What are the advantages for artists and agents?
If an artist gets an offer from a gallery or a museum, he or she has to convert a piece to the appropriate format for exhibiting and send it to them. If the institution is abroad the artist has to check their code system (PAL, NTSC, SECAM etc,) and region code. In many cases, these tasks have to be done by artists themselves, but if they don’t have certain equipment they have to pay for studio rental and a technician. They can outsource these tasks to a video archive. Sometimes artists can receive their fee without any practical or administrative costs thanks to the help of a video archive. On the other hand, if researchers and curators want to know about video art in Japan or are looking for some moving images for exhibitions, where should they go? They can go to a video archive. Most video archives will help people for research. MIACA will help those experts to find pieces. This is a huge advantage for artists and galleries in gaining another distribution channel. Moreover, in artist
