Memoduct
Dissemination

• Panel

May

• 2025

Panel “GLOBALLY CONNECTING NEW MEDIA ART ARCHIVES: Developing new tools for research and creative inspiration,” XXI International Academic Forum on Design and Creation - Media Art History RE:GENERATIVE held within the framework of the XXIV International Image Festival, 2nd-9th May, 2025. Panelists: Bonnie Mitchell (ACM SIGGRAPH History Archive), Paula Perissinotto (FILE Archive) and Violeta Vojvodic Balaz (MEMODUCT posthuman.archive). They presented results of the 1st Workshop on New Media Art Archiving (WNMAA), held at ZKM (2025, February) which gathered experts, practitioners, and stakeholders enabling them to acquire knowledge through hands-on approach.

→  MAH 2025 Presentation | PDF

• Workshop

February

• 2025

The workshop on New Media Art Archiving was held at ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, 5th-8th February, 2025. Co-organised by MEMODUCT posthuman.archive. The CC4WBs Small Grant made possible the participation of Violeta Vojvodic Balaz (Memoduct) in the NMAA Hybrid Residency programme at ZKM—her onsite involvement in the organisation of the workshop, best practices transfer and strategy building. Her project “1st Workshop on New Media Art Archiving: MEMODUCT posthuman.archive” is supported by UNESCO, through the “Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans” (CC4WBs), a project funded by the European Union that aims to foster dialogue in the Western Balkans by enhancing the cultural and creative sectors for increased socio-economic impact.

→  View WNMAA Screens | PDF

• Presentation

September

• 2023

The presentation “Bogdanka Poznanović: The Art of Communication and The Emergence of ‘Mainframe Arte Povera’” by Violeta Vojvodic Balaz, was held on 16th September within the framework of Re:source 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology which took place in Venice (13-16 September). The presentation was part of the panel: Media Art Histories of Eastern Europe.

→  MAH 2023 | View Paper | Library

Media Art Histories of Eastern Europe (Moderator: Violeta Vojvodic Balaz)

• Summit

May

• 2023

The Third Summit on New Media Art Archiving at ISEA2023 Paris, France – May 16-21, 2023. Co-organised by MEMODUCT posthuman.archive. The Summit had three themes: Symbiosis, Sustainability & Progress. Participation of Juergen Hagler (Uni. of Applied Sciences Upper Austria) and Violeta Vojvodic Balaz (Memoduct) at the 3rd SNMAA in Paris was supported by the Culture Moves Europe, EU mobility scheme. Juergen Hagler had chaired the session “XR & Metaverse” and presented the paper “Looking Back on 10 Years of Expanded Animation Symposium: Organizing, Documenting and Archiving Together With Students”. Violeta Vojvodic Balaz (Memoduct) chaired a session “Artists & Archives 1” and was the lead researcher and presenter for the SNMAA Panel “Summit on New Media Art Archiving: Strategic Planning for the Future” (Sustainability Workshop framework). The panelists were Violeta Vojvodic Balaz, Wim van der Plas, Terry Wong, Bonnie Mitchell, Janice Searleman, Byeongwon Ha and Oliver Grau (moderator).

→  SNMAA 2023 | View Paper | Library

• Festival

October

• 2022

Art Science Festival 2022 - SPLINTERED REALITIES, RIXC Center for New Media Culture  → https://rixc.org. The 3-day Conference, held on 6th-8th October, consisted of Session 01- Deep Europe Symposium, Session 02 - Naturecultures, and Session 03 - Living Technologies. Within the Deep Europe Symposium (6.10.2022), Violeta Vojvodic Balaz gave a presentation “Seminar: Moral and Mythology in Contemporary Art” (Novi Sad, 1995) in the conjuncture of New Europe (1989-2022).” Session 01, curated by Andreas Broeckmann and Rasa Smite, featured the topics: Deep Europe, Entangled Histories, Cultivated Futures, New Ecosophies, and Extended Realities.

• Lightning Talk

June 10-11

• 2022

On Saturday, 11 June 10:00-11:40, within the SNMAA – Archive Presentation segment, Violeta Vojvodic Balaz gave a lightning talk “MEMODUCT posthuman.archive: The Site-specific Media Art History.”

→  SNMAA 2022 | View Paper | Library