Conference on anoxia and microfading--addendum

Anoxia and Microfading:
The impact on collection care
Tate
12-13 September 2011
10am - 5pm

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Program

    Monday 12 September 2011

        09.30           Registration, tea and coffee

        10.00           Welcome and introduction
                        Nigel Llewellyn, Head of Research, Tate

        10.10           Keynote:
                        David Grattan, Former Manager of
                        Conservation Research at Canadian
                        Conservation Institute
                        Anoxia and Microfading: The Impact on
                        Collection Care, Context and Challenge

        10.55           Stephen Hackney
                        Tate
                        The Benefits and Performance of Sealed
                        Enclosures

        11.15           Zane Cunningham
                        Tate
                        Designing Low Oxygen Frames

        11.35           Shin Maekawa
                        Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles
                        Getty's Oxygen-Free Display and Storage
                        Cases

        11.55           Matija Strlie
                        Centre for Sustainable Heritage, University
                        College London
                        Hypoxic Storage of Organic Materials: Paper,
                        Ink, Parchment, Photographs, Canvas

        12.15           Jacob Thomas
                        Kinetics of Heterogeneous Reactions Group,
                        Jagiellonian University, Krakow
                        Early 20th Century Pastel Drawings: An
                        Anoxic Case?

        12.35           Lunch

        13.30           David Thickett
                        English Heritage
                        Anoxia as a Means to Retard the
                        Deterioration of Archaeological Iron

        13.50           Chris Collins
                        Natural History Museum, London
                        Anoxia Storage for Natural History
                        Materials; A Review of their Use and Success

        14.10           Luisa Casella
                        Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas
                        at Austin
                        Display of Original Autochrome Plates in
                        Low-Oxygen Enclosures at the Metropolitan
                        Museum of Art

        14.30           Yvonne Shashoua
                        National Museum of Denmark
                        Anoxic Storage of Polymers

        14.50           Tea and coffee break

        15.20           Bruce Ford
                        Tate
                        Low Oxygen Framing and Microfading

        15.40           Nicki Smith (with video from Guy Hanson)
                        National Museum of Australia
                        Into the Light: Lighting Guidelines at the
                        National Museum of Australia

        16.00           Discussion groups

                            Group One: Assessing works for anoxia

                            Group Two: Incorporating microfading
                            into lighting policies

                            Group Three: Can you save resources with
                            microfading and low oxygen display and
                            storage?

        17.00           Report back and wrap up of day one.

        18.00           Drinks reception

    Tuesday 13 September 2011

        09.30           Mark Underhill
                        Tate
                        Oxygen Measurement

        09.50           Round table discussion

                            Microfading instrumentation
                            (standardisation, instrument design,
                            reciprocity, the use of blue wool
                            standards, consistency of results).

        10.45           Tea and coffee break

        11.15           Bertrand Lavedrine
                        Centre de Recherche sur la Conservation des
                        Collections (CRCC-CNRS)
                        Development of Microfading Testing for
                        Transmission Measurement on Colour
                        Transparencies

        11.35           Haida Liang
                        Nottingham Trent University
                        Developments on Portable Microfading
                        Spectrometry

        11.55           Julio M. del Hoyo-Melendez
                        Laboratory of Analysis and Nondestructive
                        Investigation of Heritage Objects, National
                        Museum of Krakow
                        Microfade Testing: A Promising Tool for
                        Evaluating the Light Fastness of Coloured
                        Fabrics and the Impacts on Lighting Policy

        12.15           Eric Hagan
                        The Canadian Conservation Institute
                        An Overview of Current Light-Fastness
                        Research at the Canadian Institute

        12.35           Lunch

        13-00-13.30     Poster Session)

        13.35           Working session to build collaborations and
                        develop the research agenda: What is the
                        most important thing that this research
                        field should do next? What will enable these
                        technologies to reach their potential for
                        the care of collections? Where will they
                        have the most impact?

        16.00           Close

Dr. Pip Laurenson
Head of Collection Care Research
Tate
Millbank
London SW1P 4RG
+44 207887 8776
+44 7966062962


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