The ARCHAIVE project is implemented by a consortium of European organisations working across media art, digital culture, archives, artistic research, and technological innovation, led by MEET Digital Culture Center (Milan, Italy).
Italy
MEET is the Italian organization that supports digital culture and creative technology. Based in Milan, MEET was created as an evolution of the Meet the Media Guru programme with the fundamental support of Fondazione Cariplo. MEET delivers a massive plan of on life – online and onsite – activities that bring people to experience and embrace digital technologies as a part of their daily life and a resource for their creativity. MEET aims to reduce Italian digital cultural divide. Other key factors are exchange, discussion and building of new projects together with several international partners. Designed as a social-oriented institution, MEET collects, promotes and shares creative ideas and innovative projects to reduce the digital cultural divide and guarantee an increasingly more active participation with an approach centred on meeting and inclusion.
Within ARCHAIVE, MEET it’s the coordinator of the project and oversee all the activities of the consortium.
spaın
NEWART foundation is dedicated to digital, technological and new media art, addressing the structural needs that arise from the incorporation of new technologies into artistic practice. Based in Reus, Spain, it operates through NEWART centre, a space conceived to work with complex media artworks across their full life cycle, from creation and presentation to preservation, study and activation. Its expertise lies in developing active infrastructures where artworks are not only displayed or preserved, but also produced, understood, maintained and reactivated over time.
Within ARCHAIVE, NEWART foundation will contribute its experience in working with digital, technological and new media artworks through an integrated model combining exhibition, production, conservation, documentation, research and public engagement. Its role will focus on mapping and analysing European media art archives, helping to define the creative, technical, ethical and institutional challenges related to AI-driven, immersive, interactive and hybrid media artworks.
PORTUGAL
Located in the former agricultural silos of Santa Catarina da Fonte do Bispo, Museu Zer0 has transformed a rural heritage site into a centre for the production of digital art. The project combines historical memory and technological innovation, using digital languages to explore local identity, territory and community engagement.
Its mission is to drive digital art production through artistic residencies and to foster digital literacy in schools by offering specialised workshops in sound and image, as well as facilitating direct dialogue with artists. Museu Zer0 aims to transform regional identity into a collaborative learning space, making contemporary new media processes accessible and engaging for local students and communities.
Within ARCHAIVE, Museu Zer0 will contribute by hosting artistic residencies, co-producing digital content and facilitating connections between artists, the local area and the community.
netherlands
The Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision is the Dutch institute for media culture: an inspiring, creative and accessible meeting place for private individuals and professionals. It manages one of the largest digitised media archives in the world, including radio, television, YouTube videos, objects, written press, podcasts and video games, and preserves this daily growing media collection as cultural heritage for the future.
At the heart of its work is the belief that a free and transparent media culture is the foundation of a strong and open democracy. Through its Research & Heritage department, Sound & Vision keeps its collections accessible to heritage professionals, researchers and investigative journalists, while developing and sharing knowledge, tools and methods to better understand media heritage and the changing media landscape.
Within ARCHAIVE, the Netherlands Institute for Sound & Vision will help establish a learning community through workshops, public dialogues, and resource creation focused on critical AI literacy.
germany
Public Art Lab is a Berlin-based action research lab and platform for urban media art that investigates, curates and produces artistic projects in the public sphere at the intersection of media art, urban planning and creative technologies. Through open co-design processes, translocal networks and public interventions, PAL creates spaces for artistic experimentation, civic engagement, knowledge exchange and community placemaking.
Building on long-term initiatives such as Connecting Cities, PAL has developed extensive expertise in activating digital infrastructures as cultural and social spaces, transforming urban screens, media facades and public programmes into platforms for dialogue, shared experience and translocal exchange.
Within ARCHAIVE, Public Art Lab will contribute its experience in curating, communicating and activating digital art projects in public space, with a focus on public engagement, accessibility, dissemination and the presentation of ARCHAIVE’s artistic and critical questions across urban spaces, partner venues and hybrid infrastructures.
