keywords : Pedagogical activities

Documentation et conservation du patrimoine des arts médiatiques is a University course devised in collaboration with members of a vast multi-institutional and multidisciplinary research alliance. The latter is supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), through its Community-University Research Alliance Program (CURA). Under the direction of the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, this Seminar is primarily designed for students working towards a Masters degree in visual and media arts, art history, art conservation, communications, or museum studies.

The Seminar addresses questions,  challenges and issues related to the documentation and conservation of media arts, which museologists, artists, critics, art historians and theoreticians, as well as teachers and students, have to deal with.

In 2009, the DOCAM Seminar was held from January 12 to April 20, at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and instructed by Dr. Sylvie Lacerte, as part of the joint masters program in museums studies of UQAM and Université de Montréal. The Seminar is structured as a series of presentations by guest lecturers, followed by round-table discussions with the students.

* Please note that the course description & readings and the presentations from guest speakers are only available in French since the seminar was taught at UQAM.

View videos of the presentations :

	Nouveaux médias : enjeux éthiques et esthétiques Louise Poissant, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, UQAM, and Director of the Groupe de recherche en arts médiatiques (GRAM)
	Les questions de la documentation et du catalogage des œuvres à composantes technologiques au Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal – études de cas en catalogage pour DOCAM Anne-Marie Zeppetelli, archivist and registrar, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MACM)
	Visite au laboratoire de restauration du Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal Richard Gagnier, Head of the Conservation Department, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA)
	Les archives d’artistes : entre l’économie du don et le marché de l’art Vincent Bonin, archivist and independent curator
	Le commissariat d’exposition en arts médiatiques Sylvie Lacerte, curator and independent researcher
	Grégory Chatonsky Grégory Chatonsky, artist and guest lecturer, UQAM
	L’initiative des Médias Variables Alain Depocas, Director of the DOCAM Research Alliance, Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology
	Bioart et les défis de sa documentation et sa conservation Marianne Cloutier, research assistant for the DOCAM Pedagogical Committee, and PhD Candidate in Art History, UQAM

The following also took part in the Seminar:

Métadonnées et terminologie. Constitution d’un glossaire pour les chercheurs de l’Alliance DOCAM
James Turner, École de Bibliothéconomie et sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal

Historiographie et théorie de la documentation et de la conservation des arts médiatiques; Une étude de cas : Experiments in Art and Technology
Sylvie Lacerte, curator and  independent researcher

Acquisition, catalogage et conservation de fichiers numériques
Howard Shubert, Curator of Prints and Drawings
et Romain Guedj, Curator of Photography, Canadian Centre for Architecture

Access the course description & readings
Access the 2009 Annoted Bibliography (pdf)

Student essays (forthcoming)