About Archiving Australian Media Arts
Archiving Australian Media Arts: Towards a method and a national collection (LP180100307) is a three year research project funded by the Australian Research Council involving collaboration between university researchers and cultural institutions.
Our aim is to develop a good practice method for stabilising digital media artworks, providing emulated access to the artworks to researchers in reading rooms, and to investigate the contemporary exhibition and re-display of historical media artworks. Research outcomes will include publications, an exhibition and an international conference.
The project is a collaboration between researchers at Swinburne, RMIT and Griffith universities, ACMI, the Art Gallery of NSW, the State Library of South Australia, Experimenta Media Arts, dLux Media Arts, ANAT, UNESCO PERSIST, and Rhizome.
The AAMA investigatory team includes Melanie Swalwell (Centre for Transformative Media Technologies, Swinburne), Denise de Vries (Swinburne), Helen Stuckey (RMIT), Carolyn Murphy (AGNSW), Angela Goddard (Griffith University Art Museum), Candice Cranmer (ACMI), and Taryn Ellis (SLSA).
Contact Information
If you are an organisation or artist interested in this research project, please contact us aama [at] swin.edu.au
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Video recordings of presentations from the 2023 Born Digital Cultural Heritage conference are now up at https://aama.net.au/conference/program/ for your viewing pleasure. It was a great conference with really top speakers. Credit and many thanks to the amazing AV staff @ACMI. Enjoy! #BDCH23
This is a REALLY impressive & useful report on "Collecting, Curating, Preserving and Researching Media Arts." We are currently accessing Shock in the Ear (on the report's cover) via the EaaSI for a remote collaboration project for my book, so this is especially great to read now.
I am disturbed by the proposal to close Griffith University Art Museum, a collaborative partner on the "Archiving Australian Media Arts" Linkage Project. You might like to join me in signing the petition against its closure at @GUArtMuseum
A team of digital archivists is in a race against time to save Australia's digital heritage stored on obsolete systems or failing electronics.
“Preserving these creations is urgent," says Professor Melanie Swalwell [@melswal].
This research is supported by the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Projects funding scheme (project LP180100307). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and are not necessarily those of the Australian Government or Australian Research Council.