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13,469 Live Views 392 In Crowd COLLABORATIONS IN CONSERVING TIME-BASED ART - March 18 at 9:30 am ET
It’s widely understood that the special challenges of conserving film, video, computer-based, and interactive art demand collaborative efforts—shared responsibility among a wide array of disciplines. Over the past decade, best practices and shared principles about the care of this art have been developed…emulation, migration, variability. But how do these practices actually work in the real world? This colloquium brings together conservators, artists, curators, exhibition designers, and audiovisual specialists in a series of case studies about collaboration, designed to provoke debate about how we have cared for these works thus far. Are we listening to all the voices that have a stake in caring for these works? Are we listening to the works themselves—allowing the work itself to determine its own future state? Are we willing to relinquish control over a work in order to save it? Are we as a community truly capable of insuring the long-term survival of these works, or is our job simply ensuring that they will have a dignified death? Speakers will include Jill Sterrett, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Glenn Wharton, Museum of Modern Art, Chris Lacinak, Audiovisual Preservation Solutions, Andrew Lampert and John Passmore, Anthology Film Archives, and Richard McCoy, Indianapolis Museum of Art.