The Digitization-Project and Online-Portal of the Art Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna | René Schober

The presentation will include an overview of our project, its main content and steps, and a live-presentation of the Online-Portal.

about the project
Online-Portal of the Art Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Art Collections | BMKÖS (Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport) Kulturerbe digital, 04/2023 – 08/2024

René Schober
Claudia Bauer, Viktoria Cordts, Andrea Domanig, Sabine Folie, Clara Hlavka, Claudia Koch, Norbert Nabernik, Alexander Steinbichler-Holzer, Luitgard Voller, Christina Zeßner-Spitzenberg

From April 2023 to the end of August 2024, the Art Collections of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna carried out a digitization project financed by the ›Kulturerbe digital‹ funding program of the BMKÖS. The aim of this project was to publish selected holdings in an online portal. The premise for such a publication was the acquisition and implementation of the MuseumPlus database system in the Art Collections.

Once this new database was implemented and running, a uniform and adequate standard had to be established for the digital images and the associated metadata. This meant that new scans and photographs of the artworks were made and the data of the individual works was checked, edited and corrected. Finally, the digital images and associated data of 8891 artworks were published via Online Collections by 30 August 2024.

Weblink

https://collection.kunstsammlungenakademie.at/en

Project partners
ZID, zetcom

Personal Archives as Sites of Relationality: A Reflection on the Process* | Rafał Morusiewicz, Guilherme Maggessi

In this presentation, we reflect on our project’s Co_Lab #1, the first-year run of collaborative sessions focusing on the key term of ›personal archives‹. Broadly defined as spaces, objects, memories, and ephemera that are, at the moment of being discussed, ›archives-in-becoming‹, personal archives imply relational intensity, affective attachment, and a sense of responsibility or ownership, which present an interesting challenge in terms of translating them into an artistic-research expression.

For this purpose, throughout the sessions, we applied the format of artistic assignments, inspired by Emiel Heijnen and Melissa Bremmer’s book ›Wicked Arts Assignments‹ (2021), which present activities drawing from conceptual art practices that, at the same time, exemplify an inextricable bind between theory and practice, which is the core aim of artistic research. A collaborative process and a crossover of workshop and exhibition formats, Co_Lab #1 relied on a several-month-long collaboration with several artists and researchers, including Selina Shirin Stritzel, Mika Maruyama, and Tonči Kranjčević Batalić.

about the project
W/ri/gh/ting Archives through Artistic Research

Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies | FWF PEEK (10.55776/AR716), 10/2022 – 01/2026

Rafał Morusiewicz
Guilherme Maggessi

›W/ri/gh/ting Archives through Artistic Research‹ is a process-based artistic-research project dedicated to working in and with archives. Its core operational strategy converges two motivations: (1) to conceptualize archives as relational entities, and (2) to recognize the epistemological shift towards practicing research as art.

These motivations are framed on the basis of two intersecting agendas, informed by Eve Tuck and C. Ree’s ›A Glossary of Haunting‹, where the intention of ›righting the wrongs‹, i.e. a call for ethics and justice in archive-based research, is accompanied by ›writing the wrongs‹, which investigates possible modes of representation and narration for archival research.

The project extends its critical attention towards the relationship between conducting artistic research around archives and performing the work of archiving in artistic ways, informed by theoretical reflection from queer studies, decolonial studies, applied human rights, and critical archival studies.

Weblink
https://wrighting-archives.com