Perttu Tapio Rastas (Finland) — media archivist in Finnish National Gallery, Central Art Archives; for a long time has been the senior curator in Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma where he’s still responsible for certain media art exhibitions and special programs; member of Ministry of Culture Art's Councils media art group.
Etienne Sandrin (France) — works at the new media department at Centre Pompidou, Paris, responsible for cultural projects, in charge of the New Media Space in the National museum of art, co-creator of the “New media encyclopaedia” web site, an European website devoted to the new media art.
Piotr Krajewski (Poland) — the founder and artistic director of WRO Media Art Biennale and chief curator of WRO Art Center, a senior lecturer at the Fine Arts Academies in Poznan, Department of Intermedia, and in Wroclaw Department of Art Education, the author of publications and texts about media art, cultural impact of the new technologies and the history of video art.
Mike Sperlinger (UK) — Assistant Director of LUX, London, which he co-founded in 2002, manages LUX's collection and works on exhibition, editing and publishing, education programmes, writes for magazines and journals, as well as for exhibition catalogues. He is the editor of two books: “Afterthought: New Writing on Conceptual Art” and “Kinomuseum: Towards An Artists' Cinema”.
Olga Shishko (Russia) — curator, researcher of media culture, Director of MediaArtLab Center for Art and Culture, under her leadership were published such works as “The Anthology of Russian Video Art”, “A View from the East. Interaction of Modern Art and the Internet”, “Transitland. The history of video art of Central and Eastern Europe”, catalog-research “Advanced Cinema I and II”.
Joseph Backstein (Russia) — Artistic Director of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and of the State Centre for Museums and Exhibitions ROSIZO, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art (Moscow), curator, author of numerous publications on contemporary art and culture.
Anna Gor (Russia) — Director of Volga region Branch of National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Art Manager of large-scale exhibition and art projects, author of about 150 local press publications, consultant in Cultural Policy, member of International Association of Art Critics (AICA, Paris); member of Contemporary Arts Council of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation; holder of the French Order of Arts and Literature.
Olesya Turkina (Russia) — Ph.D., critic, curator, Senior Research fellow at the State Russian Museum's Contemporary Art Department, St. Petersburg, writes teats for Russian and international publications and catalogs, since 2003 has been teaching video art at the Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences of St. Petersburg State University.
Alexandra Obukhova (Russia) — art historian, has worked for the Institute of Contemporary Art, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, one of the founders and the director of the Art Project Foundation, founded the Archives of Contemporary Russian Art, member of the advisory board of the Kandinsky Prize, the head of research department in Garage Center for Contemporary Culture.
Kate Jennings — Time-based media Conservator at Tate in London since 2005, has a Bachelor’s Degree in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London University and Master’s Degree from the University of Northumbria at Newcastle-upon-Tyne. She was awarded a two year Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship on the Advanced Residency Program in Photograph Conservation at the George Eastman House, Rochester NY, USA.
Peter Tolpin (Russia) — architect, curator of the architectural department of the Moscow Youth Council, graduate of the Moscow Academy of Design, the Moscow Architectural Institute (Moscow), Istituto Marangoni London (London) Shibaura Institute of Technology (Tokyo)
29-30 November 2012 The Manege Central Exhibition Hall
November 29, Thursday
1.30 pm Registration
2.15 pm The Conference opening
Marina Loshak (Art Director of Manege), Olga Shishko (Director of the Museum of screen culture MediaArtLab), Olesya Turkina — moderator of the conference (the State Russian Museum), the representatives of the French Embassy, the Embassy of Finland, the Polish Cultural Center, the British Council.
2.30 pm — The new space for media art. Presentation of the Media Library in the Central Manege
Olga Shishko, the Museum of screen culture MediaArtLab
Peter Tolpin, the Buro Tolpin Peter Architects
— Media art archiving now, not after apocalypse!
Perttu Rastas — the KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art (Finland)
— Alexander Obukhova — the Centre for Contemporary Culture Garage (Russia)
Coffee Break
4 pm — The Preservation of Digital Artworks at Tate Kate Jennings — the TATE (UK)
— The Collection of new media in the National Museum of Modern Art, Centre Pompidou
Etienne Sandrin — the Pompidou Centre (France)
— About the social modification of digital Media Joseph Backstein — Commissioner of the
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Russia)
6 pm Excursion of the Exhibition VIDEO HOLES: I do not know what it is I am
November 30, Friday
2.30 pm — The Active Art Archive Piotr Krajewski — Art Centre WRO (Poland)
— Media Library — as a new public space
Anna Gor — Volga branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Art (Russia)
— Preserving the Impossible Mike Sperlinger — the LUX Centre for film, video and digital arts (UK)
— The Media Library of the Future Olesya Turkina — the State Russian Museum (Russia)
Coffee Break
5 pm — Public discussion The experience, knowledge and collections. Networks of partners.
6 pm Excursion of the Exhibition VIDEO HOLES: I do not know what it is I am
7 pm — Lecture Reproductions are now better that the Originals by special guest Peter Greenaway (UK — the Netherlands)