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For the fourth consecutive year, the DOCAM Research Alliance, in collaboration with the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, presents an international summit on the issues surrounding the documentation and conservation of technology-based works of art. Programmed over two days, the Summit takes place on October 30 and 31, 2008, at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. This year, the Summit is preceded by an international Symposium on October 29.

DOCAM’s fourth annual Summit

October 30 and 31, 2008
Tanna Schulich Hall, New Music Building
Schulich School of Music, McGill University
527 Sherbrooke W.

Free admission

Thursday, October 30, 2008

9:00-9:15 Registration

9:15-9:30 Opening remarks

Don McLean (Dean, Schulich School of Music, McGill University)

Alain Depocas (Director, DOCAM Research Alliance: Documentation and conservation of the media arts heritage)

9:30-11:00
Moderator: Louise Poissant (Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), co-chair of DOCAM’s Pedagogical Committee)

Case Studies: Works by Nam June Paik and John F. Simon, Jr.
Mona Jimenez, Sarah Resnick, Yvonne Ng (New York University)

L’affirmation des stratégies de préservation d’une œuvre d’art médiatique par l’entremise de l’entrevue d’artiste
Richard Gagnier, Émilie Boudrias (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), DOCAM’s Conservation and Preservation Committee)

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:45
Moderator: Madeleine Lafaille (Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN), chair of DOCAM’s Cataloguing Structure Committee)

Cataloguing and Preserving Greg Lynn’s Embryological House at the CCA
Howard Shubert, Ivanka Iordanova, Alexis Lenk (Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), DOCAM’s Conservation and Preservation Committee)

Études de cas en structure de catalogage : Max Dean et Raffaello D’Andrea, The Table: Childhood (NGC)
Geneviève Saulnier, Marie-Ève Courchesne (National Gallery of Canada (NGC) and the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM), DOCAM’s Cataloguing Structure Committee)

[ Special presentation ]
Launch of issue 13 of .dpi, Studio XX’s electronic periodical: « Documenter l’oubli, art et archives aujourd’hui »
Chantal Dumas (Editor-in-chief), Émilie Houssa (Guest editor)

12:45-14:15 Lunch break

14:15-15:45
Moderator: Will Straw (McGill University, co-chair of DOCAM’s Pedagogical Committee and chair of the Technological Timeline Committee)

On the Couch: Capturing Audience Experience
Rolf Erwin Wolfensberger (Museum of Communication, Berne)

Research on Revolution: A Preservation Case Study in the Scope of Inside Installations
Gaby Wijers (Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam)

15:45-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:30
Moderator: Alain Depocas (Daniel Langlois Foundation, chair of DOCAM’s Documentation Committee and director of the DOCAM Research Alliance)

Between Real and Ideal: A Documentation Case Study for David Rokeby’s Giver of Names
Caitlin Jones (New York)

Website Launch of Shifting Polarities: Proposing a Canon of Canadian Electronic Media Art, 1970-1990
Caroline Langill (The Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD), Toronto)

The Digital Workfile
Andrea Kuchembuck (DOCAM’s Documentation Committee)

17:30 End of Day One

Friday, October 31, 2008

9:00-9:30 Registration

9:30-11:00 – CASPAR
Moderator: Guillaume Boutard (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique / Musique (IRCAM), Paris)

Introduction: CASPAR (Cultural, Artistic and Scientific knowledge for Preservation, Access and Retrieval)

Distance Liquide, A Case Study of a Fully Archived Acousmatic Work
Johann Holland (Université technologique de Compiègne (UTC), Compiègne / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France)

Long-term Preservation for Artistic Communities: How to Interact with a Technical Framework?
Bruno Bachimont, Erik Gebers, Johann Holland (Université technologique de Compiègne (UTC), Compiègne / Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), France)

11:00-11:15 Coffee break

11:15-12:45 – CASPAR (continued)

Fitting Artistic Testbed Data in the CASPAR Model
Michal Maša, Pavel Smetana (International Centre for Art and New Technologies (CIANT), Prague)

From Mustica to MustiCASPAR
Guillaume Boutard (Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), Paris)

Conclusion (CASPAR)

12:45-14:15 Lunch break

14:15-15:45
Moderator: James Turner (École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI) de l’Université de Montréal, chair of DOCAM’s Terminology Committee)

Developing Vocabulary Tools for New Media Art Documentation
Corina MacDonald (DOCAM’s Terminology Committee)

Le Répertoire des arts et littératures hypermédiatiques du NT2
Alice van der Klei, Frédérique Dubé, Paule Mackrous, Amélie Paquet (NT2 : Nouvelles technologies, nouvelles textualités, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM))

15:45-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:30 – Keynote Address

Keynote Speaker: Antoni Muntadas (Barcelona / New York)

Respondent: Richard Gagnier (Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), chair of DOCAM’s Conservation and Preservation Committee)

17:30 Closing remarks

Alain Depocas (director of the DOCAM Research Alliance)

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