Matters in Media Art. Program | iPRES 2012. You can use your mobile device at iPres2012 to track Schedules, Events and Speakers. From your mobile device browse to or scan the QR Code below; Monday (Day 1) Workshop 1: Spanning the boundaries of digital training and education Workshop 2: Towards practical emulation tools and strategies - state of the research meets real-world requirement Tuesday (Day 2) Workshop 3: Open research challanges in digital preservation Workshop 4: PREMIS implementation fair/preservation health check Tutorial 1: Introduction to data citation (2:00pm - 5:00pm) Tutorial 2: In the driver's seat: putting the curator's workbench through its pace (2:00pm - 5:00pm) Conference Agenda Wednesday, October 3, 2012 Thursday, October 4, 2012 Friday, October 5, 2012 Poster List CURATECamp CURATECamp on "Preservation Synthesis" 9 am - 5 pm on October 2, University of Toronto, room location TBD.
DOCAM. BAM/PFA - Archiving the Avant-Garde. Works of digital and Internet art, performance, installation, conceptual, and other variable media art represent some of the most compelling and significant artistic creations of our time. These works constitute a history of alternative artistic practice, but because of their ephemeral, technical, or otherwise variable natures, they also present significant obstacles to accurate documentation, access, and preservation. Without strategies for preservation many of these vital works - and possibly whole new genres such as early Internet art - will be lost to future generations. Description of and access to art collections promote new scholarship and artistic production.
By developing ways to catalog and preserve these collections, we will both provide current and future generations the opportunity to learn from and be inspired by these works. It is to achieve these goals that we initiated the consortium project Archiving the Avant Garde: Documenting and Preserving Variable Media Art. Forging the Future: New Tools for Variable Media Preservation.