Digitising Contemporary Art
EMAF is a partner of the international project DCA – digitising contemporary art, which will digitise contemporary art for the European art and culture portal “Europeana” and post it on the internet.
21 museums and art institutions and four technical partner institutions will spend thirty months digitising around 27,000 works of art and roughly 2,000 contextual documents, enabling visitors to access them online.
This way, EMAF will make significant works from the past accessible to a wide audience.
The project is being coordinated by PACKED vzw, centre of expertise in digital heritage in Brussels and is co-financed by the European Commission within the CIP - ICT Policy Support Programme.
Participating Museums and Art Institutions
Belgium: argos – centre for art and media (Brussels), MAC’s – Museum of Contemporary Art of the French Community of Belgium (Grand-Hornu), Mu.ZEE – Collection of the province of West Flanders and the City of Ostend (Ostend), Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium (Brussels) Germany: EMAF – European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück), HfG – Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe), transmediale (Berlin) Greece: Frissiras Museum (Athens), MMCA – Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art (Thessaloniki), National Gallery-Alexandros Soutzos Museum (Athens) Island: National Gallery of Iceland (Reykjavik), RAM – Reykjavík Art Museum (Reykjavik) Croatia: MMSU – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka (Rijeka) Latvia: Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (Riga) The Netherlands: Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen (Rotterdam), NIMk – Netherlands Institute for Media Art (Amsterdam) Austria: Ars Electronica (Linz) Poland: WRO Art Center (Wroclaw) Portugal: Fundação de Serralves (Porto) Slovenia: MG – Moderna Galerija (Ljubljana) Spain: Antoni Tapiès Foundation (Barcelona)
Technical Partners
NTUA – National Technical University of Athens (Athens, Greece, Multimedia Lab Ghent University – IBBT Interdisciplinary Institute for Broadband Technology (Ghent, Belgium), Ubitech – Ubiquitous Intelligent Technical Solutions (Athens, Greece), DCA is co-funded by the CIP-ICT Policy Support Programme of the European Union.
Lichte Momente
Film and media art at Heger-Tor-Viertel, Kunsthalle Osnabrück and at Felix-Nussbaum-Haus in Osnabrück.
The outdoor video art exhibition LICHTE MOMENTE projects this year for the thirteenth time works by international artists on house walls and facades. In Osnabrück’s old town, visitors will encounter art that can otherwise only be seen in a museum under this year’s LICHTE MOMENTE motto “Body Hacking”.
Installationsansicht, Lichte Momente 2019
Angela von Brill
Installationsansicht, Lichte Momente 2019
Angela von Brill
Installationsansicht, Lichte Momente 2019
Angela von Brill
With works by Stine Deja, Eva Papamargariti, Filip Custic and Younghee Shin.
28 November - 31 December 2020
Mediaartbase
The subject of archiving Media Art is increasingly gaining in importance amongst international experts. Although a large number of artistically valuable works have been created in recent decades, they are rarely captured in existing art archives. For this reason, the German Federal Cultural Foundation decided to fund the mediaartbase.de project, for which the European Media Art Festival (EMAF), the documenta Archive Kassel with the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival and ZKM | Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe have joined forces.
Mediaartbase.de is a database for Media Art that is making collections from the three project partners’ archives available to a wide audience.
Over 7,000 titles from past festivals have already been compiled in the EMAF database. More than 800 films/videos have been digitised, making the EMAF archive one of the most outstanding sources on the history of experimental film and video work since the beginning of the 1980s.