Community

UNESCO PERSIST Community consists of a wide range of stakeholder organizations, including memory institutions, cultural organizations, ICT community, government organizations, and academia. It actively engages with partners and expert communities.

Collaborations are supported by the PERSIST Guidelines for the Community Engagement that were publicly reviewed in May 2018 and adopted following the community feedback. Find out more about UNESCO PERSIST partnerships, activities, meetings and events.

PERSIST promotes and contributes to projects that pursue similar and complementary activities.

Affiliate Partner Projects

Project: Archiving Australian Media Arts

The project aims to develop a good practice method for stabilising artworks from the archives of the Australian media arts organisations and institutional holdings, spanning the period 1991-97. More about Archiving Australian Media Arts.

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Collaborators:

  • Swinburne University
  • RMIT University
  • the Australian Centre for the Moving Image
  • the Art Gallery Of NSW
  • the State Library of South Australia
  • Griffith University Art Museum
  • Experimenta Media Arts
  • ANAT
  • dLux Media Arts
  • Rhizome.

Funding by Australian Research Council (LP180100307).

Project: Preservation of games Play it Again 2

Digital games make up a significant but little known chapter in the history of the moving image in Australia. Australian made videogames of the 1990s are at risk digital artefacts. More about Play it Again 2.

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This project aims to document, preserve, and exhibit the history of the Australian videogame industry during the 1990s. The challenge of preserving and accessing complex digital cultural heritage such as software is one that collecting institutions worldwide are facing.

This is a joint project lead by Swinburne University, with RMIT University, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), AARNET PTY LTD, and OpenSLX GmbH. The research is funded by the Australian Research Council (LP180100104).

Collaborators:

  • Swinburne University
  • RMIT University
  • the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI)
  • AARNET PTY LTD
  • OpenSLX GmbH.