The Experimenta Archive Panel: Post-Medium Artists’ Moving Image

How has artists’ moving image responded to the questions and challenges of art’s transformations in a Post-Medium age? As distinctions between film and video become ever more conflated, in what way have artists working with Moving Image taken it beyond the definitions of medium specificity and the practices associated with it, and to what extent is this impacting on, and effected by, contemporary archival practice, preservation, distribution and programming? This afternoon panel explores the conceptual implications and practical challenges of making, exhibiting and preserving moving image work in the fast moving environment of technological change and redundancy. The event will focus on issues of provenance, value and fidelity for artists working with the moving image both in new and future technologies, and historical mediums such as celluloid film and analogue video as well as on questions of medium definition in a new age.
Panelists will include Mark Toscano, Preservationist at the Academy Film Archives, Los Angeles, artist Gail Pickering, writer Melissa Gronlund, William Fowler, Curator of Artists Moving Image at the BFI National Archive and chaired by Lucy Reynolds, Course Leader, CSM/LUX Mres Art: Moving Image
Organised by LUX for the BFI London Film Festival Experimenta programme Presented in Collaboration with CSM/LUX Mres Art: Moving Image
Supported by Arts Council England