Performance/Time-Based Media Research
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TIME-BASED MEDIA RESEARCH AND DOCUMENTATION
These links are meant to serve as a future resource and a guide for structuring a metadata-based archive of ephemeral artworks.
BAM / PFA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
brilliant archive of over 13,000 works, most with images.
"archival file formats for digital video"
excellent message string regarding strategies for preserving fragile media, with an emphasis on the works of Theresa Cha
Library of Congress
Digital Audio-Visual Preservation Prototyping Project
project dedicated to the preservation of sound and motion picture in a searchable digital format, with an emphasis on metadata
The Variable Media Network
preservation strategy for conceptual, minimalist and video art. developed at the Guggenheim. set up to build a network of institutions to develop and cultivate methods and strategies for the documentation and preservation of ephemeral media.
Franklin Furnace Archive
"The Unwritten History Project" features an excellent model for online documentation of ephemera, in searchable indexed format.
FINNISH NATIONAL GALLERY
CENTRAL ART ARCHIVES
Research and Documentation Projects
provides an excellent model for documentation of ephemeral media
NOMADS
non-profit new media collective dedicated to developing global pathways, real or virtual, connecting artists, institutions and audiences

THEATRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
Richard Rinehart Symposium Handout
paper on the documentation and preservation of performance

Open Archival Information System (OAIS)
conceptual framework for an archival system dedicated to preserving and maintaining access to digital information over the long term
Documentation as Conservation: The Process of Becoming and Sustaining Art
Judith Van Baron, Ph.D.
documentation as conservation
TREKANTEN VIDEO FORMIDLING
Art Documentation on Video
example of text documentation of performance art
Permanence Through Change:
The Variable Media Approach
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
downloadable as individual chapters or as a complete PDF file.
of particular interest, the chapter entitled "The Challenge of Variable" by John G. Hanhardt

 
Rhizome.org
artist-driven, Web-based
archive of new media art
Preserving the Rhizome ArtBase
Richard Rinehart, September 2002
paper discussing the electronic preservation of web-based and new media art.
discusses emulation as a preservation stragegy and the use of metadata as an organizational tool.
Global Performing Arts Consortium
GloPAC is an international organization of institutions and individuals committed to using innovative digital technologies to create easily accessible, multimedia, and multilingual information resources for the study and preservation of the performing arts.
Digital Research Unit
The Digital Research Unit in the School of Art and Design at The Nottingham Trent University was created in 1998 as an umbrella organisation serving the needs of several research outcomes in performance art which had independently pursued research interests based on developments in the digital technologies.
ARCHIVING THE AVANT GARDE: DOCUMENTING AND PRESERVING
VARIABLE MEDIA ART
consortium project to develop ways to catalog and preserve collections of digital media and performance art. site features many useful links to resources and organizations
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM Variable Media Initiative
Strategy for the preservation of ephemeral media, such as Conceptual, Minimalist, and video art.
performance-art.org
Performance Art Festival Archives
provides a framework for the archiving and organization of time-based media