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17.11.2011 12:40

Internationale Erklärung zum Schutz der Elektronischen Gegenwartskunst

Mag. Ingrid Ladner Stabsstelle Kommunikation
Donau-Universität Krems

Im Anschluss an den internationalen Kongress zur MedienKunstGeschichte "Re:wire" in Liverpool im Oktober wurde diese Woche in Österreich, Großbritanien und Australien ein Appell an Regierungen,
Kulturpolitik und Einrichtungen der Forschungsförderung verabschiedet, die Verantwortung der öffentlichen Hand zur systematischen Erhaltung und internationalen Erforschung der zeitgenössischen Kunst nicht weiter zu vernachlässigen. Ohne konzertierte Schritte der öffentlichen Kunstmuseen und eine adäquate Forschungsförderung der Geisteswissenschaften droht der Totalverlust von fünf Dekaden internationaler Kunstproduktion.

Unterschriften können auf http://www.mediaarthistory.org geleistet werden.

Media Art Needs Global Networked Organisation & Support
An International Declaration

State of Affairs

Digital technology has fundamentally changed the way art is made. Over
the last forty years, Media Art has become a significant part of our
networked information society. Although there are well-attended
international festivals, collaborative research projects, exhibitions
and database documentation resources, Media Art research is still
marginal in universities, museums and archives. It remains largely
under-resourced in our core cultural institutions.

As a result of rapid changes in technology, many major works made even
10 years ago can no longer be shown or are disappearing without a trace.
If this situation is not addressed, we face losing an art form that is a
central part of our post-industrial digital culture. To date, systematic
global preservation and documentation campaigns do not exist.

Many important online documentation and research projects are also
disappearing from the web. As they falter, we risk losing their valuable
material forever. Contemporary scientific research relies on access to
shared data. The same is true of the Arts and Humanities, which lack a
concerted international policy for sustainability and support of the
digital heritage, such as exists partly in the natural sciences.

Several science disciplines have developed large collective projects to
address the challenges and opportunities of our time by way of networked
digital environments, based on a sustainable and international support
structure. International Media Art research needs similar global
organisation and collaboration.

Goals

a.) Establish international and sustainable funding structures

Therefore it is essential to establish international and sustainable
funding structures that can guarantee the persistence of these valuable
resources, and to make use of networked collaboration to archive key
data in a cooperative process of knowledge transfer between artists,
institutions and researchers internationally. While many nations are
devoting funds for interdisciplinary e-research, we urgently need global
networked collaboration in Media Art research.

Such an international structure/alliance needs the actively supported
membership of media art organisations, archives and individuals. It
should be supported with adequate funding and expertise from the
existing networks of funding agencies, archives, online initiatives and
research institutions.

b.) Supporting an International Association/Institution for Shared Data

We urgently need global networked collaboration in Media Art research
across the aforementioned networks. We need as many bridges into society
as possible: archives, conferences, text repositories, collective
database documentation, and preservation.

This alliance will promote collaboration and advocate the
sustainability, understanding and appreciation of media art heritage by:

· Recognizing and building upon existing knowledge and resources

· Providing and fostering channels of communication

· Enabling the international research community to create/upload/access data to be shared.

· Encouraging peer exchange and addressing the new challenges of Media Art

· Developing scientific technologies for documentation and preservation of Media Art

· Providing inspiration and resources for curators, artists, scholars, educators and audiences

· Supporting the Media Art History network, its conference series, text repositories and scientific publications

· Promotion of new ways of understanding media art, science, technology and its histories

Only when we develop systematic strategies to address these challenges
will we be able to fulfil the task that digital culture and its research
demands of us in the 21st Century.

Signing Individuals / Instructions

Governments, universities, research institutions, researchers, artists,
academics, funding agencies, foundations, libraries, museums, archives,
learned societies and professional associations who share the vision
expressed in this Declaration are invited to join the signatories that
have already signed the Declaration.

