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===Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art===
[[File:Kroch Library sign, Cornell University.jpg|thumb|The Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in Carl A. Kroch Library; access to it is through [[Olin Library at Cornell University|Olin Library]].]]
'''Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art''' is a research repository for [[new media art]]. It was founded in 2002 by Timothy Murray, Professor of [[Comparative Literature|Comparative Literature and English]] and Director of the Society for the [[Humanities]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Murray|first1=Tim|title=Bio of Tim Murray|url=http://www.arts.cornell.edu/sochum/timmurray.html|website=Society for the Humanities|publisher=Cornell University|access-date= June 16, 2015}}</ref> It is located in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University Library and it is named in honor of the late [[Rose Goldsen|Prof. Rose Goldsen]], a [[Sociology]] Professor at [[Cornell University]] and an avant-garde critic of [[popular culture|pop culture]], [[mass media]] and [[communication]].
The Rose Goldsen Archive [[New media art preservation|provides access]] to detailed [[Archives|archival material]] that mirrors the historical changes which have happened in [[new media art]] in terms of its technological development and experimentation, throughout the years.<ref name="NEH">{{cite web|title=Narrative Section of a Successful Application|url=http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/cornell_universitypreservation_and_access_framework_for_digital_art_objects.pdf|website=National endowment for the humanities, Division of Reservation and Access|publisher=National endowment for the humanities|access-date=June 16, 2015|archive-date=June 28, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150628131656/http://www.neh.gov/files/grants/cornell_universitypreservation_and_access_framework_for_digital_art_objects.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>

====General Collection====
The archive's collections include [[Multimedia Arts|multimedia artworks]] that reflect the transformation of [[New media art|new media art practices]] from analog to disc-based and from there to networked and [[web-based application]] during the past decades.<ref name="NEH"/> The collections combine artworks produced on CD/ DVD-Rom, [[VHS]]/[[digital video]] and internet (online and offline holdings) as well as supporting materials, such as unpublished manuscripts and designs, digital and photographic documentation of installations and performances, digital ephemera, interviews, photographs, catalogs, monographs, and resource guides to [[new media art]].<ref>{{cite web|last1=Murray|first1=Timothy|title=About the project|url=http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu/about/index.php|website=Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art|publisher=Cornell University Library|access-date= June 18, 2015}}</ref>

The general collection consists of various material about audio, sound art, eco and bio art, exhibitions, artist compilations, installations, interactive narrative, poetry, online listserv, internet art journals, performance, theory, video art, and cinema. Among the artists whose work can be found in the general collection are  [[Gary Hill]], [[Iimura Takahiko]], [[Ardele Lister]], [[Michael Snow]], [[Janet Cardiff]], [[Chantal Akerman]], [[Kevin McCoy (artist)|Jennifer and Kevin McCoy]], [[Shu Lea Cheang]], and others. The collection contains work ranging from the 1960s up to the present day.

