The Kramlich Collection Is Relying on Arkivum to Digitally Preserve Its Multimedia Artworks

Arkivum for Digital Heritage: Case Study Kramlich Collection - Digital preservation of unique multimedia artworks

The Kramlich Collection is relying on Arkivum to digitally preserve its multimedia artworks

The Kramlich Collection is a San Francisco-based private collection of over 200 time-based media artworks. The collection includes video, slide, film, audio, and computer-based installations by artists considered to be pioneers in film nda video installation, such as Matthew Barney, Joan Jonas, Steve McQueen, Nam June Paik and Bill Viola.

“As custodians of some of the most important media artworks to be created over the last 50 years, it was clear to us that we needed to manage and safeguard this heritage in a way which Merce by Merce, Nam June Paik, 1978, video installation. © Nam June Paik ensured both high-level preservation and access for

The Challenge our immediate and future Many of the artworks in the Collection needs. were created in the 1960s, 70s and 80s The guarantee of data on media that is becoming progressively Arkivum Limited harder to play back from its original Top Floor integrity, together with The Walbrook Building exhibition formats, such as 16mm film, 25 Walbrook London VHS or LaserDisc video. This may either recognised institutional EC4N 8AF be because some of these media formats UK partners and a really +44 1249 405060 were not intended for long term storage, [email protected] excellent customer and @Arkivum or because the hardware on which to play Arkivum.com the content is getting scarce and difficult to IT team, were the key Title maintain. Kramlich Case Study reasons for our choice of Part no. In order to preserve the artworks, the ARK/MKTG/ALL/455/15.8.16

Kramlich Collection recently embarked on Arkivum. Version a digitisation programme of older material, 1.2 Aebhric Coleman, Director, while at the same time putting in place Document date Kramlich Collection May 2017 standards for the acquisition of new digital Status video artworks. To ensure that the entire Release

Collection is professionally managed and ” © Arkivum Ltd 2017 stored, and to facilitate the presentation, The Benefits study and enjoyment of the artworks far • Rapid deployment into the future, the Collection engaged Arkivum. • No lock-in to proprietary

The requirement was for a preservation architecture or software Nam June Paik, TV Buddha, 1989. and access solution that would enable the components that would negatively Single-channel video and artworks to be easily and rapidly accessible impact the long term digital mixed-media installation. © Nam June Paik from multiple geographic sites and for the preservation of the artworks digital assets to be archived within the following parameters: • 100% data integrity guarantee for the high-resolution digitised • Guaranteed data integrity and renditions of the artworks strong security and encryption when transmitting files around the • Open-standard and custom- solution designed solution that can be remotely managed by Arkivum, • Fast access to locally cached copies thus ensuring that the Kramlich of the artworks at each of the Collection doesn’t need to provide

Kramlich Collection locations any local IT resources or expertise

• A managed long-term digital • Multi-site access to the digitised archiving solution that does not collection of time-based media require the use of any third-party artworks

cloud storage • Highly scalable architecture that • No lock-in to any proprietary enables the system to be extended systems, in order to maximise to include sharing, streaming and access to the digitally preserved integration to, for example, video artworks far into the future jukebox services • No requirement for local IT resources or expertise

About Arkivum

The Solution Arkivum provides specialist best-of-breed long-term data safeguarding and archiving After considering a range of possible solutions, designed to respond to today’s solutions, the Kramlich Collection selected compliance and governance requirements. Arkivum’s industry-leading solution, designed for long-term data preservation. Arkivum works with institutions across many industries, all of which generate high The solution is based on local deployments amounts of mission-critical data that needs of Arkivum gateway appliances at Kramlich to be preserved for many years to come. Collection sites across the USA. The Arkivum Limited Top Floor unparalleled Arkivum solution provides The Walbrook Building 25 Walbrook the Kramlich Collection with a 100% data London integrity guarantee over decade-long EC4N 8AF UK timescales. Talk to us +44 1249 405060 [email protected] Through Arkivum’s unique technology, To find out more about @Arkivum fast, very low latency access to data is our solutions and to Arkivum.com Title achieved. This capability was a fundamental start securing your data Kramlich Case Study requirement - the preserved collection had today and for the future, Part no. to be quickly and easily accessible from please contact us on 44 ARK/MKTG/ALL/455/15.8.16 each location as viewing and displaying the (0)1249 405060 or email Version artworks was key to its existence. us at [email protected]. 1.2 Document date May 2017

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