img: Referencias (1999), Ricardo Iglesias 

The project ‘SafeARTECH – Safeguarding digital, experimental and technological art from recent decades in Spain: perspectives, challenges and opportunities’ is dedicated to analysing artistic practices mediated by emerging technologies in Spain over the last four decades, focusing on their safeguarding through a comprehensive study of their acquisition, cataloguing, documentation, archiving, preservation, promotion and dissemination. 

As part of this research, SafeARTECH is organising a workshop in Barcelona aimed at developing tools and strategies for documenting contemporary, experimental and/or media-based works for conservation purposes. The workshop offers a practical space to adress the specific challenges that these types of work present in terms of recording and preservation. Therefore, registered artists are encouraged to bring samples of their work to use as case studies.

Programme:

• Introduction to expanded and relational documentation, and to the ecologies of divergent preservation practices. A conversation between Esther Moñivas (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Paca Blanco Olmedo (Medialab Matadero) y Vanina Hofman Matusevich (Universitat Rovira i Virgili)
• Workshops: dialogue as a model of documentation.
• Group discussion and final reflection, led by Daniel Miracle and HAMACA.

Designed for: artists, conservators-restorers, archivists, researchers, curators, technologists, students and members of the public interested in exploring collective and dialogic preservation models for contemporary artistic practices. No prior knowledge required.

Date and time: Thursday, 25th June from 17:00 to 20:00 h
Location: Hangar, Antiguas oficinas (Barcelona)
Price: Free admission

→ REGISTRATION FORM, open until 23th June 2026.