Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art : Challenges and Perspectives Challenges and Perspectives

This vibrantly illustrated introduction to the emerging field of the preservation and presentation of media art brings together the contributions of authors from all over Europe and the United States. This volume can serve as a textbook for students in advanced degree programs in media art and museum studies, as well as an invaluable introduction for general readers. A potent combination of incisive scholarly articles and focused case studies, Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art offers a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and practical skills of preserving media art. Content: Acknowledgements -- Introduction / Julia Noordegraaf -- Part I. History, Archaeology, Aesthetics, Archive: Theoretical Paths -- Introduction / Vinzenz Hediger -- 1. Between Art History and Media History: A Brief Introduction to Media Art / Chris Wahl -- 2. Media Archaeology: Where Film History, Media Art, and New Media (Can) Meet / Wanda Strauven -- 3. Media Aesthetics / Dario Marchiori -- 4. Media Art and the Digital Archive / Cosetta G. Saba -- Part II. Analysis, Documentation, Archiving -- Introduction / Julia Noordegraaf -- 5. The Analysis of the Artwork / Dario Marchiori -- 6. Methodologies of Multimedial Documentation and Archiving -- 6.1. Enjoying the Gap: Comparing Contemporary Documentation Strategies / Annet Dekker -- 6.2. Case Study: No Ghost Just a Shell by Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, and Many Others / Vivian Van Saaze -- 6.3. The Artist's Interview as a Tool for Documenting and Recreating a Complex Installation: The Example of Mbube, an Audio-Installation by Roberto Cuoghi in the Museo Del Novecento, Milan / Iolanda Ratti -- 6.4. MAXXI Pilot Tests Regarding the Documentation of Installation Art / Alessandra Barbuto, Laura Barreca -- Part III. Technological Platforms, Preservation, and Restoration -- Introduction / Cosetta G. Saba -- 7. Technological Platforms -- Introduction / Simone Venturini -- 7.1. The History and Technological Characteristics of Cinematographic Production and Reception Devices / Simone Venturini, Mirco Santi -- 7.2. The History and Technological Characteristics of Video Production and Reception Devices / Alessandro Bordina -- 7.3. Computers and Digital Reception Devices: History and Technological Characteristics / Tabea Lurk, Jorgen Enge -- 74. Obsolete Equipment: Ethics and Practices of Media Art Conservation / Gaby Wijers -- 8. Theories, Techniques, Decision-making Models: The European Context -- 8.1. Operational Practices for a Film and Video Preservation and Restoration Protocol / Alessandro Bordina, Simone Venturini -- 8.2. Operational Practices for a Digital Preservation and Restoration Protocol / Jorgen Enge, Tabea Lurk -- 8.3. Case Study: The Conservation of Media Art at Tate: An Interview with Pip Laurenson (Head of Time-Based Media Conservation at Tate) / Julia Noordegraaf -- Part IV. Access, Reuse, and Exhibition -- Introduction / Barbara Le Maitre -- 9. Exhibition Strategies -- Introduction / Barbara Le Maitre, Senta Siewert -- 9.1. From Cinema to the Museum: A State of Affairs -- 9.1.1. A "Cinema Effect" in Contemporary Art / Philippe Dubois -- 9.2. Exhibiting Images in Movement -- 9.2.1. Exhibiting/Editing: Dominique Pa̐ni and Programming at the Ciňmatḧque fraṅaise at the Turn of the Centenary / Sťphanie-Emmanuelle Louis -- 9.2.2. The Expanded Archive: The MindFrames exhibition / Claudia D'alonzo -- 9.2.3. Exhibiting Film and Reinventing the Painting / Barbara Le Ma̋tre -- 9.3. The Image Traveling across Territories: Cinema, Video, TV, Museum, the Web, and beyond -- 9.3.1. On Passages Between Art and Cinema / Ariane No︠l De Tilly -- 9.3.2. Across the Territories: Exhibiting Music Video / Senta Siewert -- 9.3.3. Developing, Presenting, and Documenting Unstable Media at V2_ / Arie Altena -- 9.4. New Dispositifs, New Modes of Reception -- 9.4.1. Video Installations as Experiences in Montage / Ťřsa Faucon -- 9.4.2. From the Film to the Map: Patrick Keiller and The City of the Future / Teresa Castro -- 9.4.3. Site-specific Exhibition and Reexhibition Strategies: Max Neuhaus's Times Square / Elena Biserna -- 9.4.4. From Archival Model to Exhibition Platform? Video Art As a Web Resource and the imai Online Catalogue / Renate Buschmann -- 10. On Curating New Media Art / Sarah Cook -- Epilogue / Julia Nooroegraaf, Ariane No︠l De Tilly -- List of contributors -- Index. This important and first-of-its-kind collection addresses the emerging challenges in the field of media art preservation and exhibition, providing an outline for the training of professionals in this field. Since the emergence of time-based media such as film, video and digital technology, artists have used them to experiment with their potential. The resulting artworks, with their basis in rapidly developing technologies that cross over into other domains such as broadcasting and social media, have challenged the traditional infrastructures for the collection, preservation and exhibition of art. Addressing these challenges, the authors provide a historical and theoretical survey of the field, and introduce students to the challenges and difficulties of preserving and exhibiting media art through a series of first-hand case studies. Situated at the threshold between archival practices and film and media theory, it also makes a strong contribution to the growing literature on archive theory and archival practices. Artists have always experimented with the potentials film, video and digital technology. 'Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art' highlights the challenges these new multimedia works pose to the traditional ways of collecting, preserving and exhibiting art. In addition, it outlines several case studies through the contours of the training and education of professionals in this field. The book offers a historical and theoretical overview and makes an important contribution to the literature on archival theory and practice and is a reference point for anyone concerned with the preservation and presentation of media art This vibrantly illustrated introduction to the emerging field of the preservation and presentation of media art brings together the contributions of authors from all over Europe and the United States. This volume can serve as a textbook for students in advanced degree programs in media art and museum studies, as well as an invaluable introduction for general readers. A potent combination of incisive scholarly articles and focused case studies, __Preserving and Exhibiting Media Art__ offers a comprehensive overview of the history, theory, and practical skills of preserving media art.

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