Encounters with contemporary visual arts

DIVA Station
Overview of physical and web archive of video art in Slovenia
(upgrading of Videodokument)

Tuesday, January 19, 2010 at 7 pm
City Gallery Nova Gorica, Trg Edvarda Kardelja 5, Nova Gorica

You are cordially invited to City Gallery Nova Gorica on a lecture, presentation, projection, discussion about DIVA Station, a physical and web archive of video art which has been developing since 2005 by SCCA-Ljubljana.

Ida Hiršenfelder, head of DIVA Station archive, will present the context and purpose of archives, academic exhibition in the Škuc Gallery (June 2009) and DIVA archive.

Presentation will be followed by the projection of a selection of video works entitled DIVA Station_Presents. The selection has been prepared by Barbara Borčić, Miha Colner and Ida Hiršenfelder. Fifteen selected video works show specific artistic approaches to technological, medial and content usage of video as an expressive tool and present important shifts in the understanding of video art in a chronological manner between 1983 and 2007.

The event is part of the program Encounters with contemporary visual arts of Mestna Gallery of Nova Gorica.

DIVA Station is a continuation of a number of research, documentation and archive projects in the field of video / media art (Videodokument, curatorial selections of video works Videospotting, artists' Internet Portfolio, Artservis' Collection and e-archive). After a successful presentation of DIVA Station at Škuc Gallery in June 2009, we are also presenting DIVA Station on different festivals (Ars Electronica in Linz, Media Scape in Novigrad) and on other occasions in order to inform the wider public about the theoretical, practical and artistic aspects of audiovisual archives of contemporary art.

DIVAStation is also a partner archive of GAMA (Gateway to Archives of Media Art), an international internet platform, which brings together European video and media archives to make them more visible and easily accessible.

More information:

• DIVA at Škuc Gallery
• GAMA (Gateway to Archives of Media Art)

For an invitation and collaboration we would like to thank the City Gallery Nova Gorica, especially to Pavla Jarc and Mateja Poljšak Furlan.