Be thou still there with me
Experts' conference on archiving digital and multimedia productions in the Performing Arts
17 December 2026 - 12:00 - 17:15
Location: Media Library for Dance and Theatre of the ITI
Language: English
Registration: Please send an Email by 1 December (including a short description of interest and background) to: mediathek@iti-germany.de
How can productions that use innovative technologies be preserved in the long term in collections, archives, and museums while remaining accessible to future audiences? Due to their high technical complexity and uncertainties regarding preservation practices, materials used in these productions are often not stored or secured correctly. Furthermore, legal uncertainties frequently complicate matters. And yet, there are an increasing number of artists in the performing arts who use digital media technologies in their work.
This experts' conference identifies challenges in the preservation, cataloging, digitization, and long-term archiving of artistic works that employ digital and multimedia technologies, using hands on the example of choreographer Yui Kawaguchi’s work.
The event primarily targets archivists, developers and conservators working with digital and multimedia artistic works, but is also open to artists interested in the preservation of these technologies.
Programme (preliminary)
With Junji Watanabe (NTT), Yui Kawaguchi (Choreografin), Matthieu Vlaminck-Maurer (Zentrum für Kunst und Medien/Medienrestaurierung), N.N., Team of the Media Library for Dance and Theatre
12:00-12:15 Intro
12:15-13:15 Opening Dialogue: Junji Watanabe + Yui Kawaguchi
13:15-13:25: Break
13:25-14:25 Experience and Testing: part 1
14:25-14:35: Break
14:35-15:35 Panel: Archiving digital productions (Yui Kawaguchi, MTT, Matthieu Vlaminck-Maurer)
15:35-15:45: Break
15:45-16:45 Experience and Testing: part 2
16:45-17:15 Closing Session
The experts conference takes place in the frame of the digitisation project „AARDVARK/ Be thou still there with me“ funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion in accordance with its funding guidelines for the digitization of cultural heritage objects in the state of Berlin 2026.
