HI Mark, everyone, Jennifer, hello and thanks for the plug! Sounds like an interesting couple of papers too.
Mark, I'm sending along a paper I published on the topic of collecting and preserving new media art and creating related metadata -------------- next part -------------- I would also recommend other reports on our project website at: http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/ciao There is also a lovely video clip from the DOCAM summit talking about preserving new media art via our latest efforts: http://www.docam.ca/en/?p=258 Richard Rinehart --------------- Digital Media Director & Adjunct Curator Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive bampfa.berkeley.edu --------------- University of California, Berkeley --------------- 2625 Durant Ave. Berkeley, CA, 94720-2250 ph.510.642.5240 fx.510.642.5269 On Mar 25, 2008, at 3:36 PM, j trant wrote: > Mark, > > there are two papers on this subject online for the upcoming 2008 > Museums and the Web conference. See > > New Media Art in Museum Collections: A Report from the DOCAM > Cataloguing and Conservation Committees > http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/gagnier/gagnier.html > > and > > Ethnographic Methods and New Media Preservation > http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/adamczyk/adamczyk.html > > There are others from the past too -- you can search the site or the > bibliography. > > you'll also want to look at the work of Richard Rinehart (Berkeley) > and John Ippolito (Gugggenheim), and the digital preservation > literature, where this topic has been discussed. The Registrars > Committee of AAM has also touched on this issue in the past > (particularly dealing with the documentation of transitory > performances, and the question of authenticity in re-creation). > > Peter Samis has some great footage about site-specific works at > SFMOMA too, that talk about the artists intent, and the process of > team-based creation. > > good luck. > > jennifer > > > At 10:10 AM -0700 3/25/08, mark schlemmer wrote: >> Fellow Listservers, >> >> As part of my graduate thesis I am exploring the >> registration of installation art, especially in >> reference to work with new media content (video, >> digital/computational components, etc.) My major >> concern is how to document the artist's intent so that >> subsequent re-installations remain true to their >> original ideas even when certain physical and spatial >> variables change. >> >> To that end, I was wondering if any of you would be >> willing to share anecdotes about how your museum has >> dealt with the registration of new media installation >> art. Do you use written artist questionnaires to >> document the artist's intent? Interviews? On-site, >> video-taped walk-throughs? etc. >> >> Thanks in advance and please feel free to forward this >> on to colleagues. >> >> Mark Schlemmer >> >> mbschlemmer at yahoo.com >> >> MA Candidate in Museum Professions >> Registration and Collections Management, May 2008 >> Seton Hall University >> >> Organizer RC-AAM "Emerging Voices Forum" at the >> Marketplace of Ideas, 2008 AAM Annual Meeting, >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________________ >> Looking for last minute shopping deals? >> Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. >> http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php? >> category=shopping >> _______________________________________________ >> You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum >> Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) >> >> To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu >> >> To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >> http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > > -- > __________ > J. Trant jtrant at archimuse.com > Partner & Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 > Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 > 158 Lee Ave, Toronto > Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com > __________ > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum > Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l
