4th Summit on New Media Art Archiving (2024)

June 25 & 26 2024, @ ISEA2024 Brisbane, Australia

The 4th SNMAA will be part of the 29th International Symposium on Electronic Art, ISEA2024 (June 21-29). For the programme of ISEA2024 (under development) see https://isea2024.isea-international.org/program

The preliminary programme of the 4th Summit on New Media Art Archiving is below, organised by category, not presentation order. Please note that a number of the presenters will present from remote places via video conferencing.

Tuesday June 25

Opening: Meet the Team: a (very) short intro to the co-operating archives for the Summits on New Media Art Archiving *)

Papers (long)

Media Archiving Tradition: Algorithmic Analysis and Preservation of Geometric Patterns in Historical Architectural Monuments by Selcuk Artut (TR)
Re-enactment, Users Manuals and DNA Storage: methods for media art preservation by Louise Curham & Lucas Ihlein (AU)
Documenting the Ephemeral: Strategies for Preserving Early Internet Art by Ze Gao (HK), presented by Zheng Wang (SG)
Latin American Media Art: Political dimensions of the archive of the International Image Festival by Raquel Caerols Mateo (ES) & Felipe César Londoño (CO)
An Interdisciplinary Practice-based Research on Constructing Techno-Art Cloud Exhibition Platform by Chih-Yung Chiu (TW)
DAFNE+: Blockchain for preservation and valorization of experimental music and sound production by Gregory Beller (FR)

Papers (short)

Integrating LLMs and RAG for Improved Usability in Multimedia Archives by Sean Carroll (UK)
Deep Learning Algorithms as Potential Solutions to Challenges in Video Art Preservation by John HoFung Chow & Sam Chan (HK)
New Animation Art: The History and Evolution of Computer Animation at Prix Ars Electronica by Jürgen Hagler (AT)

Archive Presentations

Ars Electronica Archive Relaunch by Christina Radner (AT)
The Computer Arts Society and Computer Arts Archive by Sean Clark & Paul Brown (UK/AU)
The Immersive Archive by Zeynep Abes, Nathan Fairchild (presenters), Michael Wahba, Katrina Xiao, Spencer Lin, Scott Fisher (US)

Panels

SNMAA Sustainability Panel with Violeta Vojvodic Balaz (RS), Wim van der Plas (NL), Terry Wong (HK/CA), Bonnie Mitchell (US), Janice Searleman (US), Byeongwon Ha (KR/US) Moderator: Oliver Grau (AT)
Archiving Australian Media Arts of the 1990s: Towards a method and a national collection with Helen Stuckey, Cynde Moya, Candice Cranmer, Xanthe Dobbie & Troy Innocent

Wednesday June 26

Special Panel Session, organised by ISEA2024/4th SNMAA:
The Heritage of the Pioneers, with Peter Beyls (BE), Keisuke Oki (JP), Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau (AT/FR) and Stelarc (AU), moderated by Melanie Swallwell (AU)

Other ISEA2024 Presentations Related to Archiving:

ISEA Symposia in Australia: Past, Present and Future (1992, 2013 & 2024) by Terry C. Wong
An Immersive, Interactive Journey Back in Time: Traversing SIGGRAPH’s 50th Conference History Exhibition and Events by Bonnie Mitchell, Kon Hyong Kim, Yamin Xu & Terry C. W. Wong
A Short History of the International Symposium on Electronic Art by Wim van der Plas
Art, memory, and place. Pioneering research and technology innovation to support creation (when resources are scarce) by Ricardo Dal Farra

*) The 4th Summit on New Media Art Archiving is organised by a team representing the archives of ISEA, SIGGRAPH, ZKM, ADA, FILE, Memoduct and others and is endorsed by ISEA International and Ars Electronica, in close co-operation with ISEA2024.