The search of archives and collections as a way for digital curating and do not forget historical artworks

Abstract

[EN] Digital curation does not only mean to have online exhibitions on digital nature works or projectsbut also being able to recirculate all those historical Media Art works that have been scattered indifferent places or just forgotten and unknown. For that purpose, many researchers, professors,artists and other specialists seek to lighten the lack of information and documentation aroundMedia Art in Spain, usually through different R&D projects. Thanks to the possibility offered bythese projects, it is enabled to research on the historical Media Art archives and collections, thepreservation and, especially, the dissemination by means of digital supports. In Spain, this is therelevant case of the work made on L’angelot and MECAD in Barcelona and Medialab Madrid in thecapital, as some examples by the Spanish Archive of Media Art (SAOMA) project. Actions such asthe identification, cataloging and labelling of the artistic works that belong to public and privatecollections, both historical and contemporary had taken place. The main result of this project is theonline Spanish Network of Archives and Collections of Media Art, as a convergence space for thecooperation on its management, preservation and dissemination through the support of technicalinstruments in the way to internationalization.