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GAMA is a harvester targeted specifically towards media art. The gateway was launched in 2007 by 19 organisations from Europe’s culture, art and technology sector. They participated in the interdisciplinary project GAMA, supported by the European commission under the eContentPlus programme with 1.2 million Euro. The outcome of this project is a central portal to different European media art collections for the interested public, for curators, artists, academics, researchers, and mediators. The media art content initially comes from eight European media art archives including: ARGOS (Belgium), FILMFORM (Sweden) and NIMK (The Netherlands).The art projects presented include previews of experimental film and video art, performances and installations; they are documented and further contextualized with texts, lectures and events. For example, users will find details on early works from Hungarian net artists, video artworks from Slovenia, media art from the Netherlands, France and many other countries from inside and outside Europe, as well as documentaries from the Ars Electronica festivals or experimental films from Sweden. The portal networks different databases containing textual and visual information on more than 10,000 works. Search options include: A simple search box for a free text search on Person, Artwork, Event, Resource or All.Advanced Search for a structured search on specific elements describing Person, Artwork, Event, Resource or All.The GAMA Artist Finder to either search the first or last name of the artists or to browse on the last name. The metadata model that GAMA uses to aggregate the media art content from different providers is described using RDF.
This is an easy-to-use example of a thematic website for AV cultural heritage resources. It ranges from historical material of the 1920s to the present and is dedicated to the online access of a variety of European media art archives representing a large spectrum of media art (as a specific subset of the artwork domain).