Participation in video art preservation Activism, proliferation and community archives
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2024-01-31
Paula Fernández Valdés
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Throughout its history, video art has been commonly employed as an artistic weapon against social injustice and inequality. Because of its experimental and technological nature, that activist aspect is continuously fazed by obsolescence, the biggest challenge in preserving these types of artworks. The present article offers an understanding of video art as a proliferative artefact, consequently focusing its conservation strategies around access. In this framework, online spaces appear as a resource of particular relevance for their accessibility, allowing for the diffusion and reactivation of the social demands of video artworks. Is it possible to design effective participative practices in institutional spaces? Simultaneously, how should we transform these institutions to allow equal participation? With the concept of post-museum in mind, a reflection is made concerning the possibilities, limits and effects of extra-institutional agents' participation in the preservation processes of video art.
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Fernández Valdés, Paula. 2024. “Participation in Video Art Preservation: Activism, Proliferation and Community Archives”. AusArt 12 (1). https://doi.org/10.1387/ausart.25549.
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VIDEOART, PRESERVATION, PARTICIPATION, ONLINE ARCHIVING
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Fernández Valdés, Paula. 2023. «Pasado, presente y futuro del videoarte en España: Nuevas estrategias de preservación para su difusión en red». Tesis doctoral, Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/200467
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Laurenson, Pip, Vivian van Saaze & Renée van de Vall. 2022.«Bridging the gaps between theory and practice through cross-institutional collaboration in the conservation of contemporary art». En Engaged humanities: Rethinking art, culture, and public life, edited by Aagje Swinnen, Amanda Kluveld & Renée van de Vall, 271-304. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2rcnqpt.14
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Marçal, Hélia. 2019. «Public engagement towards sustainable heritage preservation». Protection of Cultural Heritage 8: 185-210. https://doi.org/10.35784/odk.1084
Marçal, Hélia. 2023. «Entangled ethics: Heritage conservation, transmission and participation». En From conservation to conversation: Rethinking collection care, edited by Farideh Fekrsanati & Gabriel Schimmeroth. Hamburg: Museum am Rothenbaum Kulturen und Künste
Marstine, Janet. 2006. New museum theory and practice: An introduction. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons
Meigh-Andrews, Chris. 2006. A history of video art: The development of form and function. Oxford: Berg
National Library of Australia. 2003. Guidelines for the preservation of digital heritage. Paris: Unesco. https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000130071
Pastor Pérez, Ana, David Barreiro Martínez, Eva Parga-Dans & Pablo Alonso González. 2021. «Democratising heritage values: A methodological review». Sustainability 13(22): 12492. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132212492
Phillips, Joanna. 2010. «Shifting equipment significance inTime-based media art». Electronic Media Group Session, AIC 36th Annual Meeting Milwaukee, WI, May 11–14, http://resources.culturalheritage.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2016/07/Vol-1_2010_Ch-6_Phillips.pdf
Phillips, Megan, Jefferson Bailey, Andrea Goethals & Trevor Owens. 2013. «The NDSA levels of digital preservation: explanation and uses». Archiving Conference 10, 216-222. https://doi.org/10.2352/issn.2168-3204.2013.10.1.art00047
Price, Seth. 2019. «Dispersion». En The art happens here: Net art anthology, edited by Aria Dean, Dragan Espenschied & Michael J. Connor. New York: Rhyzome
Rausch, Christoph, Ruth Benschop, Emilie Sitzia & Vivian van Saaze, eds. 2022. Participatory practices in art and cultural heritage: Learning through and from collaboration. Cham, Switzerland: Springer
Rinehart, Richard & Jon Ippolito. 2014. Re-collection: Art, new media, and social memory. Cambridge MA: MIT
Schäfer, Mirko Tobias. 2011. Bastard culture! How user participation transforms cultural production. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University
Smith, Laurajane. 2006. Uses of heritage. London: Routledge
Zavala, Jimmy; Alda Allina Migoni, Michelle Caswell, Noah Geraci & Marika Cifor. 2017. «’A process where we’re all at the table’: Community archives challenging dominant modes of archival practice». Archives & Manuscripts 45(3): 202-215. https://doi.org/10.1080/01576895.2017.1377088
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