Video Active nominated for the FIAT/IFTA ARCHIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

Video Active has been nominated for the first FIAT/IFTA ARCHIVE ACHIEVEMENT AWARD. This award celebrates the  “most productive iniative that promotes the value and use of audio-visual archives”  The winner of the award will be anounced during the FIAT/IFTA World Conference in Beijing on October 23.

 

Video Active presentation on the EBU Production Technology Seminar now online

Johan Oomen and Siem Vaessen presented their paper about Video Active during the EBU seminar on January 28 in Geneva. The presentation can be viewed here.

 

Video Active Research Nominee for Best of the Web Award

Video Active has been nominated for the Best of the Web Award in the category Research. This award is part of Museum and the Web 2009, the international conference for culture and heritage on-line in April in Indianapolis. Two judges will review the nominated sites in February and March and select the finalists. Registered users can vote in April for the People’s Choice Award. Nominations can be checked here.

 

Conference Report: Television Without Borders: Transfers, translations and transnational exchange

A large number of the Video Active consortium attended the Television Without Borders international conference held at the University of Reading in the UK (27-29 June 2008) to present papers on television history, archival practices and on the Video Active project itself. 

The conference focused on the way in which television crosses borders, in the past, present and future, and examined the role of the medium in promoting or challenging forms of national and cultural identity. The three-day event was attended by over 100 international delegates from Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and China, and discussion explored the way that television  programmes, genres, personnel, technologies, policies and economics  have all been implicated at an international level in forms cultural exchange, appropriation and resistance.