Transformation Digital Art 2017
The second International symposium on the preservation of digital art.
In the scope of the collaborative research project Future Proof Media Art with Dutch media artist Geert Mul, in which LI-MA researched software-based artworks and interactive media artworks by Mul, the two-day symposium Transformation Digital Art 2017 took place on 8 and 9 February at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
After the first Transformation Digital Art symposium in 2016 and the documentary film Digital Art who Cares? in cooperation with the Foundation for the Conservation of Contemporary Art and the Dutch Museums, LI-MA continued its research in 2017. New insights and the next steps were presented during the symposium under subtitle FUTURE PROOF!?.
This year has seen developments based on previous research conducted by LI-MA and several partners on digital artworks from various artists and collections, practical protocols, sustainable storage, and recently documentation strategies for software and interactivity. Archiving strategies for media artists were also explored. International state-of-the-art methodologies and technologies were presented and discussed during the symposium in a programme that consisted of keynotes, workshops and panel discussions.
Transformation Digital Art 2017. Photo by Jose Miguel Biscaya.
Transformation Digital Art 2017 included contributions by the following participants: Geert Mul (artist) Jon Ippolito (Professor of New Media, University of Maine), Jochem Van Der Spek (artist), Sabine Himmelsbach (HeK, Basel), Rachel Somers Miles (LI-MA), Julia Noordegraaf (University of Amsterdam), Claudia Röck (NACCA), Tjarda de Haan (Amsterdam Museum), Tom Ensom (King’s College, London), Klaus Rechert (University of Freiburg), Patrícia Falcão (UK, Tate Modern), Florian Cramer (NL, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences), Annet Dekker (University of Amsterdam), Eef Masson (University of Amsterdam), Marcel Ras (NCDD), Ward Janssen (MOTI), Lara Garcia Diaz (LIMA), Gaby Wijers (LI-MA), Josef (Seppo) Gründler (FH Joanneum, Graz), Sandra Fauconnier (Art Historian and Active Wikipedian), and Nina van Doren (Researcher LI-MA).
See the hand-out with detailed information about the contributors.
This project is made possible by the generous support of Creative Industries Fund NL and the municipality of Rotterdam.
