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Digital Heritage: 5th Summit on New Media Art Archiving
26 May 2025 10:00-17:25 & 27 May 2025 10:00-15:45
Seoul National University Museum of Art
As digital and electronic arts continue to evolve, they challenge traditional archival methods, necessitating ongoing adaptation to new technologies. The 5th Summit on New Media Archiving brings together scholars, practitioners, and archivists to address the preservation and archiving of new media artworks?a vital component of our cultural heritage. This summit serves as an important platform for discussing the theoretical and practical challenges associated with archiving new media artworks and events.
?The 5th Summit on New Media Art Archiving, is a collaborative initiative involving the following partners: ISEA Symposium Archives, ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive, Archive of Digital Art (ADA), Ars Electronica, Electronic Language International Festival (FILE) Archives, MEMODUCT Posthuman Archive, and the ZKM Archives. This dedicated group aims to connect archives around the globe and enhance the archiving and preservation efforts of new media art.
5th Summit on New Media Art Archiving Tentative Schedule
FP: Full Paper ? SP: Short Paper ? P: Panel ? AP: Archive Presentation? IT: Invited Talks
Day 1 May 26 Monday
Session 1
Welcome
AP: ? Art Center Nabi Archives
Interconnections and Sound
SP: ? Futures Forgotten: Rhizomatic Archiving of Immersive Memories – Zeynep Abes
SP: ? Sharing Attachments: Collective approaches to cataloguing distribution-based audiovisual arts – Linnea Semmerling
P: ? ? Digital Preservation and Virtual Reconstruction of Architectural Acoustic Heritage – Doyuen Ko, Sungyoung Kim and Hyeseung Shim
Session 2
AI & New Tools in Archiving
SP: ? Ask Me Anything: Information Retrieval for Interactive Narrative Generation from Digital Archives – Paul Heinrich Bethge and Jeffrey Shaw
FP: ? ?You Can?t Surprise Yourself!? Suggestion for Human-AI – Dominik B?nisch and Christian Geiger
SP: ? Improving Historical Algorithm Recreation Through Systems- Sean Carroll
SP: ? Archiving New Media Art with a VR Camera Kit – Byeongwon Ha
FP: ? Staging Ars Electronica Archive: Alternative Concept for Exploring Media Art in Education focusing on New Animation Art – Juergen Hagler, Christl Baur and Emiko Ogawa
Session 3
Workshop Report
IT:? ? Report on the Minting, Displaying and Connecting Archives through the Blockchain Workshop – Aissa Mar?a Santiso Camiade
Archive Presentations
AP: ? The History of the ISEA Symposium Archives – Wim van der Plas, Bonnie Mitchell, Terry Chun Wong, Jan Searleman, Colby Jennings
AP: ? ACM SIGGRAPH History Archives: Progress and Next Steps – Bonnie Mitchell and Janice Searleman
AP: ? Ars Electronica Archive [Virtual]
AP: ? ADA [Virtual]
AP: ? ZKM Archive [Virtual]
AP: ? Maria Alejandra [Virtual]
AP: ? Chinese Cyberfeminism Archive (CCA) – ephemeral:data\
AP: ? BFI Our Screen Heritage Institutional Presentation – Will Swinburne and Kristina Tarasova
New Media Art Reincarnation
FP: ? Conserving Art Experience in Evolving Media Milieux: A Case
Study of Light on the Net (1996/2024) – Shigeru Kobayashi
FP: ? Toshio Iwai Piano – as image media and Time Stratum Series: A Tale of (re)Creation – Hiroko Kimura-Myokam
Day 2 May 27 Tues?
Session 4
Archives Presentations
AP: ? Unlocking the Digital Canvas: The FILE ARCHIVE and Its Open Access Commitment – Paula Perissinotto and Fabiana Krepel [Virtual]
Digital Heritage
FP: ? YOUR HOSTING SERVICE HAS BEEN DEACTIVATED: Persistence and Discontinuity in the Preservation of Latin American Media Arts – Vanina Y. Hofman Matusevich
SP: ? Informal Archiving: The Space of Reverie and the Dispersed Art Object – Avrokomi Zavitsanou
P: ? ? Digital Literature Archives in Latin America: Creative, Curatorial and Technical Choices – Leonardo Flores, Ver?nica Paula G?mez, Marcos Wasem, Jos? Aburto and Vin?cius Carvalho Pereira
Session 5
Connecting Archives
SP: ? A Cross-Cultural Framework for New Media Art Archives – Daechan Heo
P: ? ? Preserving, Providing, Progressing: Access the Excess – Lena Holub, Martin Honzik, Lev Manovich, Olga Shishko, Escher Tsai and Soh Yeong Roh
IT:? ? Report on the ZKM Workshop on Connecting New Media Art Archives – Terry Chun Wong, Bonnie Mitchell, Dominik B?nisch, Felix Mittelberger, Paula Perissinotto, Violeta Vojvodic Balaz [Hybrid]
