[-empyre-] ETC to Rose Goldsen and on and on

[Murat Nemet-Nejat]

Hi, how much of these tapes are still readable, does anyone know?

Ciao,
Murat

On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Renate Terese Ferro <rferro at cornell.edu>
wrote:

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> Wecome Kristin,
> It turns out that the ETC video tape wall was just the tip of the iceberg
> and as Sherry, Ralph and Tim and a team of amazing people at the Cornell
> Library can attest that it has taken months to pack, move, catalog, and in
> many cases reformat work.  The documentation that accompanies this work as
> well as the equipment that was innovated and built at the center is even
> another set of issues to consider.  You can track earlier posts of this
> months conversation at
> http://lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au/pipermail/empyre/2015-September/date.htm
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>  We also have an -empyre FACEBOOK.  Friend us because later today I will
> be posting some photos that Sherry and Peer Bode have been circulating.
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> My own artistic storage shelves of of Super 8 films, Hi-8, video
> cassettes, DVD¹s and digital hard drives  I am find at times impossible to
> manage. Early in the discussion this month I mentioned that Lynn Hershman
> hds shared with me when asked why her archives were so incredibly large
> and inclusive, ³If I did not archive my collection who will.²  Sherry and
> Patrick Lichty made responsive posts but Sherry in her wisdom grace
> reminded artists to ask themselves where they wanted to spend their time
> and resources.
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> I have decided I want to make more work and not get dragged down by the
> details of archiving.  Though I always assimilate notes on production and
> archiving that will be for someone else to assimilate or maybe not.
>
> I recently saw a link to Hal Foster¹s new book  Bad New Days: Art,
> Criticism, Emergency, out now from Verso
> <http://www.versobooks.com/books/1961-bad-new-days>.
> http://theartnewspaper.com/comment/reviews/books/159118/
> The review I saw recounts Foster¹s description of the recent trend in
> museums to re-enact old performance based work in essence making zombie
> art.
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> My FACEBOOK response was
> --All historical work is dead isn't it? It is the place of the museum and
> the role of the viewer/receiver of the work to enliven a new connection
> and therefore new life. Will have to put this on my to read list.‹
> What I did not add which I should have was that ARCHIVES such as the Rose
> Goldsen Archive of New Media Art UNLIKE MUSEUMS allow historical work to
> breathe, to become interactive with the researchers, artists, and many
> others who want direct access to it.  Unlike a museum that exhibits and
> makes available a very small portion of their holdings, the essence of the
> archive is to open up new networks for historical work.  Here is a short
> article Tim and I wrote and presented at the Digital Arts and Culture
> Conference a few years ago.
>
> https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2565799j
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> Looking forward to more of your posts.
> Renate
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> Hello empyre,
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> I just joined the community. Today after reading Renate's post and having
> recently visited my storage space, I thought... Wow. I must have produced
> equally as many video tapes as ETC has entered into the Rose Goldsen
> Archive of New Media Art at Cornell Library. An entire wall of my storage
> space is dedicated to 3/4, beta SP, laser disk, VHS, SVHS, Video-8, and
> miniDV tapes, plus CDs, DVDs, and hard drives, the majority of which are
> full of material I recorded at ETC since my first visit in 1995. Now
> imagine how many other artists went to ETC and do the math on how many
> boxes of tapes are out there that passed through the playheads of ETC
> decks!
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> Kristin
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> Renate Ferro
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> On 9/21/15, 8:22 PM, "kristin lucas" <kristinlucas at gmail.com> wrote:
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