Ⓥ 6.7 4th Summit on New Media Art Archiving
Tracks
Track 7
Tuesday, June 25, 2024 |
3:30 PM - 5:30 PM |
Plaza P11 |
Overview
This session will be livestreamed from Brisbane for virtual delegates
Speaker
Assoc. Dr. Selcuk Artut
Faculty Member
Sabanci University
FP: Media Archiving Tradition: Algorithmic Analysis and Preservation of Geometric Patterns in Historical Architectural Monuments
3:30 PM - 3:50 PMAbstract
This article proposes that examining the algorithmic structure analysis of geometric patterns with computational methods has a substantial role in preserving and restoring various examples found in architectural structures of historical importance. Using computational methods, researchers can accurately analyze the intricate details of geometric patterns and detect any damage or deterioration in artworks. This information can then be used to develop effective conservation and restoration strategies, ensuring that these architectural structures are preserved for future generations to appreciate. Through systematic examination of geometric patterns, we gain insight into these structures' craftsmanship and cultural significance and create a digital archive that can aid long-term preservation efforts. The article also conducts a structural analysis of a distinct geometric pattern that is present within the traditional context. It employs a combination of applied mathematical and empirical approaches to propose form-specific methods for computationally generating significant motifs passed down through tradition. Adopting this approach makes it feasible to transfer patterns that are defined algorithmically to future contexts, regardless of the medium used. This approach also provides a means to mitigate the risk of technological obsolescence.
Biography
Selçuk ARTUT’s artistic research and production focus on the theoretical and practical dimensions of human-technology relations. Artut’s artworks have been exhibited at Sonar Istanbul (2023), AKM (Istanbul, 2022), Dystopie Sound Art Festival (Berlin, 2018), Moving Image NY (New York, 2015), Art13 London (London, 2013), ICA London (London, 2012), Art Hong Kong (Hong Kong, 2011), Istanbul Biennale (Istanbul, 2007), and received coverage at Artsy, Creative Applications, CoDesign, Visual Complexity, and CNN GO. He holds a Ph.D. in Media and Communications from the European Graduate School, Switzerland.
An author of seven books and an editor of one, Artut is an Associate Professor at the Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design Program Sabanci University, Istanbul where he mainly teaches Sound and Interaction Courses. He has been releasing several albums as a member of a Post-Rock Avant-Garde music band Replikas since 1998. In 2016, Artut founded an audio-visual performance duo named RAW which produces works through creative coding and live-coding techniques.
more: www.selcukartut.com
Social Media: @selcukartut
Artut’s artistic activities are represented by Zilberman Gallery
Mag Christina Radner
Archive
Ars Electronica Linz GmbH & Co KG
AP: Ars Electronica Archive Relaunch
3:50 PM - 4:00 PMAbstract
Ars Electronica is based in Linz, Upper Austria. A funded project currently makes it possible to commit more resources to its archive to make substantial changes in the database structure and to rethink workflows new. The presentation provides a glimpse into the current developments and challenges of this project, that started in May 2023 and will end in August 2024.
Biography
Christina Radner (AT) currently is the responsible project manager for the Ars Electronica Archive in Linz, Austria. In 2009 she got her master´s degree in art history at the University of Vienna. At an internship at the Art Brut Museum Gugging in Klosterneuburg near Vienna, she got a first insight into the archive work of a museum. She was hired project-based, to help work on an artist´s estate and to prepare a retrospective and a comprehensive catalogue of works. In 2013 she moved back to Upper Austria and started her work in the Ars Electronica Archive Team. Since 2015 she is the responsible project manager for the Archive and part of the Festival/Prix/Archive Core Team of Ars Electronica.