Chair. Prof. Dr. Sean CUBITT, Winchester School of Art, Southampton, UK
Chair. Prof. Dr. Oliver GRAU, Image Science, Danube University Krems, Austria
Chair. Prof. Dr. Ross HARLEY, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Prof. Dr. Christiane PAUL,The New School, New York, USA
Prof. Dr. Diana DOMINGUES, Universidade de Brasília, Brazil
Prof. Dr. Lev MANOVICH, University of California, San Diego, USA
Prof. Dr. h.c. Peter WEIBEL, Chairman and CEO ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe
Chair. Prof. Jeffrey SHAW, School of Creative Media, City University Hong Kong
Prof. Dr. Roy ASCOTT, University of Plymouth, UK
Prof. Dr. Frieder NAKE, University of Bremen, Germany
Dr. Martin WARNKE, Leuphana University, Germany
Prof. Mike STUBBS, Director of FACT Liverpool, UK
Dr. Stephen JONES, Stephen Jones & Associates P/L (Video Conservation), Sydney,Australia.
Dr. Andy WILLIAMSON, Digital Strategist and Commentator, UK
Prof. em.Itsuo SAKANE, Institute of Advanced Media Arts and Sciences, Tokyo,Japan
Winnie FU, Curator and Chairperson of Microwave International New Media Arts Festival, Hong Kong
Prof. Dr. Barbara Maria STAFFORD, Georgia Institute ofTechnology, Atlanta, Ga.
Rafael LOZANO-HEMMER B.Sc., Independent artist, Mexico, Madrid, Montreal
Dr. Andreas BROECKMANN, Director of the Leuphana Arts Program, Germany
Prof. Lanfranco ACETI, Goldsmiths and Sabanci University, UK / Turkey
Ass. Prof. Ianina PRUDENKO, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Andreas LANGE, Director of the Computerspielemuseum, Berlin, Germany
Prof. Dr. ZHANG Ga, The New School / Tsinghua University, US and China
Prof. Stephen PARTRIDGE, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Universityof Dundee, UK
Dr. Nelson VERGARA, National University of Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
Prof. Dr. Paul THOMAS, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Adj. Prof. Alessandro LUDOVICO, Academy of Art Carrara, Editor in chief of Neuralmagazine, Italy
Dr. Vince DZIEKAN, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Prof. Dr. Darren TOFTS, Swinburne University, Melbourne Australia
Prof. Dr. Christa SOMMERER, Professor for Interface Culture, University of Art and Design Linz, Austria
Prof. Dr. Laurent MIGNONNEAU, Professor for Interface Culture, University of Art and Design Linz, Austria
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anna MUNSTER, National Institute for Experimental Arts, Sydney, Australia
Vanina HOFMAN, PhD researcher at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Founder of Taxonomedia,Spain / Argentina
Dr. Michele BARKER, COFA, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Dr. Darko FRITZ, freelance curator, researcher and artist, Croatia / Netherlands
Assoc. Prof. Nina CZEGLEDY, University of Toronto, Canada
Prof. Paul Alsina GONZÁLEZ, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain
Prof. Mikel ROTAECHE y GONZÁLEZ de Ubieta, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Gabriela BALDOMÁ, Directora del Instituto de Investigación, Conservación y Restauraciónde Arte Moderno, Argentina
Prof. Dr. Ryszard W. KLUSZCZYNSKI, University of Lodz, Poland
Dr. Raivo KELOMEES, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn, Estonia
Dr. Mike LEGGETT, Creativity & Cognition Studios, University of Technology,Sydney
Prof. Dr. Anne-Marie DUGUET, University of Paris 1, France
Prof. Dr. Will STRAW, Department of Art History and Communications Studies, McGillUniversity, Canada.
Steve DIETZ, President and Artistic Director of Northern Lights.mn, USA
Dmitry BULATOV, Curator at the National Center for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad, Russia
Prof. Dr. Gunalan NADARAJAN, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, USA
Ass. Prof. Maurice BENAYOUN, University Paris 8, France
Prof. Dr. Cleomar ROCHA, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, Brasil
Prof. Dr. Akihiro KUBOTA, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan
Andres BURBANO, PhD researcher at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Eric KLUITENBERG, Chief of Tactical Media Files, Chelsea College of Art and Design,London
Prof. Dr. Edward A. SHANKEN, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Andreia MAGALHAES, PhD researcher at the Fine Arts Faculty, Porto, Portugal
Prof. Dr. Felipe Cesar LONDOÑO, International Image Festival, University of Caldas,Colombia.
Prof. em. Frank POPPPER, University of Paris VIII,Paris, France
Ass. Prof. Dr. Caitlin FISHER, York University,Toronto, Canada
Prof. Dr. Timothy Conway MURRAY, Rose Goldsen Archiveof New Media Art, Cornell University, New York
Prof. Dr. Douglas KAHN, National Institute forExperimental Arts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Ass. Prof. Dr. Baruch GOTTLIEB, transmediale, Germany
Prof. Dr. Angel KALENBERG, Instituto Valenciano deArte Moderno (IVAM), Spain

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