No Time To Wait - S04E22 - Francesca Colussi, Ana Ribeiro - From Artwork to File & Back to Artwork
Channel: MediaArea
Date: 2020-01-25

Francesca Colussi & Ana Ribeiro (Tate) presents "From ARTWORK to FILE and back to THE ARTWORK"

Tate has around 700 Time Based Media artworks in the collection including video, software, performance, film, sound and slide based works. These artworks spend most of their life sitting on a shelf, fragmented into different components (media, equipment, sculptural elements, documentation, etc.). All these components are waiting for the moment they will be reunited again and installed in a gallery to exist as an artwork.
In this presentation we will be focusing on artworks that have digital audio visual files as their main components, we will introduce the way these works evolve within the collection and how we care for their digital components from archival masters to exhibition format files. We will explore issues around keeping the authenticity of an artwork when preparing the media for each specific combination of contexts and display equipment. To conclude we will reflect on the way we are documenting the decision making process and the tools we use when creating specific digital video files to activate artworks. 
What information must we capture to keep a history of the artwork and its past displays, as well as decisions made in specific circumstances? What information can be extracted automatically, and which decisions must be more thoroughly documented? How will we use this information, and what is the most helpful format?

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