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Parallel session
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Title
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Behind the Scenes: Netherlands Media Art Institute / NIMk
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Type
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site-visit
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Date, time
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Friday 11th June, 9:30-12:00 (including travel)
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Organisation
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Ramon Coehlo, Head of post-production and video editing
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Gaby Wijers, Coordinator collection, preservation and related research
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Location
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Netherlands Media Art Institute / NIMk
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Participants in this session are to make their own way to the location in the morning. Please be at the location a few minutes ahead of time. In case of delay call the NIMk reception on +31 20 623710. Participants will leave at 11:30 from NIMk and be taken by tram to the symposium location.
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Description
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Building on a long history in production and presentation of video and installation art over the last 15 years, NIMk is carrying out a research programme regarding the preservation and documentation of media art: video art, installations and live events in order to identify and understand what it is that needs to be preserved and to develop new methods, tools, language and services to deal with this. NIMk carries out national projects to preserve and present (and to experience) both today and tomorrow the Dutch media art heritage and holds the main media art collection in Holland, the national repository and infrastructure. NIMk’s preservation team is also well known for initiating and participating in case study based research, international collaborative research projects and transfer of knowledge in the field of media art documentation and preservation. Participants of this session will receive a guided tour of NIMk’s collection in the mediatheque and (video) conservation department with demonstrations of the equipment used for conservation.
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Maximum number of participants: 20
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Biography
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Ramon Coelho is Head post-production and video editing at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam (NL). He is trained as graphic designer and video editor and has been inviolved in video production since 1980. From 1990 to 1996, he worked in the fields of video art preservation and technical production for national projects and travelling exhibitions, a.o. IMAGO. From 1997 on he participated in technical research, planning presentations and monitoring of projects for NIMk. Since 2005 also works free-lance (Ramon Coelho Video Projects) for various artists o.a. production and construction of video installations around the world for Marina Abramovic.
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Biography
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Gaby Wijers is Coordinator of collection, preservation and related research at the Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam (NL). She coordinated the project Preservation of Video Art in the Netherlands 2001-2003, participated in research projects as 404 Object not found, OASIS archive, Inside Installations, GAMA and currently in Inside Movement Knowledge and Obsolete Equipment. Selected publications: « Strategien und Fallstudien zur Erhaltung von Medienkunst durch das Netherlands Media Art Institute» In: Schweizer Videokunst der 1970er und 1980er Jahre, eine Rekonstruction. Zürich : jrp|ringier, 2009, Video documentation of installations (online course 2007) » ed. by Gaby Wijers, Karen te Brake-Baldock, Sami Kallinen, «The Sustainability of Video Art : Preservation of Dutch Video Art Collections», ed. by Gaby Wijers a.o., , SBMK : Amsterdam, 2003; since 2005 she edits the online newsletter Monitoring Media Art Preservation and is guest lecturer at the University of Amsterdam. Gaby is since 2008 head of the Steering Committee of the SBMK.
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