Global Media Heritage
Archival collaborations with international media centers and collections have provided the deep core of Goldsen’s archival holdings. In addition to working with NYSCA and ETC in The United States, Goldsen began by serving as the archival repository of the prestigious Renew Media/Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships in New Media. This year, Goldsen has been invited to serve as the Western mirror archive of the annual Taishin Arts Award, the most prestigious award in Taiwan. Informal partnerships with media centers and collectives throughout the world have provided Cornell researchers with access to broad collections of media and ephemera representing the extensive efforts of Goldsen and its partners to preserve and celebrate our vast global media heritage. Reflecting the collaborative efforts of the new media arts community to ensure the preservation of its heritage, the vast majority of the Goldsen holdings have been offered to Cornell as donations by participating independent artists, media centers, and cultural institutions. Among notable donations made outside of Asia are those by the international feminist media collective subRosa, the Romanian center Kinema Ikon, Laboratoria Arte Alameda and Center for Digital Culture in Mexico City, and projects by Middle Eastern curator Leeza Ahmady.
Renew Media / Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships in New Media Art
From 2003-2008, the Rockefeller Foundation paired with Renew Media to extend its historically important Media Arts Fellowships in a separate category of New Media Arts. The Goldsen Archive entered into a unique arrangement with this competition in its first year of operation to serve as the official repository of all application materials. Roughly 50 dossiers per year of nationally nominated applicants include the widest range of materials, from artistic CD-ROM and net.art pieces to catalogs, installation photographs, and related ephemera, in addition to the detailed fellowship applications. A Cornell Faculty Grant from the Library and the College of Arts and Sciences to digitize the print materials in this collection resulted in the groundbreaking collaboration with the granting agencies and the participating artists to post the application materials for public access online. Respecting the rights of artists who may have been concerned about posting proposed or ongoing projects online, Goldsen Archive staff penned flexible contracts providing the option either to opt out of the digitization program or to establish time delays for the online release of materials. Especially when paired with the Goldsen’s repository of the Archive of the New York State Council of the Arts Program in Electronic Arts and Film, the Renew Media / Rockefeller Archive constitutes an exceptionally substantial archive of the history of American media and new media art.
Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Arte y nuevas technologías (Buenos Aires, Argentina: Espacio Fundación Telefónica, 2008-2009).
The Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires -- the most creative new media exhibition space in Argentina -- deposited its annual exhibition catalogs in the Goldsen Archive in 2010.
CALIN MAN/ KINEMA IKON: alteridem.exe2, Catalogue of Romanian Pavilion, 50th Venice Biennale (Arad, Romania: Kinema Ikon, 2003) and KINEMA IKON, FILM-EXP (1970-89) DVD-ROM, Romania, 2010. Gift of the artist.
Kinema Ikon is the oldest active experimental art group in Romania. Its principal artist, Calin Man, participated in the Cornell exhibition, Contact Zones: The Art of CD-ROM, and regularly deposits Kinema Ikon materials in the Goldsen Archive.
National Video Resources, Program for Media Artists: Film/Video/Multimedia Update, “Preserving Digital Art: The Goldsen Archives,” 2008.
Public announcement of the agreement for Goldsen to become the repository of the Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships in New Media.
College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Parable of the Garden: New Media Art from Iran and Central Asia, curators Leeza Ahmady, Sarah Cunningham, Deborah Hutton (Ewing, NJ: College of New Jersey Art Gallery, 2008). Gift of the curators.
subRosa, Biotech Sex & Gender Ed Workbook (2002) & SELECTED PROJECTS, 2000-2005, DVD (2005).
On behalf of subRosa, Cornell cyberfeminist scholar and Cornell Professor Maria Fernandez donated to Goldsen a significant archival repository of the feminist collective’s interdisciplinary projects. Emphasizing the impact of new technologies on women’s sexuality, reproductive choices, and subjectivities, the collective stages performative interventions that question practices of surveillance, medical intervention, and the conditions of the surveilled female subject.
Laboratorio Arte Alameda, (Ready) Media: Hacia una Arqueología de los Medios y la Invencíon en México, set of 6 DVDs (Mexico City: Laboratoria Arte Alameda, 2010).
A unique collection documenting public new media programming with adolescents and adults at Mexico City’s premier art center for new media. The Goldsen Archive has maintained an active dialogue with the new media arts in Mexico, initially in collaboration with Príamo Lozada of the Laboratorio Arte Alameda, who lost his life in a tragic accident while curating the Venice Biennale in 2007, and now with Grace Quintanilla of Mexico City’s Center for Digital Culture.
Israeli Center for Digital Art, Deviants exhibition catalog. Israel, 2012.
Transmediale.06, Smile Machines: Humor, Art, Technology, curator: Anne-Marie Duguet. Berlin, 2006.
Transmediale is an annual festival for media art and digital culture in Berlin, Germany. The festival engages in reflective, aesthetic and speculative positions in between art, technology and culture.
11th Taishin Arts Award, Annual Report. Taiwan, 2013. Taishin Arts Collection.
In addition to housing the annual competition catalogs in the Goldsen Archive, Taiwan’s most prestigious arts award has entered into a new agreement with Goldsen to mirror its comprehensive online archive: http://artsawardarchive.taishinart.org.tw/review. The Taishin Arts Award was founded in 2002 by the Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture. This collection consists of works by the most active and talented contemporary artists in Taiwan, whose works had been nominated by the Taishin Arts Award in the past 14 years. The Taishin Archive has collected works by over 154 finalists, including 38 award winners. For the 10th anniversary of the Taishin Award, a new online database, Taishin Arts Award Archive (a.k.a. AAA), was launched in 2011, which emphasizes active cross networks, free coupling and open searches.
Rudolph Freiling and Wulf Herzogenrath, eds. 40YearsofVideoArt.De: Digital Heritage: Video Art in Germany From 1963 to the Present, book and DVD (Bremen: Kunsthalle Bremen, 2006).
Published with Europe’s leading media arts center, ZKM (The Center for Art and Media Technology -- Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie) in Karlsruhe, Germany. Includes a 15 DVD set of the history of German video art, presenting the work of over 59 artists.