Submission Deadline: November 15, 2024
The upcoming 5th Summit on New Media Art Archiving will take place at ISEA2025 (May 23-29, 2025) in Seoul, South Korea. The symposium will feature a Special Track on Digital Heritage, which will include the 5th Summit on New Media Art Archiving.
Submission Guidelines
https://isea2025.isea-international.org/submission/submission-guideline/
The 5th Summit aims to act as an incubator for innovative ideas and a hub for connecting like-minded individuals. It will address critical, theoretical, technical, and practical issues related to archiving new media artworks, information, and events physically and online.
Call For Proposals
Proposals must be submitted to the Special Track on Digital Heritage to be accepted into the 5th Summit on New Media Art Archiving. The topics should address issues related to online or physical archival practices, methodologies, challenges, opportunities, or technical advances in digital, electronic, or new media art archiving.
- Full and short papers with oral presentation, peer-reviewed - submit to Papers
- Panel or roundtable discussion, peer-reviewed - submit to Panels
- Archive Presentations (short lightning talks) - submit to Institutional Presentations
Possible Topics
- New directions in online archiving
- The challenges of physical archives
- New technologies for archiving
- Information exchange between archives
You are strongly advised to build upon the presentations and panels of the fist 4 Summits. For the content of the first 3 (2020, 2022, 2023) see the ISEA Symposium Archives at
https://www.isea-archives.org or https://isea-archives.siggraph.org
For the 4th Summit see https://zkm.de/en/event/2024/06/4th-summit-on-new-media-art-archiving
Background
The need to preserve the history of the rapidly evolving field of media arts has stimulated the development of a wide variety of archives around the world. Many museums, organisations, institutions and individuals with collections have developed physical and/or online archives in an effort to preserve important artefacts and document events and artworks. The field of digital and electronic art has expanded to include objects and experiences that challenge historical archival practices. Ever-evolving technological standards require a constant examination of what it means to preserve and document works that defy contemporary archival practices. In an effort to preserve new media artworks and make them accessible to future generations, we must constantly adapt to new means of consuming, disseminating, evaluating and preserving information.
Summit Partners
Over the past years, the Summit on New Media Art Archiving has been a cooperative effort led by representatives from the following archives:
- ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive
- Archive of Digital Art (ADA)
- Ars Electronica Archive
- Electronic Language International Festival (FILE) Archive
- ISEA Symposium Archives
- MEMODUCT Posthuman Archive
- ZKM | Archives
For further information on ISEA2025: https://isea2025.isea-international.org/
For more information on the New Media Art Archiving Summits: info@isea-archives.org