations (EN)
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franke
Herbert W. Franke:
The legacy of Indiana Jones (DE)
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Session IV PRODUCING AND PRESERVING IN EVERYDAY EXHIBITION-MAKING
gomez
Rosina Gomez-Baeza Tinturé:
Conserving and archiving media art (EN)
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weibel
Peter Weibel:
Towards a material history of media (DE)
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parkhomenko
Daria Parkhomenko:
Multimedia in Russia: from rebuilt to restarts (EN)
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Session VI APPROACHES FOR THE FUTURE
Panel discussion:
Hans Belting, Christoph Blase, Renate Buschmann, Alain Depocas, Rosina Gomez-Baeza Tinturé, Siegfried Zielinski.

Moderator: Johannes Gfeller
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