Since 2004, AAA has been digitizing collections from individuals including artists, critics and researchers who do not want to part from their materials at that time. Other rare materials, particularly those in a fragile condition and requiring immediate conservation, or periodicals that have ceased publication, are also within the scope of our digitization project.

Selective Digitization Projects 

SCAN Taipei
An ongoing SCAN Project has also been organized by the AAA to reach out to overseas art communities to collect materials through scanning. For example, 'SCAN Singapore' was a project comprising of video screenings and an archive collection drive that took place on the occasion of MAAP (Multimedia Art Asia Pacific) Singapore 2004. To host the project, AAA set up a temporary office at The Substation, and a call for donation of documentation and materials related to contemporary art was made. 'SCAN Taipei' took place as part of 2006 Art Taipei at the Huashan Cultural Park in Taiwan. A booth was set up from which artists, critics and curators were invited to donate, photocopy or scan material. All the scanned material has been collated and catalogued, and is available for use in the archive's library.

Ray Langenbach's video archive of performance art in Southeast Asia, c. 1988 to 2007
Supported by the AAA and the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam, Netherlands), this project aims to re-master Malaysia-based artist Langenbach's private collection of video documentation spanning nearly twenty years (originally on DV and Hi-8 format) of performance art in Southeast Asia.

Roberto Chabet’s Archive – Covering Fifty Years of the Artist’s Materials
Initiated in 2008, the Roberto Chabet’s Project aims to compile and digitize primary material on the renowned Filipino artist and curator Roberto Chabet (b. 1937). The material includes Chabet's personal photographs of his work, letters, writings and exhibition notes, clippings from various books, newspapers and magazines, and invitations from the 1960s to the present. It also includes documentation of Chabet's works in public and private collections.

Ringo Bunoan, AAA researcher for the Philippines, is conducting interviews with Chabet and other artists and will draft a thorough artist’s biography and catalogue of work, which can be used for further research and publication.

AAA is teaming up with the Lopez Museum in Manila who will provide local access to the Chabet archive as well as from AAA.

The project was completed and launched in July 2009.

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Previous Project

Mao Xuhui's personal archive (since 2004)
Initiated after a research trip to Kunming in 2004 to visit painter Mao Xuhui, the AAA has been digitizing Mao's archive. The collection includes Mao's correspondence with fellow artists, curators and art critics, as well as sketchbooks, notebooks, manuscripts and exhibition ephemerals and documentation. Mao's material is brought to the archive's office in batches for digitization.

Completion of project: December 2008.

Related link:
http://www.aaa.org.hk/collection_detail.aspx?media_id=21938