VoCA Talks is a series of public programs featuring artists and their collaborators in conversation about the challenges and rewards inherent in making, showing, and preserving contemporary art...
Video: Patricia Falcão (TATE) on preserving file-based artworks (2017)
This video is the registration of the guest talk Patricia Falcão (TATE) gave on January 25, 2017. The talk was part of the Winter School for Audiovisual Archiving. Patricia Falcão from the TATE in...
Video: Pip Laurenson asks 'Can Artworks Live in A Museums Collection?'
In October 2016 as part of the NYU/IFA Conservation Center’s "Topics in Time-Based Media Art Conservation" lecture series, Pip Laurenson (Tate) asked her audience a tough question: Can Artworks Live...
Documentary film launched in February 2016 on born-digital art, with a special focus on the work of Peter Struycken. What is needed to be able to support museums and artists to sustain their digital...
Videos: Performing Documentation in the Conservation of Contemporary Art Conference, Lisbon 2013
About the conference Contemporary art conservation requires a re-assessment of the distinction between the work and its re-configuration in documentation. Although documentation is crucial for the...
Video: Restoring Mark Rotho's Black on Maroon at the Tate
Mark Rothko’s Black on Maroon 1958 went back on public view at Tate Modern on 13 May 2014, following 18 months of intensive work by the Conservation team and colleagues across Tate. The painting, one...
Video: GCI discussion on the conservation of plastic materials
The panel discussion 'Icons in Plastic' took place in January 2014 at the Getty Center. Tom Learner (Head of Science, GCI) talks with leading experts in the field, Thea van Oosten, Tom Bechtold and...
THE DEVELOPMENT OF SYNTHETIC POLYMERS IS ONE OF THE MAIN ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE CHEMICAL INDUSTRY DURING THE 20TH CENTURY. PLASTICS HAVE BEEN WIDELY USED TO PRODUCE DAILY LIFE OBJECTS AND ART ARTEFACTS...
Video: Contemporary Art: Who Cares? Susan Lake on The Role of the Conservator in an Evolving Acquisition Process.
Plenary lecture Title The Role of the Conservator in an Evolving Acquisition Process. Speaker Susan Lake, Director of Collection Management and Chief Conservator Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden...
Video: Contemporary Art: Who Cares? Opening session (2010)
Opening speech of the 2010 international symposium Contemporary Art: Who Cares? by Henriëtte van der Linden, director ICN and Evert van Straaten, director Kröller-Müller Museum and chair of the board...