Dr Gregory Beller
Ircam
FP: DAFNE+: Blockchain for Preservation and Valorization of Experimental Music and Sound Production
4:00 PM - 4:20 PMAbstract
DAFNE+ provides digital content creators new forms of crea-tion, distribution and monetization of their works of art through blockchain technology. A new international research and innovation project supported by the European Union (Horizon program), the DAFNE+ platform for fair creative content distribution will empower creators and communities though new digital distribution models based on digital to-kens. In an intuitive and simple way, without the need for technical knowledge in blockchains/NFTs, creative communi-ties are invited to join the decentralized autonomous organiza-tion (DAO) offering new services and tools that allow the creation and co-creation of content in a blockchain. DAFNE+'s research will also focus on the definition of new business models through the distribution of content, allowing creators and users to monetize multimedia creations. IRCAM’s role in DAFNE+ is in particular to organize a community of artists and technology providers on electronic music and sound. Halfway between IRCAM's Forum software and ar-chives of interactive music/sound repertoire, and based on an autonomous organization and distributed infrastructure, the platform will enable artists, researchers and engineers to share and monetize pieces of technology for producing music and performing works - libraries, patches, documentations.
Biography
Greg Beller works as an artist, researcher, teacher and computer designer for the contemporary arts. Founder of the Synekine project, he invents new musical instruments combining sound and movement, which he uses in comprovisation situations with various performers or in computer-assisted composition, notably in his opera “The Fault”. At the ligeti center, while preparing a second doctorate on “Natural Interfaces for Computer Music”, he is a research assistant in the innovation-lab and teaches in the Multimedia Composition department at Hamburg’s HfMT University for Music and Drama. At the nexus of the arts and sciences at IRCAM, he has successively been a doctoral student working on generative models of expressivity and their applications to speech and music, a computer-aided music designer, director of the Research/Creation Interfaces department and product manager of the IRCAM Forum.
Mr Sean Carroll
De Montfort University
SP: Integrating LLMs and RAG for Improved Usability in Multimedia Archives
4:20 PM - 4:30 PMAbstract
This paper explores the roles of generative AI technologies, such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval Augmentation Generation (RAG) systems to enhance multimedia archives. In it, archives are redefined as dynamic entities for knowledge construction and validation, focusing on improving cultural accessibility and interaction. The paper addresses the challenges in archiving new media art, emphasising how semantic embeddings and LLMs make user interactions with archives more intuitive and accessible. The practical implementation of these technologies is explored in the Computer Art Archive's pilot program, which incorporates this technology into systems akin to current knowledge retrieval frameworks. The paper concludes by discussing how these advancements democratise knowledge access and contribute to the enrichment of digital cultural heritage.
Biography
Sean Carroll is a PhD candidate at De Montfort University, engaged in a full-time placement with the Computer Arts Archive in Leicester, UK. His research focuses on the application of Artificial Intelligence in enhancing the development, maintenance, and accessibility of new media archives. Funded by a scholarship from the AHRC Midlands4Cities, Sean's work contributes to the evolving field of digital archival practices, particularly within the context of new media art. His academic pursuits involve exploring innovative methods to improve archival systems through AI technologies, aiming to make these resources more accessible and efficient.
Prof Oliver Grau
Director
Archive For Digital Art
P: Archive of Digital Art
4:30 PM - 4:40 PMAbstract
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Archive of Digital Art. For over a quarter of a century, ADA has been a leading project, with a background of more than 35 years. It has grown to become one of the most significant online archives, documenting the rapidly evolving world of digital art and its related fields. In cooperation with established media artists, researchers and institutions it documents thousands of artworks at the intersection of art, science and technology: www.archive-digitalart.eu
Biography
Oliver Grau. 20 years Chair Professorships in Art History and Image Science at int. Universities. Elected Member of Academia Europaea. More than 350 invited lectures and keynotes at conferences, incl. Olympic Games culture program and G-20 Summit.
Grau founded and serves as director of the internationally extensive Archive of Digital Art, ADA: www.archive-digitalart.eu Grau's “Virtual Art. From Illusion to Immersion”, MIT Press (Nature & Scientific American Book of the Month) is with 2900+ citations internationally among the most quoted art history books
since the year 2000. It offered the first historic evolution in imageviewer
theory of immersion and a systematic analysis of the triad of artist, artwork and beholder in digital art. Grau was founding director and is head of the MediaArtHistories Conference Series board. He received several awards and his numerous publications have been translated in 15 languages. His main research is in histories of media art, immersive images, art and emotion, the history of artificial life and digital humanities. Grau developed new international curricula: MediaArtHistories MA, Image Science, Digital
Collection Management, the Erasmus MediaArtsCultures Program is supported by the EU with 5.5 Mio Euro.
