RESEARCH PROJECTS

The Inter Media Art Institute regularly embarks on comprehensive research projects in the fields of art history, technology studies and conservation science dedicated to its own collection and beyond.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

About the Noise in the Archives

A Diversity-Oriented Processing of the Audiovisual Collection of the IMAI Archives.

Fringe of the Fringe

A conference that seeks to bring together queer-feminist and antiracist strategies for archiving and cataloging the audiovisual documents of punk, postpunk, new wave, and industrial.

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Other Research Projects

Monika Funke Stern_Zum Glück gibt's kein Patent_1984_patentamt!

Monika Funke Stern, Zum Glück gibt’s kein Patent, 1985, Filmstill © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2023 für Monika Funke Sterni

Date

01.01.2023 - 31.12.2024

Typ

Projekt

About the Noise in the Archives

A Diversity-Oriented Processing of the Audiovisual Collection of the IMAI Archives.

Archiv Stiftung IMAI – Inter Media Art Institute, © Ulrich Leistner, Axel Wirths, 2022i

Date

15.12.2021 - 30.06.2022

Typ

Projekt

The Cassette Underground

A research project about archiving the alternative distribution channels of the cassette underground in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Akiko Hada, The Fall of a Queen or the Taste of the Fruit to Come, 1991, Videostill (edited)

Date

01.06.2021 - 31.05.2022

Typ

Projekt

Fringe of the Fringe

A conference that seeks to bring together queer-feminist and antiracist strategies for archiving and cataloging the audiovisual documents of punk, postpunk, new wave, and industrial.

Date

01.03.2021 - 31.12.2021

Typ

Projekt

IMAI Play

The video art channel IMAI-Play relies on a participatory presentation of the videos from the IMAI archive and invites users to curate, comment and discuss their own video programs.

ARCHIV DER STIFTUNG IMAI

FOTO © ANDREA SIGRIST 2018i

Date

01.08.2018 - 29.02.2020

Typ

Projekt

Video Online Archive

cataloging/ presenting/ communicating
A project as part of the eHeritage funding program of the BMBF

Tagung: Video Art Distribution. From Alternative Art Market to Commercialization

Date

08.05.2018 - 09.05.2018

Typ

Projekt

Video Art Distribution

This international conference addressed the interactions between art production, art market, and exhibition activity for media art.

AUSSTELLUNGSANSICHT "BILDER GEGEN DIE DUNKELHEIT"

FOTO © IVO FABER, VG BILD-KUNST BONN, 2016i

Date

01.01.2016 - 31.12.2017

Typ

Projekt

Long-Term Archiving

Two-year long-term archiving project at the imai foundation.

ELECTRONIC CAFé INTERNATIONAL | DOCUMENTA IX, KASSEL 1992

Date

01.01.2015 - 01.01.2018

Typ

Projekt

The Media Art Agency 235 MEDIA

Its significance in terms of the conditions for producing, establishing an economic basis for, and internationalizing media art.

Date

01.01.2018

Typ

Case study

Case Study on Cataloging Media Art

In cooperation with d:kult Düsseldorf

STUDIO AZZURRO

Date

01.01.2007 - 01.01.2009

Typ

Projekt

Concretions of the Ephemeral

A series of case studies conducted at the IMAI since 2006 concerning, among other things, such concepts as original, staging, performance, and interactivity.

Video Art History

Research on the context of the video artworks that the Inter Media Art Institute received when the foundation was established by the media art agency 235 Media.

ELECTRONIC CAFé INTERNATIONAL | DOCUMENTA IX, KASSEL 1992

Date

01.01.2015 - 01.01.2018

Typ

Projekt

The Media Art Agency 235 MEDIA

Its significance in terms of the conditions for producing, establishing an economic basis for, and internationalizing media art.

Date

08.05.2018 - 09.05.2018

Typ

Projekt

Video Art Distribution

This international conference addressed the interactions between art production, art market, and exhibition activity for media art.

Year

2020

Typ

Book

Video Visions

An anthology on the unique role of the media art agency 235 Media on the art market from the 1980s to the present.

Restauration Case Studies

The Inter Media Art institute has conducted several comprehensive reconstructions of media art installations

NAN HOOVER LIGHT COMPOSITION: DOCUMENTA 8 (1987) | © FOTO ELISABETH JAPPE, 2012

Date

18.11.2012

Typ

Case study

Case Study 5: Nan Hoover, Light Composition

The IMAI has conducted a feasibility study on the recnstruction of this work and in the process grappled with the problem of restoring time-based works of art.

KATHARINA SIEVERDING | TESTCUTS I | 2010

Date

13.10.2010

Typ

Case study

Case Study 4: Katharina Sieverding, Testcuts I

The installation Testcuts I by Katharina Sieverding was conceived and realized by the artist at the IMAI for the exhibition Projected Data Images: Testcuts as part of Quadriennale 2010.

BILL SEAMAN, 3D-COMPUTER-ZEICHNUNG VON EXCHANGE FIELDS

Date

20.08.2010

Typ

Case study

Case Study 3: Bill Seaman, Exchange Fields

In collaboration with the Institut für Restaurierungs- und Konservierungswissenschaften of the Fachhochschule Köln and the agency 235 MEDIA GmbH, an appropriate restoration and restaging of Bill Seaman’s Exchange Fields were worked out and implemented.

GARY HILL "IN SITU" (1986) INSTALLATIONSANSICHT

Date

13.02.2007

Typ

Case study

Case Study 2: Gary Hill, In Situ, 1986

The mixed-media installation In Situ (1986) was restored in cooperation with the artist Gary Hill and then exhibited in the solo exhibition "Strange Trajectories". The last time the installation had been shown previously was in 1990.

STUDIO AZZURRO, IL NUOTATORE (VA TROPPO SPESSO AD HEIDELBERG), 1984

Date

01.11.2006

Typ

Case study

Case Study 1: Studio Azzurro, Il nuotatore (va troppo spesso ad Heidelberg), 1984

"Il nuotatore" (1984) is the first media-art installation that the IMAI restored and restaged as part of the IMAI restoration project in cooperation with restorers, art historians, technicians, and the artists.

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