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Archive Talks
Every year, we meet with national and international experts from other cultural heritage institutions to discuss key topics in media archiving in an informal setting. Archive talks are designed as an invitation-only format with a limited number of participants. The content of each talk is communicated via our website and social media channels after the event.
The next Archive Talk will take place in May 2025.
Former events
Social Media in the Archive
Audio and video content from social media platforms is playing an increasingly important role in everyday media life. However, some questions remain unanswered from an archival point of view: Why should social media content be collected? Who collects this content? How can social media content be preserved? Together with several cultural heritage institutions, the Mediathek's 2023 Archive Talks series addressed the topic of ‘social media in the archive’ in the context of the three panels Collecting, Using and Producing.
The 2023 Archive Talks took place on 1 June 2023 in the Festsaal of the Technisches Museum Wien.
Archive Talks 2023, Panel 1: Collecting
Archive Talks 2023, Panel 2: Using
Archive Talks 2023, Panel 3: Producing
What do media archives stand for today?
Representatives of various Austrian cultural and memory institutions and cultural scientists spent a day discussing the current challenges of working with audiovisual archive and collection content.
In four rounds of talks, the spectrum of media-archival fields of activity was explored along the opposing pairs of knowledge - not knowing, telling - not telling, collecting - not collecting, public - not public.
Further information: (link to www.mediathek.at/archivgespraeche or transfer content to a new page)
The 2022 Archive Talks took place on 3 May 2022 in the Festsaal of the Technisches Museum Wien.
Archive Talks 2022
