Monday 18 May 2009 / 10.00 – 17.00 / Amsterdam (FULLY BOOKED)

Expert meeting for practitioners, researchers, and policy makers in various fields related to online archives, primarily in the Netherlands but with an international focus. Based on 6 short presentations of case studies (below), we will raise a series of specific questions. How can a community establish its own archive beyond an institutional structure? Does a community driven approach with social software help develop innovative strategies for group archiving? How can new and traditional tools best be merged to increase access and improve usability?

with the participation of

Olga Goriunova – Runme.org Reversion
Eric Kluitenberg – The Living Archive
Alessandro Ludovico – Neural.it
Aymeric Mansoux - art.deb (GOTO10)
Christiane Paul – Whitney Artport
Esther Weltevrede – Archiving web dynamics
Monika Fleischmann & Wolfgang Strauss, at the Fraunhofer IAIS – MARS Exploratory Media Lab – Netzspannung.org

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Part of the meeting, Aymeric Mansoux will lead the art.deb group. Some discussions will be joined with Olga Goriunova’s group on Runme.org

The art.deb group will examine strategies and approaches for archiving and exhibiting software art in the context of FLOSS. The logistics of using live distributions, repositories, virtual machines and servers as more stable and lasting infrastructures for software art will be explored, as well as discussing artistic implications, such as the non-refactoring needs to preserve original art versus software rot and decay. This discussion will be key practical research for this new GOTO10 project, and will be documented and fed into the project’s development beyond the event.

Runme.org is a repository and platform for software art that has grown organically through close relation to artists and to the ReadMe festivals of software art. Starting in 2001 it has provided a central point of reference and discussion for the development of aesthetics of code; glitch art; activist software; speculative software; alternative visualisation tools; funny examples of hackerly software; digital folk culture; and many other kinds of software art. The site is both inclusive of different aesthetic and cultural approaches, but also rigorous in the way it selects particular projects for highlighting.

more information: http://www.virtueelplatform.nl/en/agenda#2489