“Introducing Videotage Media Art Collection (VMAC)” presented by Chung and Chow

Symposium:

• ISEA2022: 27th International Symposium on Electronic Art
• More presentations from ISEA2022:  

• Summit on New Media Art Archiving: Lightning Talks

• Introducing Videotage Media Art Collection (VMAC)

• Wing Shan Chung
• John Ho Fung Chow

Venue(s):

• MACBA – Convent dels Àngels, Barcelona, Spain

• Founded in 1986, Videotage is a leading Hong Kong-based non-profit organization specializing in the promotion, presentation, creation and preservation of new media art across all languages, shapes and forms. Videotage Media Art Collection (VMAC) strives as the identity and body that documents Hong Kong’s extensive media art history. Through Hong Kong’s character of a cultural, geographical and political peninsula that uniquely merges Chinese and Western influences, the collection depicts how the city has been a sensitive witness to a period of art in history. It also displays the development of society as much as that of technology-exploring issues of identity and life in urban, political and cultural environments through a wide array of techniques that mark the transition from analogue to digital artmaking.

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Keywords:

• video art
• VHS
• digitalization
• art communities
• collaborative preservation
• Hong Kong