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 current AAMA investigatory team is: 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). Nick Richardson and Andrew Piper were PIs from ACMI and SLSA, respectively, from 2020 until mid-2023.

Contact Information

If you are an organisation or artist interested in this research project, please contact us aama [at] swin.edu.au

ARC_logoThis 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.