AusEaaSI and Archiving Australian Media Art

AusEaaSI is an Australian consortium of research institutions and organisations in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM)sector to build a network using Emulation-as-a-Service infrastructure (EaaSI) in order to stabilise and provide access to culturally significant born-digital artefacts. In tandem with this, the Archiving Australian Media Arts project is developing a good practice method for preserving and emulating historic digital media artworks with special regard to artworks that are nteractive, complex digital artefacts, which react and respond to the clicks and mouse movements of the user.The collaborative approach and buy-in from stakeholders has built a nascent community with the confidence to tackle the particular challenges that are entailed in collecting, stabilising and emulating complex digital artefacts. No one institution is undertaking this work in isolation; rather, they are part of a national digital preservation ecosystem, supported by a core research team with high level specialist skills. A diverse range of case studies drawn from exhibitions and the media art collections that have been developing across t he Australian cultural institutions partnering this project. These include: dLux MediaArts, Experimenta Media Art, ANAT, ACMI, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the State Library of South Australia, and Griffith University ArtMuseum. This poster outlines the work that has been achieved creating images from a range of media, configuring emulated environments and providing access for archival appraisal and public exhibition.