Archiving and preserving media art. Best practices in Spain: the case of Espacio P and MediaLab Madrid archive
Archiving and preserving media art practises are among the contemporary challenges of digiti-zation, preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage.On the one hand, it is necessary to propose solutions for preserving the digital in our contemporary world. This issue involves two problems of eno...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2025 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) |
| Repositorio: | Docta Complutense |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:docta.ucm.es:20.500.14352/121705 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/121705 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | 930.251 009 316.722 351.853 Archiving Preserving Media art Espacio P MediaLab Madrid Humanidades Diseño de bibliotecas y archivos 62 Ciencias de las Artes y las Letras |
| Sumario: | Archiving and preserving media art practises are among the contemporary challenges of digiti-zation, preservation and dissemination of cultural heritage.On the one hand, it is necessary to propose solutions for preserving the digital in our contemporary world. This issue involves two problems of enormous complexity. One involves analogue documents that are digitized, and the other involves documents of digital origin. This circumstance entails de-veloping specific preservation strategies that also allow for a possible need for recovery, which often involves software or hardware issues.On the other hand, archiving implies generating internationally shared practices, languages, and procedures to guarantee interoperability, the sharing of documents, their optimal location, and, therefore, to ensure their accessibility.In this study, we present and analyse the creation of the archives of two of the most pioneering and emblematic projects in the Spanish context of new media art, Espacio P and MediaLab Madrid. Two archives, which, on the other hand, are the first and forerunners in the scientific application of archival practices for the creation of media art archives, as will be shown throughout the study presented here. In the case of Espacio P, as well as being one of the first artist-run spaces in Spain, they also developed artistic practices that involved the use of technologies, such as video art. In relation to MediaLab Madrid, it was a genuine, disruptive, and innovative space in the practices of the first interactive technologies in the digital context of the early 21st century in Spain.This work aims to expose the work processes carried out for the creation of both archives, their protocols and documentary languages, as well as the challenge of the media art thesaurus. |
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