Approaches, Strategies and Theoretical and Practice-Based Research Methods to investigate and archive video art. Some reflections from the REWIND projects

This paper will discuss methodologies, approaches and issues, emerging out of three major research projects that have investigated early histories of video art in Europe: REWIND (2004 ongoing), REWIND Italia (2011-2014) and EWVA (2015-2018). The paper will discuss how the projects have engaged with the history of the apparatus, the identity and status of the artworks, preservation methods, and the legacy of these video artworks today. A particular focus will be on semi-structured questionnaires for interviews structured to capture oral histories, memories and recollections, that in some cases would have been otherwise lost to future knowledge and the uncovering of lost artworks and their available documentation. The speakers - directly involved in the projects - will discuss solutions, risks and experiences encountered in the projects and future research perspectives for re-covering, collecting, archiving and narrating the histories of early video art in Europe. The paper will discuss also different practice-based research methods, platforms and engagement strategies, including re-installation and re-enactment.

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Laura Leuzzi

Adam Lockhart

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Publication date: August 2019

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DOI: 10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.41

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Conference name: RE:SOUND 2019 – 8th International Conference on Media Art, Science, and Technology

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Conference location: Aalborg, Denmark

Conference date: August 20-23, 2019

Conference sponsor: Electronic Workshops in Computing (eWiC)

Conference theme: Media Art, Science, and Technology

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[1] S. Ball 2013 The end of television: David Hall’s 1001 TV Sets (End Piece) The Moving Image Review & Art Journal (MIRAJ) 2 1 1 April 2013 132 139(8)

[2] R. Barilli 1975 Introduzione L. Patella Io sono qui. Avventure & cultura 1975

[3] J. Blackwood 2016 REWINDItalia Stephen PartridgeLaura Leuzzi Media-N 12 1 http://median.newmediacaucus.org/mestizo-technology-art-design-and-technoscience-in-latin-america/rewinditalia-edited-by-stephen-partridge-and-laura-leuzzi/ 10 September 2019

[4] C. BlaseP. Weibel 2010 Record Again!: 40yearsvideoart.de Part 2 Hatje Cantz Ostfildern

[5] A. Cavarero 2000 Relating Narratives. Storytelling and Selfhood Routledge New York and London

[6] S. Cook 2007 The Logic of Historical Reenactment: re-speaking and remediating in Contemporary Art S. Himmelsbach Playback: Simulierte Wirklichkeiten / Playback: Simulated Realities Oldenburg Edith-Russ-Haus fur Medienkunst

[7] S. CubittS. Partridge 2012 REWIND British Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s John Libbey Publishing New Barnet

[8] B. Di Marino 1994 Luca Patella. Con e senza peso Roma

[9] K. Deepwell 2014 Felicity Sparrow: forming Circles n. paradoxa 34 86 95

[10] R. FrielingW. Herzogenrath 2006 40 years videoart.de - part 1. Digital Heritage: Video Art in Germany from 1963 until the present Hatje Cantz Ostfildern

[11] D. Lancioni 2013 Anni ’70. Arte a Roma Iacobelli Editore Roma

[12] L. Leuzzi 2012 Notes on Doppelgänger http://www.rewind.ac.uk/documents/ElaineShemilt/ES001.pdf 11 September 2019

[13] L. Leuzzi 2015 Some notes on Luca Maria Patella’s video L. LeuzziS. Partridge REWINDItalia Early Video Art in Italy John Libbey Publishing New Barnet

[14] L. LeuzziV. Catricala 2015 The Chronology of Video Art in Italy L. LeuzziS. Partridge REWINDItalia Early Video Art in Italy John Libbey Publishing New Barnet

[15] L. LeuzziS. Partridge 2015 REWINDItalia Early Video Art in Italy John Libbey Publishing New Barnet

[16] L. LeuzziE. ShemiltS. Partridge 2015 Body, Sign and Double. A Parallel Analysis of Elaine Shemilt’s Doppelganger, Federica Marangoni’s The Box of Life and Sanja Ivekovic’s Instructions N1 and Make up - Make down V. Catricala Towards a New Definition of Arts in the Age of Technology Gli Ori Pistoia

[17] L. Leuzzi 2016 Sulla re-installazione e l’esposizione di film e video d’artista degli anni Settanta e Ottanta: alcuni spunti su un dibattito critico aperto tra pratica e teoria Imago. Studi di cinema e media year vii 14 2016 2017 217 232

[18] L. Leuzzi 2019 Re-enacting Early Video Art as a Research Tool for Media Art Histories O. GrauJ. HothE. Wandl-Vogt Digital Art through the Looking Glass New strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities Edition Donau Universitat Krems -Austrian Academy of Science Press Krems

[19] L. LeuzziE. ShemiltS. Partridge 2019 EWVA European Women’s Video Art in the 70s and 80s John Libbey Publishing New Barnet

[20] A. Lockhart 2012 A Brief History of Video - Time and Base S. CubittS. Partridge REWIND — British Artists’ Video in the 1970s & 1980s John Libbey Publishing New Barnet

[21] C. Lonzi 1969 Autoritratto De Donato Editore Bari

[22] E. Panofsky 1934 Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait The Burlington Magazine for Connoisseurs 64 372 Mar 1934 117 119 122 127

[23] C. Pinkola Estes 1992 Women Who Run With the Wolves Ballantine Books

[24] H. Reckitt 2017 Generating Feminisms: Italian Feminisms and the Now You Can Go Program Art Journal 76 3 4 101 111 DOI:10.1080/00043249.2017.1418495

[25] A.L. ReesD. CurtisD. WhiteS. Ball 2011 Expanded Cinema: Art, Performance and Film London Tate Publishing 2009 Rewind+Play. An Anthology of Early British Video Lux London

[26] R. RinehartJ. Ippolito 2014 Re-collection. Art, New Media, and Social Memory MIT Press

[27] C. G. Saba 2007 Arte in videotape: art/tapes/22, collezione ASAC-La Biennale di Venezia: conservazione, restauro, valorizzazione Silvana Cinisello Balsamo

[28] M.M. Tozzi 2015 Rewind Italia. I primi anni della Videoarte in Italia. Un libro indispensabile Arslife https://www.artslife.com/2015/12/30/rewind-italia-i-primi-anni-della-videoarte-in-italia-un-libro-indispensabile/ 30 September 2019

[29] G. WijersE. RodrigoR. Coehlo 2003 The sustainability of video Art: Preservation of Dutch Video Art Collections The Foundation for the Conservation of Modern Art Amsterdam

[30] Youtube 2010 stephen partridge: Monitor - transcription https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DV6bR-49qt0 30 September 2019

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