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Il museo laboratorio d'arte contemporanea              italiano

MEDIA ARCHIVE

The main purpose of the Museum Laboratory of Contemporary Art's audiovisual archive, founded in 1993 by Bruno Di Marino, is to collect in a magnetic holder everything that makes part of the audiovisual experimentation: a) electronics and computer arts, b) experimental and artistic cinema, c) experimental and cartoons by famous artists, d) musical clips. There is moreover a section dedicated to the documentation of the audiovisual art. Particularly the archive contains the most complete collection of italian cinema of art on magnetic tape, and even a large section dedicated to the historical avantgard and to the videoart historical authors . The titles available in Vhs, Bvu-Umatic, Betacam, Laser Disc and DVD format, are actually 2000, they are all visibles on two video emplacements that can contain contemporaneously ten people at the most. It is necessary to reserve the watching of the videos.( The available days are: Tuesday and Thursday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m.; and on Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.) The loan is not allowed, but for didactics project, and even the duplication of the materials is not permitted. The collected materials is the result of about twenty events and exhibitions organized during seven years. The idea of an archive has to be free from a conservative function, and has to be a real and an alive place of cultural diffusion and promotion. In these years more than fifty artists, international filmmakers and videomakers have been the hosts of the archive: we remember: Doug Aitken, julian Alvarez, Massimo Bacigalupo, Gianfranco Barruchello, Bériou, Franco Brocani, Paolo Brunatto, Robert Cahen, Leonardo Carrano, Larry Cuba, Nato Frascà, Michael Gaumnitz, Giulio Gianini & Lele Luzzati, Shalom Gorewitz, Sigrid Hackenberg, Takaiko Limura, Raimund Krumme, Guido Manuli, Lejf Marcussen, Michael Mazière, Milla Moilalen, Matthias Muller, Phil Mulloy, Vera Neubauer, Hieronim Neumann, Orlan, Luca Patella, Joanna Quinn, Heinrich Sabl, Georges Schwizgebel, Gianluigi Toccafondo, Roberta Torre.