“Archiving the Symposium Expanded Animation: Challenges, Solutions and International Collaborations” presented by Hagler
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- Summit on New Media Art Archiving: Short papers
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- Archiving the Symposium Expanded Animation: Challenges, Solutions and International Collaborations
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The Expanded Animation Symposium, an annual symposium at Ars Electronica, has addressed computer animation in the context of media art since 2013. Based on the early discussions at the media festival and in conjunction with the Prix Ars Electronica’s category Computer Animation, the symposium tackles animation at the intersection of art, technology, and society. The symposium serves as a hybrid between practice and theory and features talks, panel discussions, workshops, and artist presentations at various venues (i.e., museum, university, festival, cinema). 164 international experts presented and discussed current positions and future trends in the last nine editions. Due to the pandemic, the previous two editions took place online. All these activities have been documented and archived in various forms. This paper discusses challenges and concrete proposals for archiving the Expanded Animation Symposium and collaborating with Ars Electronica’s archive and international partners.
