Planning for TimeBased Media Artwork Preservation NDSRArt NDSR Art Resident Elise Tanner Project Mentors Marge Huang Digital Archivist Library amp Archives Department Rose Chiango ID: 780544
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Philadelphia Museum of Art:Planning for Time-Based Media Artwork Preservation
#NDSRArt
NDSR Art Resident: Elise Tanner
Project Mentors:
Marge Huang – Digital Archivist, Library & Archives Department
Rose Chiango –
Associate Archivist and Records Manager,
, Library & Archives Department
Allison McLaughlin – Collections Assistant, Contemporary Art Department
Slide2Philadelphia Museum of Art
Slide3Project Background2014: Launch of the Contemporary Caucus
2014-2015: Seven workshops involving outside guest lecturers on the themes of Collection, Conservation, Development, Marketing, and Performance & Public Programs2015:
Contemporary Caucus white paper outlines recommendation to perform a conservation assessment of the Museum’s time-based media artworks
2016: Contemporary
C
onservation Working Group formed
Spring 2017:
Conservation assessment of time based media artworks
Summer 2017:
Elise started her residency!
Slide4Fiona Tan, Inventory, 2012, six-channel color HD and color video installation, with sound
Project Overview
The Resident will help create a foundational roadmap to inform Museum staff of best practices, standards, tools, equipment, software, hardware, metadata and other technical needs which are imperative for the preservation of time-based media art in a sustainable and accessible way.
Slide5Challenges, Successes, Lessons Learned
Being a supervisor and a mentor can be challengingFitting everything into a yearAcclimating to institutional culture
Deep dive into TBM
Interdepartmental collaboration
Initiating important conversations
Creating TBM backups
The power of combining specialized knowledge distributed across an institution
Take advantage of the cultural heritage community