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> From: "Martin, Jeffrey" <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: 1 February 2010 19:50:18 GMT
> To: Beryl Graham <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Smithsonian colloquium on conservation of time-based art
>

>
> COLLABORATIONS IN CONSERVING TIME-BASED ART
> A Colloquium co-sponsored by
> The Hirshhorn Museum and the Lunder Conservation Center,
> Smithsonian Institution
>
>
> •	Dates: March 17-19, 2010
> •	Location: The Donald Reynolds Center for American Art and 
> Portraiture, and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 
> Washington, DC
> •	Registration: free
>
> 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?
>
> Participants will also have the opportunity for first-hand engagement 
> with number of major time-based installations that will be on view at 
> the Smithsonian museums, including works by Nam June Paik, Paul 
> Sharits, Douglas Gordon, John Gerrard, Miguel Angel Rios, Phoebe 
> Greenberg, and David Hockney.
>
>
> Wednesday, March 17
> 7 PM	
> Keynote address by John Hanhardt, Senior Curator for Film and Media 
> Arts at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
> Location: Ring Auditorium, Hirshhorn Museum
>
> Thursday, March 18
> 9:30 AM – 4:45 PM
> Panels and presentations
> Speakers will include
>
> •	Jill Sterrett, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
> •	Glenn Wharton, Museum of Modern Art
> •	Chris Laciniak, Audiovisual Preservation Solutions
> •	Andrew Lampert and John Passmore, Anthology Film Archives
> •	Richard McCoy, Indianapolis Museum of Art
> Location: McEvoy Auditorium, Reynolds Center
>
> 7:00 PM
> Meet the Artist: John Gerrard
> Location: Ring Auditorium, Hirshhorn Museum
>
> Friday, March19
> 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
> Q & A Discussion about time-based installations on view
> Location: Hirshhorn Museum
> 1:00 PM  - 5:00 PM
> Working discussion groups tackling specific questions related to SI’s 
> future plans for conserving time-based art.
> Location: Reynolds Center
>
> The evening talks are free and open to the public.
> Thursday’s daytime presentations are free and open to professionals in 
> the field who have an interest in caring for these works.
>
> For practical reasons, participation in the Friday working groups will 
> be strictly limited, by invitation only. Further information is 
> available on the registration website.
>
>
> For more information, contact Jeff Martin, Conservator for Time-Based 
> Art, Hirshhorn Museum: martinj (at) si.edu.
>
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