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Abstract
This article outlines some reflections about digital reality, contemporary art production, and possible ways of archiving and constructing memory through and for a historiography of contemporary art in light of the project Archivo Español de Media Art / Spanish Archive of Media Art (AEMA/SAOMA). In the first part I propose a definition and an account of media art and its artifacts. In the second part I present and describe the SAOMA project, and its antecedent, the MIDECIANT museum project, and discuss the conceptual and technical requirements of an archive devoted to the media arts. In the third part I sketch some interconnections between the concepts of memory and archive with reference to new media art and outline the difficulties that are inherent to any effort to define and archive these art forms. The final section includes some concluding thoughts and a brief explanation of what I regard as the most urgent needs for any archival project in the realm of digital art (digital restoration, documentation, and narrative).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.11588/dah.2021.7.84785
Para la versión en español: https://doi.org/10.25025/hart09.2021.06
Author
Juan Alonso López Iniesta
holds a PhD in Fine Arts from the Universidad de Castilla- La Mancha. Designer and artist specialized in electronic interfaces and computational art. Professor of Drawing (on leave of absence) jccm. Visiting Professor at Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in the area of Architectural Graphic Expression (Interactive Design and Projects). Member of the research groups liynmedia (Linguistics and New Media) and gic (Cultural Interfaces Group).