====Special Collections====
Apart from the general collection, the Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art houses many special collections and fellowship competitions. Some of them are the following: <br />
'''The Renew Media Fellowships in New Media''', an annual competition for interactive dynamic media, was funded by the [[Rockefeller Foundation]] in New Media Art from 2002. The Goldsen Archive serves as the repository for the digitized copies of this competition material, such as the proposals, slides, artists' portfolios, other supportive material, etc. from 2003 to 2008.<ref name="auto">{{cite archive |first= |last= |item= |type= |date= |series= |file= |box= |collection=Renew Media: Rockefeller Foundation Fellowships in New Media Art, 2003-2008 |repository=Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections |institution=Cornell University Library |location= |collection-url=https://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM06673.html}}</ref><br />
'''The Wen Pulin Archive of Chinese Avant-Garde Art''', a collaboration among the Goldsen Archive, the [[Charles W. Wason]] Collection on East Asia at Cornell University Library and the Dongtai Academy of Art in [[Beijing, China]] consists of 360 hours of videotape that documents [[Chinese contemporary art]], installation, performance, video, and [[rock n' roll]] from 1985 to 2002.<ref>{{cite web|title=Chinese Avant Garde Art Archive|url=http://asia.library.cornell.edu/Wen/index.php|website=Chinese Avant Garde Art Archive|publisher=Cornell University|access-date= June 18, 2015}}</ref> Some of the artists that are showcased in the collection are Cui Jian, Du Zhenjun, [[Feng Mengbo]], [[Li Xianting]], Lin Yilin, [[Lu Shengzhong]], Mou Sen, [[Song Dong]], Song Yongping, [[Xu Bing]], Yu Xiaofu, Zhang Dali, Zhou Shaobo, Chen Lingyang.<ref>{{cite web |title=Biographies|website=Cornell University|hdl=1813.001/5790901 |url=https://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/5790901}}{{dead link|date=July 2023}}</ref><br />
'''The Yao Jui-Chung Archive of Contemporary Taiwanese Art''' contains the Taiwanese artist [[Yao Jui-Chung]]'s portfolio, 8,000 images of Contemporary Art Exhibition Postcards and Taiwan performance art.<ref>{{cite web |title=Yao Jui-Chung Archive of Contemporary Taiwanese Art|website=Cornell University Library|hdl=1813.001/7761936d |url=https://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/7761936d}}{{dead link|date=July 2023}}</ref><br />
'''The "ETC: Experimental Television Center Archives"'''<ref name="ETC1">{{cite web|title=Video library and archives of the Experimental Television Center (ETC)|url=http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu/etc/|website=ETC, Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art|publisher=Cornell University Library|access-date= June 18, 2015}}</ref> is a collection with more than 3,000 artistic [[video tapes]] and [[DVDs]]. It contains works by artists from both the contemporary and first generation of [[video art]]. The Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art has served as a repository for the [[Experimental Television Center]]'s collection (1969-2011), since 2011. Some of the artists that are showcased in the collection are [[Barbara Hammer]], [[Gary Hill]], Jud Yalkut, [[Aldo Tambellini]], [[Benton C Bainbridge]], [[Irit Batsry]], [[Alan Berliner]], [[Kristin Lucas]], [[Lynne Sachs]], [[Michael Betancourt]], [[Abigail Child]], [[Laurence Gartel]] and Barbara Lattanzi, [[Emergency Broadcast Network]], [[Nam June Paik]], [[Kathy High]], etc.<ref name="ETC1" /><br />
'''Net Art''': The Goldsen Archive provides access to a number of [[internet art]] collections. It is the off-line repository for the [[Turbulence.org]] archive,<ref>{{cite web|last1=Murray|first1=Timothy|title=NEA Collaboration Grant: Turbulence + Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art|url=http://www.hastac.org/blogs/timothy-murray/nea-collaboration-grant-turbulence-rose-goldsen-archive-new-media-art|website=HASTAC:Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory|publisher=HASTAC|access-date= June 18, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227155126/http://www.hastac.org/blogs/timothy-murray/nea-collaboration-grant-turbulence-rose-goldsen-archive-new-media-art|archive-date= February 27, 2015}}</ref> a project of [[New Radio and Performing Arts|New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (NRPA)]], the Computerfinearts.com and the Infos 2000. In addition, the Archive serves as an on-line repository for the online journal of [[net.art]], [[CTHEORY Multimedia]]<ref>{{cite web|last1=Kroker|first1=Arthur|last2=Kroker|first2=Marilouise|last3=Murray|first3=Timothy|title=About the journal|url=http://ctheorymultimedia.cornell.edu/|website=CTHEORY MULTIMEDIA|publisher=Cornell University Library|access-date= June 24, 2015}}</ref> and the [[Ecopoetics]] online exhibition.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Murray|first1=Timothy|last2=Shevory|first2=Tom|last3=Zimmermann|first3=Patricia|title=Ecopoetics Online Exhibition|website=Cornell University Library|hdl=1813.001/7761936j |hdl-access=free |url=http://goldsen.library.cornell.edu/internet/ecopoetics.php}}</ref>

====Preservation====
[[File:Cornell University Library, Ithaca, New York- Comstock Memorial Library, Entomology, bought with the income of a fund given by the students of John Henry Comstock, Professor of Entomology, 1915, book plate, Ex Libris (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Book plate, Comstock Memorial Library, 1915]]
Because of the fragility and the complexity of the artworks,<ref>About the fragility of digital media see:{{cite web|title=Preservation 101: Media Preservation|url=http://www.imappreserve.org/pres_101/index.html#priorities|website=Independent Media Art Preservation (IMAP)|publisher=IMAP c/o Lehman College|access-date= June 18, 2015}} and {{cite web|title=EAI Online Resource Guide for Exhibiting, Collecting & Preserving Media Art:Preservation|url=http://www.eai.org/resourceguide/preservation.html|website=Electronic Art Intermix|publisher=Electronic Arts Intermix|access-date= June 18, 2015}}</ref> most of which are [[born-digital]] and many of which are [[interactive]], the Archive focuses on building archival strategies that [[New media art preservation|endure the continuous access]] to all this fragile material. The Goldsen Archive is one of the six international digital art archives dedicated to Preservation and Documentation Strategies; other similar archives are [[Ars Electronica]], Tate Intermedia, FACT, computerfinearts.com (which has its repository in Goldsen Archive) and Rhizome Artbase.<ref>{{cite web|title=Digital Art History Databases: Preservation and Documentation Strategies- Archives.|url=http://paulhertz.net/research/digarthistdb.html|website=Ingo Studio: Paul Hertz|access-date=June 18, 2015|archive-date=June 16, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210616064458/https://paulhertz.net/research/digarthistdb.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> In addition, the Archive has signed the International Declaration "Media Art Needs Global Networked Organization and Support", sponsored by Media Art History. Org.<ref>{{cite web|title=Media art needs global networked Organisation & support – International Declaration|url=http://www.mediaarthistory.org/declaration|website=Media Art History|access-date=June 18, 2015|archive-date=June 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620051737/http://www.mediaarthistory.org/declaration|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Goldsen Archive has completed a [[National Endowment for the Humanities]]- funded preservation initiative that aims to make access to complex interactive and digital-born media artworks simple and more reliable, which will allow these artworks to be used and viewed on modern computers.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march14/03inbrief.html |last1=Casad |first1=Madeleine Imogene |title=Preservation and Access Framework for Digital Art Objects |magazine=D-Lib Magazine |date=March–April 2014 |volume=20 |issue=4 |doi=10.1045/march2014-contents |access-date=April 24, 2022 |doi-access=free}}</ref>