Workshop Blog Post | 11. February 2025

Report from the 2025 Workshop on New Media Art Archiving

By Dr. Lozana Rossenova

The 2025 Workshop on New Media Art Archiving took place at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe from 5 to 8 February 2025. The special topic of the workshop – Globally Connecting New Media Art Archives – set the stage for the organisation of thematic sessions and expert working groups with over 60 attendees representing a wide variety of research and cultural organisations from across Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. 

Rooted mainly in communties and events formed around the ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) annual conference, the impulse for the workshop initiation was driven by seven archives: ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive, Archive of Digital Art (ADA), Ars Electronica, FILE (Electronic Language International Festival), ISEA Symposium Archives, MEMODUCT, and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe. The workshop brought together additional individual experts and institutions from Germany and beyond specialising in the collecting, archiving and preservation of (new) media art, a loose term referring to a wide range of creative work, experimental formats, festivals and performances operating at the intersection of art, science and technology. Dr Lozana Rossenova from the Open Science Lab, TIB Hannover, reports on the proceedings of the workshop and how latest developments in the context of NFDI4Culture, Base4NFDI (KGI4NFDI, TS4NFDI), and ECCCH can facilitate the goal of interconnecting media art archives in sustainable, future-proof ways. 

Read the full report and next steps on the TIB blog here: https://blog.tib.eu/2025/02/10/connecting-media-art-archives/