www.gama-gateway.eu/

Screening of Selected Works
Installation in the Brucknerhaus
Eight European media art archives and collections are networked within GAMA portal. With it they provide a common online research platform and an improved access to media art. The content in the portal ranges from early net.art in Hungary to documentations of the Ars Electronica Festival, from French and Dutch media art and installations to video art from Slovenia and experimental film from Sweden. In the History Loungethe archives are screening highlights from their collections.

For instance works by Lars Arrhenius, Yael Bartana, Robert Cahen, Gerard Cairaschi, Mounir Fatmi, Toshio Iwai, Ema Kugler, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Cecilia Lundqvist,Vincent Meessen, Jean-Gabriel Périot, Sašo Podgoršek,Semiconductor,Shelly Silver,János SugárandGianni Totiwill be presented.

The GAMA-Partners:
Akademia Górniczo-Hutnicza, Cracow (PL),Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Vienna (AT), Atos Origin s.a.e., Madrid (ES), ARGOS centre for art & media, Brussels (BE), C3 Center for Culture & Communication Foundation, Budapest (HU), CIANT International Centre for Art and New Technologies, Prague (CZ), Filmform Foundation, Stockholm (SE), Heure Exquise! International center for video arts , Mons-en-Baroeul (FR), Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst Zürich (CH),Hochschule für Künste Bremen (DE),Hogeschool voor de Kunsten Utrecht (NL), IN2 Search Interfaces Development Ltd., Bremen (DE), Les Instants Vidéo Numériques et Poétiques, Marseille (FR), Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Medien.Kunst.Forschung., Linz (AT), Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam (NL), SCCA-Ljubljana, Center for Contemporary Arts (SI), Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (DE),Technologie-Zentrum Informatik (TZI), Universität Bremen (DE), Universitat de Barcelona - Laboratori de Mitjans Int eractius, Barcelona (ES).

Archiving Media Art: Politics and Strategies
Workshop and Launch of the GAMA Portal
Kunstuniversität, Kollegiumgasse 2
5. September 2009, 14.00- 17.30 Uhr

Archives and collections of media art are closely related to the institution’s profile and mandate. Within the workshop experts discuss the significance of the institutional setting with respect to the creation of the repositories and their future perspectives. Additionally, on the basis of recent research activities, experts and artists present new ways of documentation of media art which tend to integrate the user experience into a documentation strategy for media art works - or even into the works themselves. On this occasion the new European online portal, the Gateway to Archives of Media Art (GAMA), is launched and presented.

Speakers: Annet Dekker (Virtueel Platform, NL), Anna-Karin Larsson (FilmformFoundation, SE), Lioba Reddeker (basis wien, AT) Gerfried Stocker (Ars Electronica, AT), Matt Adams (Blast Theory, GB), Gabriella Giannachi (University of Exeter, GB), Caitlin Jones (Free curator and media theorist, US), Lizzie Muller (University of Technology Sydney, AU)

Moderators: Katja Kwastek (Ludwig Boltzmann Medien.Kunst.Forschung., AT), Andreas Spiegl (Akademie der Bildenden Künste Wien, AT);

Concept: Gabriele Blome (Ludwig Boltzmann Institut Medien.Kunst.Forschung., AT) and Gaby Wijers (Nederlands Instituut Voor Mediakunst, NL).