media memories and archives/ video vortex

Argos, Centre for Art & Media, and PACKED present:

Media, Memory and the Archive
CONFERENCE
ARGOS, Brussels
Sa 06.10.2007 11:00-19:00

How will generations after us look back on artistic production of the
20th and 21st centuries? Media formats, operating systems, software
and hardware, browsers and the internet as we know it today will have
evolved beyond recognition, both in shape and in use. What strategies
might be used to transpose technology-based works, variable, hybrid
and ephemeral by nature, to an unknown and unpredictable future? How
can intent, context and experience be recorded and permanently
interpreted? The archiving process does not merely represent an
attempt to preserve some notions, it also implicates that others will
be forgotten. What is relevant for preservation? What is the impact
of used models, technical structures and tools on the construction
of cultural memory? How does information travel through time, now
that the world is being (re)presented and organised more and more as
a database, dynamic and networked? How will museums and other memory
institutions cope with these new paradigms and what is the role media
artists and we ourselves might have in the structuring of public memory?

Speakers: Richard Rinehart, Steve Dietz, Josephine Bosma, Oliver
Grau, Charlie Gere, Wolfgang Ernst, Jean-François Blanchette

Moderated by Marleen Wynants (CROSSTALKS, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
- VUB)

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Media, Memory and the Archive is part of OPEN ARCHIVE#1, a series of
programs and events in which Argos mines the archive, reflecting and
presenting a range of responses to the argos collections as well as
considering the nature of the contemporary archive, media and memory.

Please note: on Fr 05.10.2007, the day before ‘Media, Memory and the
Archive’, Argos and INC are organizing the conference ‘Video Vortex:
Responses to YouTube’ with Lev Manovich, Nora Barry, Keith Sanborn,
Tomas Rawlings & Ana Kronschnabl, Simon Ruschmeyer, Peter Westenberg,
Johan Grimonprez. Others tbc.
More info soon

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