Transformation Digital Art 2022

The sixth International symposium on the preservation of digital art

17 March 2022 - 18 March 2022
online

Transformation Digital Art is a LI-MA symposium on ongoing research and practices in the field of media art archiving, documentation and preservation. Held online in March 2022, Transformation Digital Art was designed as an opportunity to share practices concerning both artist-led and institutional strategies geared towards conservation and future presentation of born-digital and software based art. 

This edition revolved around the theme of collaborative knowledge building and sharing. The more knowledge gathered and presented online, the more urgent it becomes to develop sustainable networks capable of preserving and nourishing it – to discover new ways of working together, and of sharing knowledge as well as responsibility. 

For Transformation Digital Art 2020, LI-MA built an online platform through which the events of the two day symposium and context information were presented. The same platform was used for the 2022 edition of the symposium. Audiences and participants were invited to explore the contents of the platform as well as engage in conversation and share thoughts and ideas via an open chat as well as through designated etherpads for each workshop and symposium day. The online platform remained open for visitors until August 1st, 2022.

Transformation Digital Art 2022

Transformation Digital Art 2022 included contributions by the following participants:

Gaby Wijers (Director, LI-MA), Gabriella Arrigoni (Research fellow, Victoria & Albert Museum, Olivia Brum (LIMA), Kati Kivinen (Curator, Kiasma), Bas van Koolwijk (Artist), Dušan Barok (Artist, Researcher), Natalie Kane (Victoria & Albert Museum), Yuhsien Chen (Save Media Art), Mauricio van der Maesen de Sombreff (LI-MA), Sanneke Huisman (Curator, LI-MA), Hanno Lans (Wikimedian in Residence), Lozana Rossenova (Digital Designer, Researcher), Andreas Kohlbecker (Data Specialist, Center for Art and Media), Bart Magnus (Expertise Officer, The Flemish Institute for Archives), Sandra Fauconnier (Wikimedian, Project Director at OpenRefine), Geert Lovink (Media Theorist, Internet Critic), Cornelia Sollfrank (Artist, Researcher, Artistic Archivist), Elizabeth Stainforth (Lecturer in Heritage Studies), Giselle Beiguelman (Artist and Professor at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil). 

Transformation Digital Art 2022

Reflections on the symposium:

To fold and unfold data closet. A reflection on Day 1 of Transformation Digital Art 2022 Symposium by Patricia Black
Reflection on Day 2 of Transformation Digital Art 2022 Symposium by Angel Gurtsieva, Anastasia Katsman, Liska Brams

Visit our YouTube channel to watch back the published programmes of the Transformation Digital Art 2022 Symposium.

Transformation Digital Art Symposium 2022 is supported by AFK, Mondriaan Fonds, Mediakunst.net.