Preserving and exhibiting media art : challenges and perspectives

Content: Acknowledgements --
Introduction / Julia Noordegraaf --
Part I. History, Archaeology, Aesthetics, Archive: Theoretical Paths --
Introduction / Vinzenz Hediger --
1. Between Art History and Media History: A Brief Introduction to Media Art / Chris Wahl --
2. Media Archaeology: Where Film History, Media Art, and New Media (Can) Meet / Wanda Strauven --
3. Media Aesthetics / Dario Marchiori --
4. Media Art and the Digital Archive / Cosetta G. Saba --
Part II. Analysis, Documentation, Archiving --
Introduction / Julia Noordegraaf --
5. The Analysis of the Artwork / Dario Marchiori --
6. Methodologies of Multimedial Documentation and Archiving --
6.1. Enjoying the Gap: Comparing Contemporary Documentation Strategies / Annet Dekker --
6.2. Case Study: No Ghost Just a Shell by Pierre Huyghe, Philippe Parreno, and Many Others / Vivian Van Saaze --
6.3. The Artist\'s Interview as a Tool for Documenting and Recreating a Complex Installation: The Example of Mbube, an Audio-Installation by Roberto Cuoghi in the Museo Del Novecento, Milan / Iolanda Ratti --
6.4. MAXXI Pilot Tests Regarding the Documentation of Installation Art / Alessandra Barbuto, Laura Barreca --
Part III. Technological Platforms, Preservation, and Restoration --
Introduction / Cosetta G. Saba --
7. Technological Platforms --
Introduction / Simone Venturini --
7.1. The History and Technological Characteristics of Cinematographic Production and Reception Devices / Simone Venturini, Mirco Santi --
7.2. The History and Technological Characteristics of Video Production and Reception Devices / Alessandro Bordina --
7.3. Computers and Digital Reception Devices: History and Technological Characteristics / Tabea Lurk, Jorgen Enge --
74. Obsolete Equipment: Ethics and Practices of Media Art Conservation / Gaby Wijers --
8. Theories, Techniques, Decision-making Models: The European Context --
8.1. Operational Practices for a Film and Video Preservation and Restoration Protocol / Alessandro Bordina, Simone Venturini --
8.2. Operational Practices for a Digital Preservation and Restoration Protocol / Jorgen Enge, Tabea Lurk --
8.3. Case Study: The Conservation of Media Art at Tate: An Interview with Pip Laurenson (Head of Time-Based Media Conservation at Tate) / Julia Noordegraaf --
Part IV. Access, Reuse, and Exhibition --
Introduction / Barbara Le Maitre --
9. Exhibition Strategies --
Introduction / Barbara Le Maitre, Senta Siewert --
9.1. From Cinema to the Museum: A State of Affairs --
9.1.1. A \"Cinema Effect\" in Contemporary Art / Philippe Dubois --
9.2. Exhibiting Images in Movement --
9.2.1. Exhibiting/Editing: Dominique Pa̐ni and Programming at the Ciňmatḧque fraṅaise at the Turn of the Centenary / Sťphanie-Emmanuelle Louis --
9.2.2. The Expanded Archive: The MindFrames exhibition / Claudia D\'alonzo --
9.2.3. Exhibiting Film and Reinventing the Painting / Barbara Le Ma̋tre --
9.3. The Image Traveling across Territories: Cinema, Video, TV, Museum, the Web, and beyond --
9.3.1. On Passages Between Art and Cinema / Ariane No︠l De Tilly --
9.3.2. Across the Territories: Exhibiting Music Video / Senta Siewert --
9.3.3. Developing, Presenting, and Documenting Unstable Media at V2_ / Arie Altena --
9.4. New Dispositifs, New Modes of Reception --
9.4.1. Video Installations as Experiences in Montage / Ťřsa Faucon --
9.4.2. From the Film to the Map: Patrick Keiller and The City of the Future / Teresa Castro --
9.4.3. Site-specific Exhibition and Reexhibition Strategies: Max Neuhaus\'s Times Square / Elena Biserna --
9.4.4. From Archival Model to Exhibition Platform? Video Art As a Web Resource and the imai Online Catalogue / Renate Buschmann --
10. On Curating New Media Art / Sarah Cook --
Epilogue / Julia Nooroegraaf, Ariane No︠l De Tilly --
List of contributors --
Index.