Art Ph.d. Violeta Vojvodic Balaz
Memoduct Group
P: The SNMAA Sustainability Presentation
4:40 PM - 5:00 PMAbstract
The Sustainability Workshops Series of the Summit on New Media Art Archiving (SNMAA) consists of the output-oriented workshops that will focus on 2024 priority fields: Summit as a hybrid event, streaming of the Summit, Media visibility and Funding. The goal of the initiative is to enhance self-organisation, improve management of the scarce resources and cooperation between the SNMAA partners.
Biography
Violeta Vojvodic Balaz (MEMODUCT Group), a media artist and researcher. Violeta holds a PhD from the Faculty of Fine Art (Belgrade). She received a European Diploma in Cultural Man-agement (Brussels), her research was focused on strategic plan-ning, virtuality and cybernetics. Together with Eduard Balaz she founded Urtica, art and media research group (Novi Sad, 1999-2012). She was one of the co-founders of Center_kuda.org in Novi Sad (2001). In 2020, she founded web-based research initia-tive MEMODUCT posthuman.archive.
Dr Wim van der Plas
ISEA Symposium Archives
Panelist
Biography
Wim van der Plas is co-founder of ISEA and organiser of the three ISEA symposia held in the Netherlands. He led ISEA HQ in the first 8 years of its existence and was a board member of the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts and ISEA International (both of which he also was co-founder) until 2017. Since then, he is Honorary Chair of the ISEA International Advisory Committee nd ISEA Symposium archivist. He received a Leonardo Pioneer Award in 2018.
Assistant Professor Byeongwon Ha
School of Visual Art and Design, University of South Carolina
Panelist
Biography
Byeongwon Ha (University of South Carolina), an assistant professor in Media Arts in the School of Visual Art and Design at the University of South Carolina (Columbia). As a new media artist, he has been taking part in international conferences and festivals art such as CHI, SIGGRAPH Asia, ISEA, and ARTECH since 2012. His research traces a transition from analog media, including film, architecture, and video, to new media. Dr. Ha has published articles as an author in Leonardo Music Journal (MIT Press) and as a coauthor in Leonardo (MIT Press).
Mr Terry C. W. Wong
Simon Fraser University
Panelist
Biography
Terry C. W. Wong is an archivist and co-organizer for the ISEA Archives. He holds a BASc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia and an MA in Fine Art from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Currently, he is conducting graduate research on connecting new media art archiving worldwide at the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University. Terry has been actively involved with the New Media Art Archiving Summit and is currently a member of the organizing committee and the International Programme Committee (IPC). Before his archiving work, Terry gained years of experience in project management as a professional engineer, while also being a practicing artist and designer. Additionally, Terry has extensive experience in arts administration and has been involved in international projects, including the ISEA Symposium, SIGGRAPH, the Hong Kong Arts Festival, and the Venice Biennale
Ms Bonnie Mitchell
Director
ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive
Panelist
Biography
Bonnie Mitchell (ISEA archives and SIGGRAPH archive), a digital artist, animator, archivist as well as a professor of Digital Arts at Bowling Green State University (Ohio). Her creative work includes interactive installation art, environmental data visualisation art, experimental visual music animation, net-art, and new media art archive development. Mitchell is the co-director of the SIGGRAPH History and ISEA Archives, a committee member of the ISEA and the ACM SIGGRAPH History and Digital Arts. She is the SIGGRAPH 2023 History Chair in charge of the 50th conference celebration.
