Documenting the Interactive Documentary Webinar

The webinar invites artists and heritage professionals to discuss the preservation of interactive documentaries.

Over the past years, <a href="https://www.idfa.nl/en/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">IDFA DocLab</a>, <a href="http://opendoclab.mit.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">MIT Open Documentary Lab</a> and the<a href="https://www.beeldengeluid.nl/en" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision</a> have co-organised sessions about the long-term preservation of the varied, interactive, immersive productions that feature in IDFA DocLab’s festival programme. These interactive works that come to life through cutting-edge technologies, live connection to the web and user interaction pose exciting questions about the ephemerality of digital art, the role of digital preservation in artistic practices and the possibilities for closer collaboration between artists and heritage organisations.

This webinar will present preservation challenges from the varied perspectives of artists, archivists and curators. Speakers from international contexts will discuss how documentation efforts for interactive works have been put into practice and we will hear from artists who face preservation challenges in their artistic practices.

<h3>Preliminary Programme</h3>16:00 - 16:10 CET Welcome from Jack McConchie and Tom Ensom (Tate Modern) and Caspar Sonnen (IDFA Doclab)16:10 - 16:30 CET Artist Perspective on Digital Preservation and Documentation Challenges by Katerina Cizek (artist)16:30 - 17:00 CET Update or Die, redux! by William Uricchio &amp; Sarah Wolozin, MIT Open Documentary LabThe MIT Open Doc Lab and Centre Phi’s <a href="https://phi-centre.com/en/event/update-or-die/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Update or Die conference</a> (organised together with Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision and IDFA’s Doclab) provided an environmental sketch of preservation lessons gleaned from the worlds of digital art and computer games. What’s happened since? This session will offer a quick report from the trenches as we see it from the Lab's position in the field, including lessons learned from <a href="https://docubase.mit.edu/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Docubase</a>. These include project selection criteria, coping with everything from software updates to broken links, and the larger challenge of documenting a dynamic field. 17:00: 17:10 CET Break17:10 - 17:35 CET Archiving the Dynamic Web: Servers and Browsers by Claudia Röck and Eoin O’Donohoe , Netherlands Institute for Sound and VisionBrowser emulations enable future users to render certain obsolete websites where current browsers fail while server-side archiving bypasses the issues state-of-the-art crawling tools have with dynamic web content by getting files directly from the server. This talk will report on the ongoing research into these preservation methods performed within the context of two projects supported by the <a href="https://www.netwerkdigitaalerfgoed.nl/en/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Dutch Digital Heritage Network</a>. 17:35 - 18:00 CET Panel Discussion: Between Archival and Artistic Practices. Participants - Katerina Cizek (artist), William Uricchio (MIT Open Documentary Lab) and Jesse de Vos (Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision). Moderator - Will Massa (BFI).How do interactive documentaries challenge archival assumptions about web archiving and digital preservation? How does documentation as a preservation strategy enable us to consider the maker’s perspective? A panel of speakers from memory institutions and artistic community will address these questions and consider the roles and responsibilities of documentary makers and archivists and opportunities for closer collaboration.18:00 - 18:20 CET Lightning Talks - Visualising two decades of VPRO Backlight documentary series: Reuse as Preservation Strategy by Bregtje van der Haak and Johan Oomen - Archiving the architecture of Saydnaya: using Webrecorder to capture 3D-spaces and ambient audio by Anisa Hawes- Exploring 6DoF audio capture for sound art documentation by Guillaume Boutard and Catherine Guastavino- Non-Technical Challenges of Preserving VR Artworks by Osman Serhat Karaman18:20 - 18:30 CET Closing

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The webinar is initiated by the Preserving Interactive Media Group, in collaboration with MIT Open Documentary Lab and IDFA DocLab. The Preserving Interactive Media Group is an international group of experts concerned with sharing expertise on the preservation of immersive art forms and buildings connections to the industry and artist community.

Image credits:<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/imagesforthefuture/4077742624/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> Images of the Future CC BY-SA 2.0</a>

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