Archive
Ars Electronica holds one of the world’s largest archives of digital media art covering the last 30 years.
It consists of documentations of the Ars Electronica Festival since 1979, the archive of Prix Ars Electronica with submissions of artists since 1987, as well as documentation of projects of the Ars Electronica Futurelab and of exhibitions in the Ars Electronica Center and worldwide. Beside thousands of video- and audio recordings, numerous photographs, negatives, and slides are stored, as well as an extensive collection of print material including publications, posters, folders, and press material. With the reopening of Ars Electronica in January 2009, the archive had for the first time a climate-controlled room at its disposal, where ca. 60.000 physical records are located in over 378 meters of shelf space.
Inventory and conservation of analogue media and items
The archival storage of all material from the festival, Center, Futurlab and Prix, as well as the indexing and inventory is the main objective of the archive.
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Migration, backup and long-term preservation of data
The consolidation and preservation of data is one of the most basic and at the same time most difficult tasks, which have to be constantly updated and developed further. Read More
Digitisation of ORF recordings and internal video footage
Since the start of the festival in 1979 a large amount of video documentation material was collected.
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Development of a server-based, multimedia database
Purpose of the database is the inventory taking and scholarly research with the aim of mediating the history of Ars Electronica and digital/electronic art at large.
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Digitising Contemporary Art (DCA)
Duration: 01/2011-06/2013
The DCA project intends to enhance the online visibility of contemporary art as an essential expression and an invaluable building block of European culture, and to stimulate the interest of the general public with a stronger presence of contemporary art in the Europeana portal.
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Preservation and inventory of analogue photographies
Duration: 01/2011-12/2011
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Evaluation and Preservation of the analogue photographic collection of the Prix
Duration: 01/2012-12/2012
Main focus is the adequate storage of photographic and film material according to preservation standards, as well as the selective digitisation of the analogue photographic collection of the Prix Ars Electronica from 1987-1999.
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Archive
Team
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Tel +43.732.7272.47
archives@aec.at
Martina Hechenberger
Head of Archive
Theresa Schubert-Minski
Research and Project Management
Elvis Pavic
Digitizing and Data Management
Heinz Sambs
External Digitizing