PACKED – Platform for the Archiving and Preservation of Audiovisual Arts (Brussels) and the Netherlands Institute for Media Art (Amsterdam) currently execute a research project into the preservation of display and playback equipment for video-based and computer-based art. As part of this research project PACKED and NIMk ask the cooperation from organizations, archives and individuals.

Questionnaire on Storage and Maintenance Specifications for Video and Computer Equipment for Media Art.

Since the emergence of the medium video, different recording, playback and display systems have been developed that got obsolete afterwards due to the technological evolution. This equipment (video recorders, monitors, projectors, …) has often become rare. But at the same time access to it is crucial to exhibit old video works and safeguard them for the future. A similar problem exists for computer-based works.

PACKED and NIMk kindly ask organizations, archives and individuals that own this kind of equipment and/or maintain it to fill the questionnaire that you can find here. Answers from both the field of art as others fields are welcome.

For additional information on the questionnaire or the research project, please contact Rony Vissers ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) or Gaby Wijers ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

Please send your answers to the questionnaire to Gaby Wijers.( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).

More information on the project can also be found at http://www.packed.be/en//projects/readmore/obsolete_apparatuur/

More information on PACKED and NIMk can be found at
http://www.packed.be/en/
http://www.nimk.nl/en/index.html