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Finding info on Time Based Media

Once every 3 years I get the opportunity to teach at the School of Conservation in Copenhagen on the topic of Time Based Media. As a help to find more on the topic I usually have some links for the students. In this post I’ll mention a few sites that focus on how to document and make a workflow for dealing with Time Based Media in a collection.

Matters in Media: A collaboration between MoMA, SFMoMA and Tate. It includes quite a few useful documents and an explanation of the whole workflow when working with time based media. All the way from before the museum acquires the artwork, assessing the costs of installation and preservation and also how to document different types of media, from video tapes to projectors.

mattersinmediaart.org

Guggenheim New York has a web page explaining what their department of time based media conservation are doing, as well as sharing useful documents.

guggenheim.org/conservation/time-based-media

INCCA - International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art: Website with updates related to contemporary art, articles, workshops, books and blog posts. Regards several topics within contemporary art, not just time based media. Possibility for networking across institutions and posting topics.

incca.org

#Time Based Media

A new beginning

As many of us are working from home these days, I have been feeling the urge to restart something I began many years ago. As the situation with the Covid-19 virus has only just started and the most secure and healthy thing is to stay at home, I will use this blog as a way to keep my own enthusiasm for conservation and museums afloat.

Eight years ago, I started a blog about conservation. Back then, there was not a lot of information about conservation and restoration and I found it to be a good way of collecting interesting articles, photos and events that I wanted to know more about. But also a place to share projects I was doing in the conservation field. Since then many conservators and cultural institutions have become a lot more digitally present and there is really a lot of good content about preservation and restoration around. As the years went by, I found my own activity on the internet starting to dwindle as family life took over.

To sum up where it all began with the media conservators blog lets go back to 2012. I was what they now call an “emerging conservation professional” and had just finished my bachelor’s degree in graphic conservation from the School of Conservation in Copenhagen. I had moved to the Netherlands for an internship at Netherlands Media Art Institute (now called LIMA) and was itching to get more knowledge about particularly preservation of video and installation art.

After the internship, Gaby Wijers (now director of LIMA) offered me the possibility to be part of an EU project called Digitising Contemporary Art. My bachelor project had focused on digital preservation and I was given the responsibility to write deliverables about this topic as part of the Netherlands Media Art Institute.

The time there has really given me knowledge and contacts in the world of digitisation, video art and preservation that I still use and appreciate today.

Now, working as conservator and assistant registrar at Louisiana Museum of Modern art I have the responsibility of not only Time Based Media, but the whole art collection. The latest initiative was to go on a site visit to Tate Moderns department of Time Based Media Conservation. This has to wait for now, but in the mean time I will be reading about their Pericles project about sustaining consistent video presentations and the life of digital things. Links can be found below.

That’ll be all for today as the kids are pulling at my sleeve. However, hope to have some interesting topics the coming days!

Links: li-ma.nl , sofielh.tumblr.com, tate.org.uk

#conservation #blog #digitisation

Symposium about post-1960s photographic artworks to which different materials were applied, how to preserve them and keep the authenticity of the artworks. It is based on a 4 year research project based at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

#stedelijk museum #symposium #photographic conservation

#metropolitan museum of art #paperconservation #michelangelo

Very thorough post on the project of conserving the famous painting at the Huntington Library

#huntington library #art conservation #thomas gainsborough

Fascinating giant glas negative by Holtermann being digitized

#glass plate negative #icom cc 2017

sfmoma

Julie Mehretu’s HOWL, eon (I, II), 2017 in the Haas Jr. Atrium were the largest paintings we have ever installed. On view (for free) starting this weekend.

New research on treating artwork made of plastic.

Next week the ICOM Conservation Conference will kick of in Copenhagen. I’m excited to hear more about the results from the Getty presented in the following link. Especially treatments for face mounted photography.

#plastic conservation #icom-cc 2017 #Conference

smithsonianlibrariesarchives

Striking black and white illustrations from Banshō zukan 萬象圖鑑 volume 2 from publisher Kobayashi Bunshichi.

See more Japanese Illustrated Books from the Edo and Meiji Periods.

#conservation #art conservation #the getty #database

#contemporary art #art conservation

msulconservationlab

Our Comic Art Collection is home to 250,000+ comic books, as well as a wide related object such as toys, games, t-shirts, candy, and other ephemera.

As standard practice, we remove and discard food from its packaging before incorporating it into the collection to avoid attracting pests. These items were overlooked and when the Archivist noticed this, she brought it to my attention.

I removed and discarded the candy - some of it 30 years old (the Howard the Duck head is from 1986). Most of the candy has held up surprisingly well, although no one in the lab could be convinced to try some.

You can find our more about this collection here.

Thorough run through of the restoration of Ansel Adams stamp collection album!

#ansel adams #stamps #paper conservation #paper restoration

Nice blog from the conservation lab, here a post about finger weights👍

#penn museum #conservation lab

I just discovered that Winnie the Pooh actually exists in real life! Now restored and put together at New York library.

#winnie the pooh #restoration #textile conservation

There are all sorts of projects, and when Mr. Goya knocks at the door, the red carpet is ready to receive him at the studio: Please, come in! The series of prints The Disasters of War by Francisco Goya arrived at the studio in a fairly intact condition, with its 80 etchings, corresponding to the very first edition (in later editions two more etchings were added, making a total of 82). This first one was edited in 1863, more than forty years after the period they witness (1810-1820), and when Goya was already dead (1828). The prints reflect not only the cruelty of war, but most of all its absurdity. The critical eye of the painter, who acts also as a war reporter, makes this artwork a historical document of prime importance (we must remember that photography would burst in only a few years after): 'I saw it' ("Yo lo vi" caption above print #44), 'And so this' ("Y esto también", caption above the next one, #45). A chilling documentation with both technical and artistic quality that I

#Goya #paper conservation

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