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REGISTRATION REMINDER: TechFocus II: Caring for Film and Slide Art
Time is running short: register today!
TechFocus II: Caring for Film and Slide Art
April 27-28, 2012
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
The Electronic Media Group of the American Institute for Conservation
and the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation (FAIC)
are pleased to announce an important new two-day workshop: TechFocus
II: Caring for Film and Slide Art.
Projected motion picture film and slides are in a state of crisis. Far
more quickly than anyone could have anticipated, these technologies
will soon reach obsolescence. Options for duplication and preservation
are narrowing rapidly. Our collective familiarity and technical
understanding of this material is fading. Yet artists continue to
create vital works using film and slides, and older works by
significant artists are being shown in museums with increasing
frequency.
TechFocus II is designed to educate conservators, curators and other
art professionals about the technology of film and slide-based
artworks, and to recommend best practices for their acquisition,
preservation and display. As part of this instruction, the workshop
includes a unique “School of Seeing”: actual films and slides are
projected as examples of different production processes, so that
participants can gain an accurate understanding of the principles
under consideration. Moreover, this workshop will provide a forum for
international professionals to gather and debate strategies for
collective action in the face of disappearing film stocks, obsolete
equipment, and declining expertise.
The TechFocus workshop series is being organized by the AIC Electronic
Media Group to provide detailed technical education in the
preservation of media art. Launched on the 10th anniversary of the
groundbreaking TechArcheology symposium, held at the San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art in 2000, TechFocus offers in-depth instruction in
a broad range of media. Each workshop, hosted by a different
institution, is dedicated to one specific media-art technology. A
systematic lecture program, delivered by international experts,
introduces workshop participants to the technology behind these
artworks, and offers real-world guidelines for their preservation.
TechFocus II Planning Committee: Jeff Martin, Christine Frohnert,
Joanna Phillips, Eric Pourchot with Susan Lake, Sarah Stauderman, and
Gwynne Ryan.
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Non-AIC members: $250; AIC members: $200; Students $100
Please follow this link to register online: www.conservation-us.org/techfocus2
(Students who are not AIC members must pay by check and enclose a copy
of student ID)
Note: Participants must register in advance. On-site registration
will not be available.
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