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Preserving and exhibiting media art : challenges and perspectives
Title
Preserving and exhibiting media art : challenges and perspectives / Julia Noordegraaf, Cosetta G. Saba, Barbara Le Maître and Vinzenz Hediger (eds.).
ISBN
9789089642912 (paper)
9089642919 (paper)
Publication
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2013]
Physical Description
428 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Summary
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.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 10, 2015
Series
Framing film
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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, Jürgen 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 / Jürgen 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 Païni and Programming at the Cinémathèque française at the Turn of the Centenary / Stéphanie-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 Maître
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 Noël 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 / Térésa 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 Noël De Tilly
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