Futures of Digital Media Art Histories

The Future of Digital Media Histories (FDHM) is propelled by an urgent and daunting cultural heritage crisis: the rapid loss of digital art and media from the past 40 years to changing technology. This loss has a devastating effect on our capacity to know and experience our heritage. Across Canada, the first decades of digital art and media production saw a flourishing of projects by artists and activists from diverse communities: Indigenous, racialized, feminist, queer, diasporic.

Kingston Heritage Film Project

The Kingston Film Heritage Project is an initiative to preserve and digitize the history of Kingston on film. With support from the Kingston Heritage Fund and the City of Kingston, the Vulnerable Media Lab has been able to research and restore elements of Kingston’s film history.

Sara Gómez Project