Prof Jan Searleman
Adjunct Research Professor
Clarkson University
Panelist
Biography
Jan Searleman taught Computer Science at Clarkson University for 37 years, retired in 2015, and since retirement has been an Adjunct Research Professor at Clarkson. Her research areas are Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interaction, and Artificial Intelligence. A senior member of the ACM, Jan is also on two ACM SIGGRAPH Committees: Digital Art (DAC) and History. Jan and Bonnie Mitchell coordinated a DAC Online Exhibition “The Earth, Our Home: Art, Technology and Critical Action”. She is co-director of the ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive with Bonnie Mitchell. Jan also co-directs the ISEA Symposium Archives with Bonnie Mitchell, Wim van der Plas, and Terry C.W. Wong. In 2022/2023, she was a member of the SIGGRAPH 50th Anniversary team. She also served on the organizing team for the Second Summit on New Media Art Archiving at ISEA2023 in Barcelona.
Prof Oliver Grau
Director
Archive For Digital Art
Panelist
Biography
Oliver Grau. 20 years Chair Professorships in Art History and Image Science at int. Universities. Elected Member of Academia Europaea. More than 350 invited lectures and keynotes at conferences, incl. Olympic Games culture program and G-20 Summit.
Grau founded and serves as director of the internationally extensive Archive of Digital Art, ADA: www.archive-digitalart.eu Grau's “Virtual Art. From Illusion to Immersion”, MIT Press (Nature & Scientific American Book of the Month) is with 2900+ citations internationally among the most quoted art history books
since the year 2000. It offered the first historic evolution in imageviewer
theory of immersion and a systematic analysis of the triad of artist, artwork and beholder in digital art. Grau was founding director and is head of the MediaArtHistories Conference Series board. He received several awards and his numerous publications have been translated in 15 languages. His main research is in histories of media art, immersive images, art and emotion, the history of artificial life and digital humanities. Grau developed new international curricula: MediaArtHistories MA, Image Science, Digital
Collection Management, the Erasmus MediaArtsCultures Program is supported by the EU with 5.5 Mio Euro.
Felix Mittelberger
ZKM collection & archive
Workshop on New Media Art Archiving (WNMAA) on connecting archives
5:00 PM - 5:10 PMAbstract
In addition to the Summits on New Media Art Archiving, held annually at the ISEA symposia since ISEA2020, and organised by a team of archivists of ISEA, SIGGRAPH, ADA, FILE, ZKM, Ars Electronica and others, the team is initiating Workshops on New Media Art Archiving. The idea of the Workshops is to not only exchange knowledge but stimulate practical co-operation.
This first Workshop on New Media Art Archiving will be on globally connecting new media art archives and brings together experts, practitioners, and stakeholders to discuss strategies and best practices, to establish a knowledge bank and a network of new media art archives experts, in terms of both Connecting Data and Connecting People.
The 1st WNMAA will be organised by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany and will take place February 5-7, 2025.
This first Workshop on New Media Art Archiving will be on globally connecting new media art archives and brings together experts, practitioners, and stakeholders to discuss strategies and best practices, to establish a knowledge bank and a network of new media art archives experts, in terms of both Connecting Data and Connecting People.
The 1st WNMAA will be organised by ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany and will take place February 5-7, 2025.
Biography
Felix Mittelberger studied art history and philosophy at the FAU
| Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen, art science and media theory at the HfG | Hochschule für Gestaltung [University of Art and Design] Karlsruhe and archival science at the Fachhochschule [University of Applied Science] Potsdam. Responsible for the Institutional Archives and the Archives of Artists and Theorists, he has been working as the chief archivist at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe since 2018.
Margit Rosen
ZKM collection & archive
Co-presenter
Biography
Margit Rosen is an art historian and curator. In 2016, she established
the department 'Collection, Archives & Research' at the ZKM Centre for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, which she has headed since then. She has taught at various universities, including the State Academy of Art and Design Karlsruhe (HfG), Danube University Krems, the Academy of Fine Arts Münster, the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, and the Università degli Studi di Milano. Her research, publications, and curatorial work are centered on 20th and 21st century art, with a particular emphasis
on the relationship between art, society, and new technologies
Session chair
Wim van der Plas
ISEA Symposium Archives
Terry C. W. Wong
Simon Fraser University
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