5th Summit on New Media Art Archiving
ISEA2025, Seoul
Mon, May 26 – Tue, May 27, 2025
- Language
- English
MAY 26, 2025
Seoul National University Museum Of Art (Auditorium)
As digital and electronic arts continue to evolve, they challenge traditional archival methods, necessitating ongoing adaptation to new technologies. The 5th Summit on New Media Archiving brings together scholars, practitioners, and archivists to address the preservation and archiving of new media artworks—a vital component of our cultural heritage. This summit serves as an important platform for discussing the theoretical and practical challenges associated with archiving new media artworks and events.
The 5th Summit on New Media Art Archiving, is a collaborative initiative involving the following partners: ISEA Symposium Archives, ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive, Archive of Digital Art (ADA), Ars Electronica, Electronic Language International Festival (FILE) Archives, MEMODUCT Posthuman Archive, and the ZKM Archives. This dedicated group aims to connect archives around the globe and enhance the archiving and preservation efforts of new media art.
Abbreviations (IT: Invited Talks, FP: Full Paper, AP: Archive Presentation, SP: Short Paper, P: Panel)
| Session | Theme | Time | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Session 1 10:00 – 11:25 | Opening | 10:00 | IT: | Introductions and Welcome |
| Welcome | 10:05 | AP: | The History of Art Center Nabi: Positioning Itself as a Mediator Soh Yeong Roh | |
| Session Chair: Bonnie Mitchell | Interconnections and Sound | 10:10 | SP: | Futures Forgotten: Rhizomatic Archiving of Immersive Memories Zeynep Abes |
| 10:25 | SP: | Sharing Attachments: Collective approaches to cataloguing distribution-based audiovisual arts Linnea Semmerling | ||
| 10:40 | P: | Digital Preservation and Virtual Reconstruction of Architectural Acoustic Heritage Doyuen Ko, Sungyoung Kim and Hyeseung Shim | ||
| 11:25 – 12:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Keynote | |||
| Session 2 14:20 – 15:45 | AI & New Tools in Archiving | 14:20 | SP: | Ask Me Anything: Information Retrieval for Interactive Narrative Generation from Digital Archives Paul Heinrich Bethge and Jeffrey Shaw |
| 14:35 | FP: | “You Can’t Surprise Yourself!” Suggestion for Human-AI Collaboration When Retrieving from Audiovisual Collections Dominik Bönisch and Christian Geiger | ||
| 14:55 | SP: | Improving Historical Algorithm Recreation Through Systems Thinking: A Study Using Large Language Models and Early Computer Art Sean Carroll | ||
| Session Chair: Terry Chun Wong | ||||
| 15:10 | SP: | Archiving New Media Art with a VR Camera Kit Byeongwon Ha | ||
| 15:25 | FP: | Staging Ars Electronica Archive: Alternative Concept for Exploring Media Art in Education focusing on New Animation Art Juergen Hagler, Christl Baur and Emiko Ogawa | ||
| 15:45 – 16:00 | Break | |||
| Session 3 16:00 – 17:25 | Workshop Report | 16:00 | IT: | Report on the Minting, Displaying and Connecting Archives Through the Blockchain Workshop Aissa María Santiso Camiade |
| Archive Presentations | 16:05 | AP: | The History of the ISEA Symposium Archives Wim van der Plas, Bonnie Mitchell, Terry Chun Wong, Jan Searleman, Colby Jennings | |
| 16:10 | AP: | ACM SIGGRAPH History Archives: Progress and Next Steps Bonnie Mitchell and Janice Searleman | ||
| 16:15 | AP: | Ars Electronica Archive: Preserving the History of Digital Art and Innovation Anita Halbartschlager [Virtual] | ||
| 16:20 | AP: | The Evolving Archive of Digital Art (ADA) Oliver Grau [Virtual] | ||
| Session Chair: Dominik Bönisch | 16:25 | AP: | Archive & Reconstruction: ZKM Rebuilding New Media Art History Felix Mittelberger [Virtual] | |
| 16:30 | AP: | Legado.Ar: A Dynamic Archive of Experimental Visual Narratives María Alejandra Crescentino [Virtual] | ||
| 16:35 | AP: | Chinese Cyberfeminism Archive (CCA) ephemeral:data\ | ||
| 16:40 | AP: | BFI Our Screen Heritage Institutional Presentation Will Swinburne and Kristina Tarasova | ||
| New Media Art Reincarnation | 16:45 | FP: | Conserving Art Experience in Evolving Media Milieux: A Case Study of Light on the Net (1996/2024) Shigeru Kobayashi | |
| 17:05 | FP: | Toshio Iwai, Piano – as image media and Time Stratum Series: A Tale of (re)Creation Hiroko Kimura-Myokam | ||
MAY 27, 2025
Seoul National University Museum Of Art (Auditorium)
| Session | Theme | Time | Title | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Session 4 10:00 – 11:25 | Archives Presentations | 10:00 | AP: | Unlocking the Digital Canvas: The FILE ARCHIVE and Its Open Access Commitment Paula Perissinotto and Fabiana Krepel [Virtual] |
| Digital Heritage | 10:05 | P: | YOUR HOSTING SERVICE HAS BEEN DEACTIVATED: Persistence and Discontinuity in the Preservation of Latin American Media Arts Vanina Y. Hofman Matusevich | |
| Session Chair: Byeongwon Ha | 10:25 | SP: | Informal Archiving: The Space of Reverie and the Dispersed Art Object Avrokomi Zavitsanou | |
| 10:40 | P: | Digital Literature Archives in Latin America: Creative, Curatorial and Technical Choices Leonardo Flores, Verónica Paula Gómez, Marcos Wasem, José Aburto and Vinícius Carvalho Pereira | ||
| 11:25 – 12:30 | Lunch | |||
| 13:00 – 14:00 | Keynote | |||
| Session 5 14:20 – 15:45 | Connecting Archives | 14:20 | SP: | A Cross-Cultural Framework for New Media Art Archives Daechan Heo |
| 14:35 | P: | Preserving, Providing, Progressing: Access the Excess Lena Holub, Martin Honzik, Lev Manovich, Olga Shishko, Escher Tsai and Soh Yeong Roh | ||
| 15:20 | IT: | Panel on Connecting Archives: Workshop on New Media Art Archiving 2025 Bonnie Mitchell, Terry Chun Wong, Dominik Bönisch, Andreas Kohlbecker, Víctor Fancelli Capdevila, Lozana Rossenova | ||
| Session Chair: Wim van der Plas | ||||
| Closing | 15:40 | Concluding Remarks | ||