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BRIDGING KNOWLEDGE

Connecting New Media Art Archives

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BRIDGING KNOWLEDGE

Connecting New Media Art Archives

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FILE - ELECTRONIC LANGUAGE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL promotes, since 2000, spaces for exhibition and discussion of art appropriations with electronic technologies.

The exhibition aims to engage the public with experimental forms of art that are considered a borderline to our conception of what art can be.

www.file.org.br

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HISTORY

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ISEA 2020

FILE ARCHIVE and its participation in ISEA 2020

  • FILE's involvement with ISEA 2020 in Montreal.

  • ISEA2020 SUMMIT ON NEW MEDIA ARCHIVING

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FILEALIVE / ARQUIVOVIVO

Online meetings on March 29, 30 and 31, 2021

  • Focused on the challenges imposed by the process of archiving media art and metadata interconnection.
  • A White Report was produced with the main reflections raised by the specialized professionals.
  • Supported by the São Paulo state funding agency PROAC.

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ISEA /ACM SIGGRAPH and FILE

The Collaboration of ISEA / ACM SIGGRAPH

  • Collaboration with ISEA/ACM SIGGRAPH to organize metadata and taxonomies.

  • The progress and help from the meeting and discussing with the ISEA/ ACM SIGGRAPH (Bonnie, Jan, Wim, and Terry)

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TAINACAN IMPLEMENTATION

Tainacan – Wordpress Plugin

  • FILE ARCHIVE adopted Tainacan for the archive project
  • Tainacan is an open-source platform for managing digital collections.
  • Tainacan is a FREE software.
  • Works as a wordpress plugin
  • Tainacan adapts itself to the users needs, allowing collections’ personalization and configuration.

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FILE ARCHIVE is a FILE initiative that aims to make available and share its collection and bring together 23 years of achievements.

Throughout its history, FILE has built a unique collection; having held 53 exhibitions and exhibited more than 8,000 national and international works of artists from more than 48 countries.

archive.file.org.br

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NEST STEPS

  • Discussing and collaborating with other organizations is crucial for achieving this goal.

  • That is reason we are here to keep on going the discussion of Connecting Archives

The main goal of the archive project is the interoperability with other archives.

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FILEALIVE / ARQUIVOVIVO PROJECT, 

supported by EDITAL PROAC EXPRESSO LAB 

Doctoral research project “ARQUIVO VIVO”, 

by Paula Perissinotto | Post Graduate Program in Visual Arts at the University of São Paulo (PPGAV-USP) under the guidance of Professor Silvia Laurentiz.

Consulting in Informational Architecture and Software: Luciana Martins | Percebe, research, consulting 

and educational training 

Instagram | Twitter:

@filefestival

TAINACAN Project Coordination: Dalton Martins

Administrative and Financial Management Coordination: 

Fabiana Krepel

Graphic Design: Bruna Mayer 

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