For all Empyre members: was a pleasure to participate of such a great
discussion here, and I hope to be more often next month!
best
gabrila
On 09/10/2010 17:52, Timothy Murray wrote:
Hello, everyone. As we transition into another special topic, soon
to be introduced by Renate, I want to express my thanks and enthusiasm
for the multilayered discussion of "Archiving New Media: Ephemerality
and/or Sustainability." Particular thanks go to our featured guests,
Vanina Hofman from Taxonomedia, Claudia Kozak and Ricardo dal Farra
from Argentina, Jon Ippolito and Mona Jimenez from the US, and
Gabriela Previdillo from Brazil. When we framed this discussion in
dialogue with the Buenos Aires Taxonomedia conference, we hoped that
the framework of " ephemerality and/or sustainability," would provide
the occasion for reflections on not only the practice of archiving but
also its socio-cultural implications. Particularly welcome, from my
point of view, is the importance of contributions from Latin America
that have made more visible very crucial issues of indigeneity that
bear not only the various platforms of art practice but also on the
politics and institutionalization of archiving itself.
Those of us who have been engaged in institutional archival projects,
such as my Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art, at Cornell
University, continually find ourselves involved in spinning
justifactory narratives regarding the viability of archiving new media
art writ large but also pertaining to the challenges to accessibility
due to obsolescence, etc. One of my greatest lessons from this kind
of work has been an ongoing sensitivity to the extensive variations
of both "new media" and "archive" per se, as well as to very
different needs and articulations of the international community we
try to serve at the Goldsen Archive that subsequently expand the
parameters of the archive, in matter and theory. This resulted, for
instance, in the broad expansion of the initial mission of the Goldsen
Archive away from focusing solely on computer-based art to include the
longer history of video art and its relation to electronic art,
partially in response to the important overlap of performance and
video in theWen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art, which we
brought to the Goldsen from Beijing six years ago, and more recently
with a partnership with Experimental Television Center.
Key to these shifts have been the expression of need by communities
for whom new media (and video) have been vital to cultural and
political expression, often in less than ideal institutional
circumstances. One very fruitful outcome of this month's discussion
has been the welcome addition to the -empyre- dialogue of very
specific accounts of the relation between new media and indigenous
practices and politics across Latin America, from Chile to Argentina
and Colombia to Brazil. These accounts have stimulated extremely
interesting dialogues with our discussants from better known media and
performance initiatives in the UK , US, and Spain, in a way that has
foregrounded the importance of culturally and politically based
practices to the development of new media and to the emergent
complexities of its archivization.
Thanks again for sharing time to focus on these very important
issues. I end by extending a particularly warm welcome to the new
Latin American members of our -empyre- community.
Best,
Tim
--
Gabriela Previdello
FILE Archive Coordination
filearquiv...@gmail.com
skypename: gabrielaprevidello
55|11|9896 6644
www.file.org.br
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