The discussion will concern the development of cooperation across online archives of media art.
How to present archival works to the public? How to work with curatorial selections, how individual items in the archive can be connected, how to encourage finding new relationships between artifacts. The archive as a place for initiating new research projects. Exploring the possibilities of exchanges and loans of material and linking the metadata of works from different archives in a common "digital catalog".
The goal is to build on the idea of an open archive as a place of collaboration, with a reference to the practice and poetics of Steina and Woody Vašulk. Members of Vašulka Kitchen Brno, representatives from the National Film Archive in Prague, the Olomouc Art Museum and the Monoskop initiative are taking part in the discussion.