SPANISH ARCHIVE OF MEDIA ART

Currently, MIDE researchers (with its current director, Ana Navarrete as Principal Investigator) lead this research project, as part of the National project entitled “Vocabularies for a Network of Archives and Collections of Media Art and its Effects: Metaliteracy and Knowledge Tourism” (with the professor of the Carlos III University of Madrid, Miguel Ángel Marzal as its Principal Investigator). It was won in the call for R&D projects of the state program for the promotion of scientific and technical research of excellence (State Subprogram for Knowledge Generation) of the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness.

The Spanish Archive of Media Art aims to locate, classify and promote all art and new media production developed in Spain or deposited in collections and centers in Spain from its origins (in the mid-20th century) to the present. With the support of the MINECO VOREMETUR project of excellence (Vocabularies for a Network of Archives and Collections of Media Art and its effects: metaliteracy and knowledge tourism), the Carlos III University of Madrid and the University of Castilla-La Mancha, with teams made up of researchers, professors and professionals, work on the search, compilation, cartographic construction and promotion and dissemination of Spanish Media Art.

AEMA IMAGEN FLOTANTE

AEMA/SAOMA represents one more action within those put into operation by the international network of centers, institutions dedicated to this artistic field, being attached to the Ibero-American network managed by the Ibero-American Observatory of Electronic and Digital Arts (OIADE).

The project for the construction and dissemination of the AEMA/SAOMA tries to alleviate the deficit of documentation and information regarding Media Art in Spain, through the identification, cataloging and labeling of artistic works belonging to public and private collections focused on these artistic practices, both historical and contemporary. It includes all those that reveal the origins of Media Art, from copy art, video art or computer art to New Media Art.

→ If you want to know more about AEMA/SAOMA, click here to access the Spanish Archive of Media Art website.