Contact

ActiveArchives
Berne University of the Arts BUA
Fellerstrasse 11, CH-3027 Berne
Phone +41 31 848 38 75
Fax +41 31 848 38 81
info@aktivearchive.ch

Participants

Johannes Gfeller (Project Manager), BUA	johannes.gfeller@hkb.bfh.ch	+41 31 848 38 72
Tabea Lurk, BUA	tabea.lurk@hkb.bfh.ch	+41 31 848 38 75
Irene Schubiger, SIAR	irene.schubiger@sik-isea.ch	+41 44 388 51 92

Organisation
ActiveArchives is a project of the Berne University of the Arts BUA and the Swiss Institute for Art Research SIAR. ActiveArchives is supported by the Federal Office of Cultural Affairs as a part of the Sitemapping.ch project.

Participating Institutions
The Berne University of the Arts BUA is an independent department of the Berne University of Applied Sciences. The BUA course for conservation and restoration offers four areas for in-depth study. In 1999 Modern Materials was added to the traditional specialisations for Painting and Sculpture; Graphics, Typography and Photography; and Architecture and Interior Design. To meet the comprehensive requirements of modern and contemporary art, the Modern Media specialisation was added in autumn 2000. The latest two fields of specialisation have since been combined to form Modern Materials and Media MMM. The studio for MMM shares its media infrastructure with the ActiveArchives project, thus facilitating useful and necessary synergies for art technological research.

The Swiss Institute for Art Research SIAR, which was founded in 1951, is an internationally active research and documentation centre with emphasis on art in Switzerland. The Institute has headquarters in Zurich, with a branch at the University of Lausanne. Characteristic of the Institute is its combination of art history (an arts discipline) with art technology (a sciences discipline). The Institute is recognised and supported financially by the Swiss Federal Government. Additional funds are provided by the Canton and the City of Zurich, by other cantons and communities, as well as by private contributors. The Institute, in co-operation with museums, universities, and other institutions, realises research and publication projects. Generally the art research and art technology departments are involved in these projects. The library (which is open to the public), the documentation section, and the photo archives offer significant research sources.

Advisory Board
Jürgen Enge, info-age GmbH, Würenlingen, www.info-age.ch

Copyright
ActiveArchives is protected by copyright. The rights to translation, reprint, use of illustrations, electronic transmission, reproduction by photomechanical or similar means, and storage in data processing equipment, even in the form of extracts, are reserved.
© all texts by authors
© all illustrations by artists and photographers
© the English translation: Edith Haeuser, Staefa
© the French translation: Brigitte Gendroz, SIAR Lausanne, and Marguerite Zaugg, Berne
© composition and layout: Katarina Lang, Atelier Mühlberg, Basle, www.atelier-muehlberg.ch
© programming: Hanna Züllig, internauta, Zurich, www.internauta.ch

In spite of intensive investigation we have not succeeded in tracing the copyright holders of some reproductions. We ask legitimate copyright holders to contact ActiveArchives.

Disclaimer
All content and audio-visual documents are authorised only for non-commercial, research, educational, or personal use. Reasonable use is authorised only for these purposes. On the web pages of ActiveArchives hyperlinks have been set for access to other websites in the internet. ActiveArchives declares that no possibility for manipulating the layout or content of the linked web pages exists and that there is no intention to claim ownership of those pages. This declaration applies to all the hyperlinks on the ActiveArchives website. ActiveArchives makes no guaranty for the accuracy and topicality of the data accessible through those links.