Mélanie Hogan: Crashing the Archive: A Research-Creation Intervention into the SAW Video Mediatheque (2012)

“Video Cache is a research creation intervention emerging from my doctoral research into defunct and crashed online archives, in the context of Canadian video art, which has a rich history of self-preservation and of documenting itself as an art movement. From major art galleries to personal collections; Canada has long privileged video as a tool for creative resistance, expression, and experimentation. Video Cache serves to track the SAW Video Mediatheque (based in Ottawa), from its launch to its crash and back online again, by updating its context and addressing in a practical way what it means to ‘activate’ the online archive. Much of my intervention occurred after the crash and during the two years the site was offline. It involved varied methodological entry points including in depth interviews with SAW Video staff and media archaeology to locate digital traces of the site. Key here is Video Cache’s success in simultaneously documenting the project and intervening to address archival loss: while it was the ‘cache’ that made the Mediatheque’s traces visible and re-visit-able, it was the ‘crash’ that signalled its ongoing archival value.” (from Abstract)

PhD thesis
Department of Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
April 2012

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Kinema Ikon catalogue (2005) [English/Romanian]

Kinema Ikon is the oldest active experimental art group in Romania. Founded in 1970 as a multimedia atelier at the art school in Arad it is currently hosted by the Arad’s History Museum and Art Museum. Coming from the various fields (art, literature, architecture, photography, music, programming), its members created in over four decades an astonishing variety of works ranging from experimental film, video art, through hypermedia to interactive installations.

The catalogue accompanied the Kinema Ikon retrospective exhibition held at the MNAC, Bucharest in October-December 2005, curated by Raluca Velisar and Stefan Tiron. The first volume covers the experimental films and videos produced by the group, the second volume features hypermedia works, and the third volume is dedicated to Intermedia magazine published since 1994.

Editor Kinema Ikon
Concept and design by Calin Man
Publisher MNAC – The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Bucharest; Museum Arad; Centrul Cultural Judetean Arad
102 / 104 / 48 pages

authors
Kinema Ikon on the Monoskop wiki

PDF (Volume 1)
PDF (Volume 2)
PDF (Volume 3)
View online (Issuu.com, Volume 1)
View online (Issuu.com, Volume 2)
View online (Issuu.com, Volume 3)

Juan Downey: El ojo pensante / The Thinking Eye (2010) [Spanish/English]

Catalogue of the exhibition of a US-based Chilean pioneer video artist. During his career Downey created an extensive body of work that also includes electronic and video sculptures, photography, painting, drawing, printmaking, performance, installation and writing.

Curated by Julieta Gonzalez
Co-curated and Edited by Marilys Belt de Downey
Texts by Carla Macchiavello, Valerie Smith, Julieta Gonzalez, Nicolas Guagnini
227 pages

Exhibition website
Wikipedia

PDF (English section pp 173-217; 4 MB, updated on 2014-9-14)