IASA-BAAC 2026 Conference

Name: Towards the Transmedia Archive: A Methodological Approach to Preserving Interactive Audiovisual Works in Colombia
Start: 2026-10-20T16:30:00+0300
End: 2026-10-20T17:00:00+0300

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Towards the Transmedia Archive: A Methodological Approach to Preserving Interactive Audiovisual Works in Colombia

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST

Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

The preservation of cinema rests on a century of consolidated methodology, but the digital preservation of interactive and transmedia works still lacks clear frameworks. Their technological substrates are unstable by design.

This presentation reports on a methodological approach developed from the analysis of five Colombian interactive works (2014–2021): 4 Ríos, Reconstrucción, Crónica de una ciudad que fue, Entre luces y sombras, and El Cubo. A shared analytical template surfaced common vulnerabilities — obsolete browsers, defunct game engines, discontinued immersive hardware — across a spectrum ranging from active development to substantially compromised access. Wider surveys of Colombian interactive production from the same period document more advanced loss (Arciniegas, 2019).

A structural finding reframes the technical problem: although Colombia's legal-deposit framework formally covers digital heritage, no institution currently has the capacity or methodologies to archive interactive or transmedia works operationally, and none of the works in this corpus has been acquired by an audiovisual archive. The works face obsolescence and a methodological gap in institutional custody simultaneously.

Drawing on the Variable Media Approach, the theory of evolutive conservation, code resituation, OAIS-based long-term preservation, and work-defining properties, the presentation proposes a four-phase methodology — creation, early documentation, active conservation, and re-presentation/access — together with a typology of four archive instances: conservation, research, access and curation, and experimental or recreation. These instances can coexist within a single institution or be distributed across collaborating ones, and the methodology can be applied in full or in parts as institutional capacity allows.

The contribution is twofold: a transferable analytical template for diagnosing fragility, and an argument that archival standards for behaviour-driven works require importing methods from new-media art conservation and defining institutional custody before the works disappear.

Speakers

Henry Caicedo Caicedo

Independent consultant, audiovisual conservation and digital preservation, Independent researcher

Since 2019, coordinator of the Archivo Vivo y Memoria programme at the Gerencia de Artes Audiovisuales del Idartes – Cinemateca de Bogotá. Member of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA) and the International Council on Archives (ICA). He holds... Read More →

Tuesday October 20, 2026 4:30pm - 5:00pm EEST
Statehood hall: Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania

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