Conservation of Time-Based Media Art

This volume is the first to evaluate current practices and conceptual frameworks that have developed around the collection, preservation, and display of time-based media art. A critical resource for conservation students and professionals engaging with time-based media art.

Part 1: Caring for Time-based Media Art; 1. Implementing Time-based Media Art Conservation in Museum Practice - Joanna Phillips; 2. Theories of Time-based Media Art Conservation: From Ontologies to Ecologies - René e van de Vall; 3. A Roundtable: Curatorial Perspectives on Collecting Time-based Media Art - Annet Dekker in conversation with Karen Archey, Ulanda Blair, Sarah Cook, Ana Gonç alves Magalhã es, Sabine Himmelsbach, Kelani Nichole, Christiane Paul and Henna Paunu; 4. Institutional Assessments and Collection Surveys for Time-based Media Conservation - Lia Kramer, Alexandra Nichols, Mollie Anderson, Nora Kennedy, Lorena Ramí rez Ló pez, and Glenn Wharton; 5. Outside the Institution: Crossing the Boundaries of Communities and Disciplines to Preserve Time-based Media - Mona Jimenez, Kristin MacDonough and Martha Singer; 6. The Role of Advocacy in Media Conservation - Jim Coddington; Part 2: Building a Workplace; 7. Building a Time-based Media Conservation Lab: A Survey and Practical Guide, from Minimum Requirements to Dream Lab - Kate Lewis; 8. Digital Storage for Artworks: Theory and Practice - Amy Brost; 9. Staffing and Training in Time-based Media Conservation - Louise Lawson; 10. A Roundtable: Implementing Cross-Departmental Workflows at SFMOMA - Martina Haidvogl in conversation with Michelle Barger, Joshua Churchill, Steve Dye, Rudolf Frieling, Mark Hellar, Jill Sterrett, Grace T. Weiss, Layna White, and Tanya Zimbardo; Part 3: Cross-medium Practices in Time-based Media Conservation; 11. Documentation as an Acquisition and Collection Tool for Time-based Media Artworks - Patricia Falcã o, Ana Ribeiro, and Francesca Colussi; 12. Inventory and Database Registration of Time-based Media Art - Martina Haidvogl and Linda Leckart; 13. Digital Preservation and the Information Package - Nicole Martin; 14. Disk imaging as a back-up tool for digital objects - Eddy Colloton, Jonathan Farbowitz, and Caroline Gil Rodrí quez; 15. Managing and Storing Artwork Equipment in Time-based Media Art - Duncan Harvey; 16. The Installation of Time-based Media Artworks - Tom Cullen; 17. A Roundtable: Collaborating with Media Artists to Preserve their Art - Joanna Phillips and Deena Engel in conversation with Lauren Cornell, Mark Hellar, Diego Mellado, Steven Sacks, Lena Stringari, Siebren Versteeg and Gaby Wijers; Part 4: Medium-specific Practices in Time-based Media Conservation; 18. Caring for Analog and Digital Video Art - Agathe Jarczyk and Peter Oleksik; 19. Sound in Time-based Media Art - Chris McDonald; 20. Caring for Analog and Digital Film-based Art - John Klacsmann with a contribution by Julian Antos; 21. Caring for Slide-based Artworks - Jeffrey Warda; 22. Caring for Software- and Computer-based Art - Deena Engel, Tom Ensom, Patricia Falcã o , and Joanna Phillips; 23. A Word about Performance Art - Hé lia Març al.