Conference on time-based media--addendum

Posted on behalf of Pip Laurenson, Head of Collection Care Research,
Tate

Provisional programme available and registration open:

"Media in Transition", a conference on the implications for
conservation of time-based media works of art and related practices
will be held at Tate Modern on the afternoon and evening of 18
November 2015 and for two days on 19-20 November 2015.

Provisional Programme

Level 1 Starr Auditorium
Tate Modern
18-20 November 2015

    Can works change and evolve within the museum and still serve
    art history?  What are the key moments of transition and
    engagement in the lives of time-based media artworks?  Can works
    be created with future forms of display or realisation in mind?
    How does the collecting of time-based media and performance
    change the frame in which we consider the conservation of other
    works?  What does it mean for these works if the networks of
    production and expertise are lost?  If we change the way of
    approaching conservation while working with artists now, can we
    also do that when these works have become historical rather than
    contemporary collections?  In migrating a work do we leave
    traces of its former life?  What is the nature of the invitation
    to an artist when a work enters the museum collection how does
    that relationship evolve?  The conference is organised into
    sessions; these are sometimes organised around a particular case
    study and sometimes around a theme.

Media in Transition is supported by the Getty Conservation
Institute, the Getty Research Institute with additional support from
the New Art Trust

18 November 2015

    14:00 - 17:00 Show and tell sessions

    These will be presented in spaces within Tate Modern outside of
    the auditorium.  These sessions will provide a unique
    opportunity to present to the conference participants
    demonstrations of the impact of a specific technological change
    on the experience of time-based media works of art.  For
    example, this might be the impact of changing display technology
    or the move from an analogue image to a digital image.  In some
    cases these demonstrations will relate to specific presentations
    within the conference.  Given the logistical challenges in
    making available these demonstrations to all of the
    participants, we will need to limit attendance per session and
    thus we will contact those registered for the conference to sign
    up for specific sessions in advance.

    18:30 - 20.00   Welcome Nick Serota (Director, Tate) and
                    Keynote speakers

19-20 November 2015
09:30 - 18:00

Session one:    Predictive Engineering by Julia Scher: A Case
                Study from the Artist Initiative, San Francisco
                Museum of Modern Art

                Presentations from

                    Robin Clark
                    Director, Artist Initiative

                    Rudolf Frieling
                    Curator of Media Arts

                    Martina Haidvogl
                    Advanced Fellow in the Conservation of
                    Contemporary Art

                    Julia Scher
                    Artist

Session two:    Paik and Fluxus: Object, Archive, and Performance in
                Paik's Multimedia

                Presentations from:

                    Hanna Holling
                    Andrew W. Mellon Visiting Professor, Bard
                    Graduate School

                    Michael Mansfield
                    Curator of Film and Media Arts, Smithsonian
                    American Art Museum

                    Sook-Kyung Lee
                    Research Curator, Tate Research Centre:
                    Asia-Pacific, Tate

Session three:  Global Networks, Local Models: Building, Preserving,
                and Circulating Media Archives

                Presentations from:

                    Glenn Phillips
                    Curator, Modern and Contemporary Collections,
                    the Getty Research Institute

                    Solange Farkas,
                    Director, Associacao Cultural Videobrasil

                    Clara Kim
                    Asia Cultural Complex, Gwangju, Korea

                    Lori Zippay
                    Executive Director, Electronic Arts Intermix)

Session four:   Migrating Meaning: Contextual Claims and the Work
                Itself:

                Case studies from Tate's History and Collection:
                Joseph Beuys, Gustav Metzger and TBC

                Presentations from:

                    Jonah Westerman
                    Research Associate, Tate

                    Andrew Wilson
                    Curator Modern and Contemporary Art and
                    Archives, Tate) TBC

Session five:   Facture and Facsimile: Bruce Nauman's Spinning
                Spheres

                Presentations from:

                    Francesca Esmay
                    Conservator, Panza Collection, Solomon R.
                    Guggenheim Museum

                    Jeffrey Weiss
                    Senior Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Session Six:    Through Another Frame: The Myth of Reproduction in
                Contemporary Photographic Conservation

                A presentation by:

                    Monica Marchesi
                    Conservator, Stedelijk Museum

Session Seven:  No Medium No Message? A Tale of Techno-cultural
                Dependency

                A presentation by:

                    Christine Frohnert
                    Conservator of Contemporary Art, Bek and
                    Frohnert

Session Eight:  Restaging Real-time: Considering the Reconstruction
                and Reinterpretation of the "Office of Information
                about the Vietnam War at Three Levels: The Visual
                Image, Text, Audio" (1968) by David Lamelas

                Presentations from:

                    Stuart Comer
                    Chief Curator, Department of Media and
                    Performance Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New
                    York

                    David Lamelas
                    artist
                    Kate Lewis
                    Media Conservator at The Museum of Modern Art,
                    New York

Additional contributions by:

    Professor Barry Smith
    Director of the Centre of the Senses University College, London

    Matthew Battles
    Principal, Associate Director, metaLAB, Harvard

For more information please see

    <URL:http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/conference/media-transition>

You can now follow us on twitter _at_MediaInTrans.

    Pip Laurenson
    Head of Collection Care Research
    Tate
    mediain.transition<-at->tate<.>org<.>uk

Pip and the Media In Transition Team


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