ABOUT US - MIDE
International Electrography Museum - University of Castilla-La Mancha
Description The International Electrography
Museum (Museo Internacional de Electrografía, MIDE) of Cuenca is
a Museum-Research Centre which depends on the Institute for the Audiovisual
Communication (Instituto de la Comunicación Audiovisual, ICA) of
Castilla-La Mancha University (UCLM) and has its own budget and autonomy.
Its permanent staff comes from several departments of this university
(basically from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cuenca, the School for Industrial
Technical Engineering (Escuela de Ingeniería Técnica Industrial)
in Cuenca and the IT School of Albacete.)
Nowadays, the Museum has a collection of over four thousand electrographic
and digital works, a documentation-media library centre, a workshop on
digital technologies for graphics and a multimedia lab, where several
research projects and dissemination activities, always related to arts
and new technologies creation, take place.
At present, MIDE is a lively and dynamic museum. It is a model example
of an art centre specialised in a series of research parameters which,
with a low budget, meets its aims based on five action lines:
- Research: It opens its own research lines and invites
artists all over the world to collaborate in its own research projects
under the protection of Castilla-La Mancha University and the Ministry
for Education and Science
- Spreading: It carries out exhibitions and shows related
to the Media Art, or Arts and New Technologies fields, producing specialised
publications and offering the bibliographical, video and multimedia
resources belonging to its own Documentation Centre.
- Conservation: By means of the creation of a current,
lively and dynamic artworks collection (not only physical but also virtual),
it shows the last national and international developments for arts applications
of the new image technologies.
- Training: It updates the knowledge of artists, students
and national and international onlookers by offering specialised courses
and seminars within its specific scholarship programs for researchers
and workshop assistants.
- Sponsoring: It takes part in the financing of research
projects by lending MIDE's facilities and equipment to artists and researchers
for the development of specific projects and activities. It also brings
its own experience, technical advise and financing to research works
and interesting arts proposals on any of the research lines and subjects
considered as MIDE's specific activity areas.
Research lines
MIDE has clearly delimited the following research lines:
- Digital image techniques and processes by means of new electrographic
technologies applied to the field of traditional plastic arts creation.
- Interactive Multimedia, Computer Graphics and Dynamic image post-production
in digital video.
- Creative techniques and processes for the graphic telecommunication
technologies. (Net.Art, Fax Art, broad band real-time Tele-Transmission
and Internet network, etc.)
- Digital graphics.
- Educational use of the new image technologies. Pedagogy of the new
arts technologies.
- New contemporary art museum models in the telematics era. The virtual
museum.
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