[Frameworks] Video works unviewable due to lost apparatus?

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ZKM Karlsruhe Germany: They are collectinig old machines even as spare
parts. we gave them some of our old video equipment. They digitize old
arts-videos and save them on LTO tapes

  ZKM | Laboratory for Antiquated Video Systems

  The ZKM | Laboratory for Antiquated Video Systems, founded in 2004, is the
only such research facility in Europe. Here methods are developed to restore
decades old videotape and rare tape cassette formats which are largely no
longer playable. With equipment consisting of more than 300 devices, the
laboratory is in the position to convert almost 50 various video formats
from the mid-1960s to the 1980s into high-quality digital form and so secure
them for the long-term.

  The goal of the laboratory is the scientific restoration, preservation and
archival storage of the ZKM's singular holdings with the help of equipment
from private and public sources: a digital Noah's Arch that saves media art
from vanishing.

  Works of video art that in many cases have not been showable for more than
30 years, or only in bad copies, can now be seen again in their original
quality. The same is true of rare video documentation of art events from the
1960s and 70s. The rescued audio-visual material is made available to the
public at exhibitions, in DVD editions and in the collections of the ZKM |
Media Library.][

  http://on1.zkm.de/zkm/stories/storyReader$5575



Best Regards
Hannes









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Von: FrameWorks [mailto:frameworks-bounces at jonasmekasfilms.com]Im Auftrag
von Fred Truniger
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 15. Mai 2013 13:49
An: Experimental Film Discussion List
Betreff: Re: [Frameworks] Video works unviewable due to lost apparatus?


Hi there
there's been a show in the Kunstmuseum Lucerne (Switzerland) in 2008 with
video-art from the 70ies and 80ies (Swiss Video) curated by a group of art
historians and restaurators. the catalogue has texts also on the
difficulties of presenting such work after 20-30 years. there is an english
version of this with the ISBN 978-3-03764-053-1.
it's been published through jrp ringier and distributed also in the US.


Schubiger, Irene: Schweizer Videokunst der 1970er und 1980er Jahre. Eine
Rekonstruktion.
English:
Reconstructing Swiss Video Art from the 1970s & 1980s


see e.g.: http://www.artbook.com/9783037640548.html


cheers!
Fred




Am 15.05.2013 um 10:24 schrieb Lundgren:


  I know that once on this list somebody mentioned that there was a Andy
Warhol work that was done on a video system which had no surviving video
players. I've tried to search the list unable to find any information. Does
anyone know of this and have a decent (preferable academically
scrutinize-able) source for it?

  Or those anyone have examples of other famous artist with video works (or
similair) "lost" due to the fact that we don't have any machines to watch it
anymore?

  Björn Lundgren
  Sweden
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