INCCA members Pip Laurenson and Vivian van Saaze contributed a chapter in the book Performativity in the Gallery on Collecting Performance-Based Art. Full reference is: Laurenson, P. and Saaze, V. van...
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 7:00pm Museum Lecture Hall, Getty Center Plastics, which first came into use over one hundred fifty years ago, are ubiquitous in our lives. By the mid-twentieth century...
Symposium on conserving software-based art: Washington
Friday, January 17, 2014 from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM TECHNOLOGY EXPERIMENTS IN ART: Conserving Software-Based Artworks As artists continue to push the boundaries of what is possible through digital...
Dear INCCA members and colleagues all over the world, It is hard to imagine now, but when INCCA was established in 1999 the idea of a web-based database to share information was very new and for some...
The Gabo Trust for Sculpture Conservation is offering bursaries of up to £1,000 for suitable candidates to attend the conference, Aluminium: History, Technology and Conservation at the Smithsonian...
The collective contributions represent the most comprehensive exploration to date of the use of oil-based enamel paints by modern avant-garde artists, with a special focus on the historic house paints...
Getty Conservation Institute Appoints New Head of Science
Congratulations to Tom Learner, INCCA Steering Committee member. The Getty Conservation Institute has appointment Thomas J.S. Learner as Head of Science, effective January 6, 2014. Tom has been a...
Blog: Presto4U Paris Workshop (digital audiovisual preservation)
On December 4th, audiovisual archivists from across Europe gathered in Paris for a workshop in the context of the Presto4U project, The workshop concentrated on Digital Audiovisual Preservation in...
The project will deliver new tools and services to connect the different constituencies involved in AV media preservation: expert users, who understand the problems and require technological solutions...
Jessica Ford is a Class of 2014 paintings conservation major completing her third-year internship at the Lunder Conservation Center, Smithsonian American Art Museum, in Washington, DC. In this blog...