January 7th: The Victoria Art Gallery |
Journal Entry:
The Australian Center for Moving Image
Our first stop of the day was to ACMI, the Australian Center for Moving Image. Here they had set up a walkthrough of media for Australia’s history. The exhibit was far too large and I only got to see half of it but it was brilliantly set up. It included TV, film, and games, and Pirating in Australia. Pete led us to the second floor were a government-private company co-op archive allowed public access to a ton of video material retained through the decades. The Archivists provided a lecture on what they retain and allowed us to view some of the material also available on YouTube (right). |
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What i Learned from ACMI
What I learned from ACMI:
- On video archiving rights:
- There is contention over how these files are contained and delivered to the public.
- ACMI chooses what content to retain and what to throw out via their content partners.
Contracts determine and provide guidance on what to keep and what not to keep. - Often times rights holders are not contactable and as a result much of the archive cannot be shown.
- Up until now the government has been conservative in how they handle this.
The Victoria Art Gallery
After finishing at ACMI we jumped over to the national Gallery of Victoria which holds an impressive collection. It would prove to take two trips to the gallery due to the sheer amount of stuff there but This trip I went to the contemporary wing where I witnessed several great video pieces and a full room installation of these bowls randomly floating around in a space creating the most beautiful sounds. I saw tons of great pieces from Albrecht Durer, Paul Cezanne, Edvard Kimpt, Money, and Picaso’s Weeping Woman. I rushed through the Asian exhibits where I saw indian bodisatvas, Tokugawa period Japanese art work, and so, so much more.
After finishing at ACMI we jumped over to the national Gallery of Victoria which holds an impressive collection. It would prove to take two trips to the gallery due to the sheer amount of stuff there but This trip I went to the contemporary wing where I witnessed several great video pieces and a full room installation of these bowls randomly floating around in a space creating the most beautiful sounds. I saw tons of great pieces from Albrecht Durer, Paul Cezanne, Edvard Kimpt, Money, and Picaso’s Weeping Woman. I rushed through the Asian exhibits where I saw indian bodisatvas, Tokugawa period Japanese art work, and so, so much more.
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