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This archive represents an accumulating resource documenting events addressing media arts practice. A selection of presentations from two conferences which are central to the aims of the Dotcrawl site are included here. These will be added to in future monthly updates.

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Timeloop

14th April – 19th May, 2007

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Timeloop is a cross-venue programme exploring one of the most influential art forms of the twentieth century - video art. Timeloop presented new installations, rediscovered key works in the cultural heritage of video art, and involved talks within a German context of media art production. The programme was been built around “40yearsvideoart.de - Digital Heritage: Video Art in Germany from 1963 to the Present” (see www.40yearsvideoart.de) an initiative whose main goal was to address issues concerning the archiving and presentation of video art. These topics make up a central but often neglected chapter in recent art history. Apart from safeguarding existing stock and restoring historical material, the circulation and publication of video art was a further important aim of this project.

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The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction

June 2006

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The Work of Media Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction was a two-day symposium that took place in April 2006 which surveyed current projects concerned with preserving the history of media art and initiatives aimed at stimulating practices, networks, critical appreciation and knowledge associated with electronic and digital media arts.

This conference advanced strands from the 2005’s seminar ‘Video:Art:Scotland’ which looked at the uses of video in current artistic practice. An introduction and preface to the event mapped out a potted and incomplete history of experimental moving image in Scotland beginning in the early ‘70s. This chronology is partly embraced in the article ‘Absent Narratives’ which you can find in the ‘Resources’ section of this website, and in a timeline in this section of the Archive.

Day 1 of this event looked at the evolution of video technologies through analogue to digital formats, as well as presentations by artists that helped explore the nature and practice of the moving image and its current conditions within the ‘visual arts ‘scene’. The main drive was to re-examine the critical frameworks between current practice and its antecedents.

Speakers: Stephen Partridge (REWIND), Rudolf Freiling (40 Years Video Art), Tina Fiske (University of Glasgow), Mark Neville (artist, Glasgow), Daniel Reeves (artist, USA/Edinburgh), Chris Meigh-Andrews (University of Central Lancashire, Preston)Preston)Malcolm Dickson (curator, Glasgow).

Day 2 featured members of Mag.Net (Magazine Network of Electronic Cultural Publishers) - this documentation will be uploaded in a future online edition of Dotcrawl.

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Video>>Art>>Scotland

April 2005

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With the moving image dominating the international art world, this one day seminar looked at issues around the use of video in current practice and the distribution of electronic media within Scotland and beyond.

Is there a common denominator of what constitutes video art here or have questions about ‘defining an aesthetic’ been absorbed within a broader fine art arena? Are galleries still intimidated by technology driven art? What can we learn from models elsewhere?

Speakers included Su Grierson (artist and curator, Perthshire), Francis McKee (curator of Glasgow International), Theus Zwakhals (Montevideo, Amsterdam), Steve Bode (Film and Video Umbrella, London) and and Malcolm Dickson (Street Level, Glasgow). A DVD presentation by John Beagles was also included. You can view this by going to the Arcade section of this site.

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Lost and Found

Video Installations from the 70s and 80s

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