Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art

Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art is a research repository for new media art. It was founded in 2002 by Timothy Murray, Professor of Comparative Literature and English and Director of the Society for the Humanities.[1] It is located in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University Library and it is named in the honor of the late Prof. Rose Goldsen, a Sociology Professor at Cornell University and an avant-garde critic of pop culture, mass media and communication. The Rose Goldsen Archive provides access to detailed archival material that mirrors the historical changes which have happened in new media art in terms of its technological development and experimentation, throughout the years.[2]

General Collection

The archive’s collections include multimedia artworks that reflect the transformation of new media art practices from analog to disc-based and from there to networked and web-based application during the past decades.[2] The collections combine artworks produced on CD/ DVD-Rom, VHS/digital video and internet (online and offline holdings) as well as supporting materials, such as unpublished manuscripts and designs, digital and photographic documentation of installations and performances, digital ephemera, interviews, photographs, catalogues, monographs, and resource guides to new media art.[3] The general collection consists of various material about audio/ sound art, eco/ bio art, exhibitions and artist compilations, installations, interactive narrative and poetry, online listserv and internet art journals, performance, theory and critic, video art and cinema. A few artists whose work can be found in the general collection are: Hershman Leeson Lynn, Hill Gary, Iimura Takahiko, Lister Ardele, Snow Michael, Janet Cardiff, Chantal Akerman, Tashiro Charles, Barbier Annette, Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, Shu Lea Cheang, Quintanilla Grace. The collection contains work ranging from the 1960s up to the present day.

The Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections is located in the Carl A. Kroch Library; access is through Olin Library.

Special Collections

Apart from the general collection, the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art houses many special collections and fellowship competitions. Some of them are the following:
The Renew Media Fellowships in New Media, an annual competition for interactive dynamic media, was funded by Rockefeller Foundation in New Media Art from 2002. The Goldsen Archive serves as the repository for the digitized copies of this competition material, such as the proposals, slides, artists’ portfolios, other supportive material, etc. from 2003 to 2008.[4]
The Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art, a collaboration among the Goldsen Achive, the Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia at Cornell University Library and the Dongtai Academy of Art in Beijing, China consists of 360 hours of videotape that documents Chinese contemporary art, installation, performance, video, and rock n' roll from 1985-2002.[5] Some of the artists that are showcased in the collection are: Cui Jian, Du Zhenjun, Feng Mengbo, Li Xianting, Lin Yilin, Lu Shengzhong, Mou Sen, Song Dong, Song Yongping, Xu Bing, Yu Xiaofu, Zhang Dali, Zhou Shaobo, Chen Lingyang.[6]
The Yao Jui-Chung Archive of Contemporary Taiwenese Art contains the Taiwanese artist Yao Jui-Chung’s portfolio, 8,000 images of Contemporary Art Exhibition Postcards and Taiwan performance art.[7]
The "ETC: Experimental Television Center Archives" [8] is a collection with more than 3,000 artistic video tapes and DVDs. It contains works by artists from both the contemporary and first generation of video art. The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art has served as a repository for the Experimental Television Center's collection (1969-2011), since 2011. Some of the artists that are showcased in the collection are Barbara Hammer, Gary Hill, Jud Yalkut, Aldo Tambellini, Benton C Bainbridge, Irit Batsry, Alan Berliner, Kristin Lucas, Lynne Sachs, Michael Betancourt, Abigail Child, Laurence Gartel and Barbara Lattanzi, Emergency Broadcast Network, Nam June Paik, Kathy High,etc.[8]
Net Art: The Goldsen Archive provides access to a number of internet art collections. It is the off-line repository for the Turbulence.org archive,[9] a project of New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA), the Computerfinearts.com and the Infos 2000. In addition, the Archive serves as an on-line repository for the online journal of net.art, CTHEORY Multimedia[10] and the Ecopoetics online exhibition.[11]

Preservation

Because of the fragility and the complexity of the artworks,[12] most of which are born-digital and many of which interactive, the Archive focus on building archival strategies that endure the continuous access to all this fragile material. The Goldsen Archive is one of the six international digital art archives dedicated to Preservation and Documentation Strategies; other similar archives are Ars Electronica, Tate Intermedia, FACT, computerfinearts.com (which has its repository in Goldsen Archive) and Rhizome Artbase.[13] In addition, the Archive has signed the International Declaration "Media Art Needs Global Networked Organization and Support", sponsored by Media Art History. Org.[14] The Goldsen Archive has completed a National Endowment for the Humanities- funded preservation initiative that aims to make the access to complex interactive and digital born media artworks simple and more reliable which will allow these artworks to be used and viewed on modern computers.[15]

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References

  1. ↑ Murray, Tim. "Bio of Tim Murray". Society for the Humanities. Cornell University. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Narrative Section of a Successful Application" (PDF). National endowment for the humanities, Division of Reservation and Access. National endowment for the humanities. Retrieved 16 June 2015.
  3. ↑ Murray, Timothy. "About the project". Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. Cornell University Library. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  4. ↑ "Renew Media/Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships in New Media Art". Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. Cornell University Library. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  5. ↑ "Chinese Avant Garde Art Archive". Chinese Avant Garde Art Archive. Cornell University. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Biographies". Chinese Avant-garde Art Archive. Cornell University. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  7. ↑ "Yao Jui-Chung Archive of Contemporary Taiwanese Art". Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. Cornell University Library. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  8. 1 2 "Video library and archives of the Experimental Television Center (ETC)". ETC, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. Cornell University Library. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  9. ↑ Murray, Timothy. "NEA Collaboration Grant: Turbulence + Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art". HASTAC:Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory. HASTAC. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  10. ↑ Kroker, Arthur; Kroker, Marilouise; Murray, Timothy. "About the journal". CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA. Cornell University Library. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  11. ↑ Murray, Timothy; Shevory, Tom; Zimmermann, Patricia. "Ecopoetics Online Exhibition". Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. Cornell University Library. Retrieved 30 June 2015.
  12. ↑ About the fragility of digital media see:"Preservation 101: Media Preservation". Independent Media Art Preservation (IMAP). IMAP c/o Lehman College. Retrieved 18 June 2015. and "EAI Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting & Preserving Media Art:Preservation". Electronic Art Intermix. Electronic Arts Intermix. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  13. ↑ "Digital Art History Databases: Preservation and Documentation Strategies- Archives.". Ingo Studio: Paul Hertz. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  14. ↑ "Media art needs global networked Organisation & support – International Declaration". Media Art History. Media Art History. Retrieved 18 June 2015.
  15. ↑ Casad, Madeleine Imogene (April 2004). "Preservation and Access Framework for Digital Art Objects". D-Lib Magazine: The Magazine of the Digital Research. 20, Number 3/4 (In Brief). doi:10.1045/march2014-contents. ISSN 1082-9873. Retrieved 18 June 2015.

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