The Vasulka Kitchen Brno Archive is dedicated to preserving a unique video library and digital archive of Woody and Steina Vasulka's work. The issues addressed by this archive, as well as archives of electronic art in general, concern the preservation, cataloging, documentation, and access to physical and digital artworks, digital and analog data such as software, websites, installation material, scholarly studies, and also, media, analog technical devices and players, and personal collections. The contribution will introduce the concept of the approach to processing this archive. We will also focus on the role of software in Vasulkas' oeuvre and how it can be mediated in the archival setting.
https://vkba.vasulkakitchen.org/vkb-archive
Dušan Barok's (Oslo/Bratislava) work is concerned with digital culture, memory and activism. He is founding editor of Monoskop, a wiki for arts and studies. His practice involves networked media, participatory events, experimental publishing and art preservation and has been involved in collectives such as 3/4, Burundi, Multiplace, La Société Anonyme and Society of Algorithm. Recently, he was part of the curatorial team and contributed an essay to the catalog for the traveling exhibition Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s-1980s, organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Barbora Šedivá is a curator and an art manager, the deputy of 4AM/Forum for Architecture and Media and the director of the platform Multiplace. At the Department of Theory of Interactive Media at MUNI she led a seminar focused on active examination of archives and actual tendencies in new media art. Barbora also co-curated Remake / REthinking Media Art in K(C)ollaborative Environments, an international art project aimed at creation and presentation of new works inspired by the history of media arts. In Vasulka Kitchen Brno, she coordinates the research concerned with the Vasulkas' Archive processing. She currently works at the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Brno University of Technology.