4th Summit on New Media Art Archiving: Preliminary Programme
June 25 & 26 2024, @ ISEA2024 Brisbane, Australia
The 4th SNMAA will be part of the 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2024 (June 21-29). For the programme of ISEA2024 (under development) see https://isea2024.isea-international.org/program.
The preliminary programme of the 4th Summit on New Media Art Archiving is below, organised by category, not presentation order. Please note that a number of the presenters will present from remote places via video conferencing.
Tuesday June 25
Opening: Meet the Team: a (very) short intro to the co-operating archives for the Summits on New Media Art Archiving
Papers (long)
- Media Archiving Tradition: Algorithmic Analysis and Preservation of Geometric Patterns in Historical Architectural Monuments by Selcuk Artut (TR)
- Re-enactment, Users Manuals and DNA Storage: methods for media art preservation by Louise Curham (AU)
- Documenting the Ephemeral: Strategies for Preserving Early Internet Art by Ze Gao (HK), presented by Zheng Wang (SG)
- Latin American MediaArt: Political dimensions of the archive of the International Image Festival by Caerols Mateo & Raquel Raquel (ES)
- An Interdisciplinary Practice-based Research on Constructing Techno-Art Cloud Exhibition Platform by Chih-Yung Chiu (TW)
- DAFNE+: Blockchain for preservation and valorization of experimental music and sound production by Gregory Beller (FR)
Papers (short)
- Integrating LLMs and RAG for Improved Usability in Multimedia Archives by Sean Carroll (UK)
- Deep Learning Algorithms as Potential Solutions to Challenges in Video Art Preservation by John HoFung Chow & Sam Chan (HK)
- New Animation Art: The History and Evolution of Computer Animation at Prix Ars Electronica by Jürgen Hagler (AT)
Archive Presentations
- Ars Electronica Archive Relaunch by Christina Radner (AT)
- The Computer Arts Society and Computer Arts Archive by Sean Clark & Paul Brown (UK/AU)
- The Immersive Archive by Zeynep Abes, Nathan Fairchild (presenters), Michael Wahba, Katrina Xiao, Spencer Lin, Scott Fisher (US)
Panels
- SNMAA Sustainability Panel with Violeta Vojvodic Balaz (RS), Wim van der Plas (NL), Terry Wong (HK/CA), Bonnie Mitchell (US), Janice Searleman (US), Byeongwon Ha (KR/US) Moderator: Oliver Grau (AT)
- Archiving Australian Media Arts of the 1990s: Towards a method and a national collection with Helen Stuckey, Cynde Moya, Candice Cranmer, Xanthe Dobbie & Troy Innocent
Wednesday June 26
- Special Panel Session, organised by ISEA2024/4th SNMAA:
The Heritage of the Pioneers, with Peter Beyls (BE), Keisuke Oki (JP), Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau (AT/FR) and Stelarc (AU), moderated by Melanie Swallwell (AU)
Other ISEA2024 Presentations Related to Archiving:
- ISEA Symposia in Australia: Past, Present and Future (1992, 2013 & 2024) by Terry C. Wong
- An Immersive, Interactive Journey Back in Time: Traversing SIGGRAPH’s 50th Conference History Exhibition and Events by Bonnie Mitchell, Kon Hyong Kim, Yamin Xu & Terry C. W. Wong
- A Short History of the International Symposium on Electronic Art by Wim van der Plas
The 4th Summit on New Media Art Archiving is organised by a team representing the archives of ISEA, SIGGRAPH, ZKM, ADA, FILE, Memoduct and others and is endorsed by Ars Electronica, in close co-operation with ISEA2024.
Prof. a.D. Dr. habil. Dr. hc Oliver Grau
Director ARCHIVE OF DIGITAL ART (ADA) www.archive-digitalart.eu
International Society for MediaArtHistories (MAST) Wien / Berlin www.mediaarthistories.org
Academia.edu https://ae-eu.academia.edu/OliverGrau
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