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Cataloguing, Archiving and Exhibiting Digital Games

Central and Eastern European Historical Games Workshop 2024

Abstract

The first international conference dedicated to digital games as cultural heritage in Central and Eastern Europe will take place on 25–26 November 2024 at the Ponrepo cinema. The workshop Cataloging, Archiving and Exhibiting Digital Games is organised by the National Film Archive as part of Pixelarchiv.cz, a joint NAKI project of the NFA, FAMU and ČVUT.

The international conference Cataloging, Archiving and Exhibiting Digital Games brings to the Czech Republic for the first time the experience of leading figures in the field of interactive digital cultural heritage preservation. Keynote speakers will include Andreas Lange, President of the European Federation of Game Archives, Museums and Preservation Projects (EFGAMP) based in Berlin; Jakob Moesgaard from the Royal Danish Library in Copenhagen; Natalia Kovalainen and Jukka Kovalainen from the largest private game archive Embracer in Karlstad, Sweden; and Niklas Nylund from the Finnish Game Museum in Tampere. The main presentations will be accompanied by papers from representatives of private initiatives, research projects, museums, libraries, galleries and archives from Czechia, Estonia, Hungary, Poland, Austria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia. They will present the conditions and activities dedicated to the documentation, archiving and presentation of interactive cultural heritage in individual countries. In the final plenary discussion, participants from Central and Eastern Europe will attempt to propose common methods and a transnational organisation of game archiving for this region.

The conference is open to the public and admission is free. All participants must register at the entrance.
If you would like to watch the conference online on Zoom and Discord, please request access at pixelarchiv@nfa.cz. Individual presentations will be recorded and published on the National Film Archive's YouTube channel.

The workshop is organised as part of the research project Comprehensive Care for Cultural Heritage in the Field of Gaming Applications (DH23P03OVV047), funded by the NAKI III programme of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic.

programme

25th November

8.30–9.00	Registration and Refreshments
9.00	Introduction
9.20	Gaming cultural heritage in Europe: status quo, meaning, framework conditions, requirements, opportunities	Andreas Lange, EFGAMP (Keynote 1)
9.50	Discussion
10.00	Coffee break
10.20	Preserving Polish Digital Games	Paweł Frelik, Poland (online)
10.40	Preserving Hungarian Digital Games	Tamás Beregi, Hungary
11.00	Discussion
11.10	Coffee break
11.30	Games as national heritage - Reflections on 25 years of collecting Danish video games	Jakob Moesgaard, Royal Danish Library (Keynote 2)
12.00	Discussion
12.10	Lunch
13.20	If the world ends, I’m going to Vienna. Everything happens there ten years later	Jogi Neufeld, Austria
13.40	In search of lost gameplay	Pixelarchiv.cz – Jan Kremer, Czechia
14.00–14.10	Discussion
14.10–14.30	Coffee break
14.30	Preservation through use	Jukka Kovalainen, Embracer Game Archive (Keynote 3)
15.00–15.10	Discussion, Conclusion and Organisation
15.10–15.20	Let’s Play Czech(oslovak) Digital Games History	Interactive presentation of historical games by Retroherna.org

26 November

9.00	Introduction & Organisation
9.20	Collaborative game preservation at the Finnish Museum of Games	Niklas Nylund, Finnish Museum of Games (Keynote 4)
9.50	Discussion
10.00	Coffee break
10.20	Preservation of Creative Software Distribution and Grassroots Publishing Practices of the 1980s	Gaja Zornada, Slovenia
10.40	LVLUP!	Camille Laurelli, Estonia
11.00–11.10	Discussion
11.10	Coffee break
11.30	Videogames Museum	Miloš Jovanović, Romania
11.50	Slovak Design Centre	Adam Kysler & Vojtěch Straka, Slovakia
12.10–12.20	Discussion
12.20–13.20	Lunch
13.20–15.00	Final Discussion & Conclusion

Programme in PDF

conference_program_final_en.pdf (PDF 143,30 KB)

Organisers

Jan Kremer – Jakub Šindelář
pixelarchiv@nfa.cz
National Film Archive
Závišova 502/5
140 00 Prague 4 – Nusle, Czechia
www.nfa.cz/pixelarchiv/cs/projekt/konference

Conference venue

Ponrepo Cinema
Bartolomějská 11
110 00 Prague 1, Czechia
www.nfa.cz/en/ponrepo-cinema

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