Panopticon

Passed on by a fellow member, as thought it might be of some interest.
It is free, open to the public, and just a bus ride away from Simmons!

April 10th, 2010, 9:00am – 6:00pm
Symposia
Technical Conservation Issues of Time-Based Media
Andrew W. Mellon Symposium in Conservation Science
Arthur M. Sackler Museum @ 485 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138
This symposium brings together scientists, conservators, artists, and curators to discuss the conservation issues of time-based media. It will focus on current scientific and technical topics as well as possible directions for future research. Organized by Lynn Lee, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Conservation Science, Harvard Art Museum/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies.

9am Coffee and refreshments

9:30am
Welcome
Thomas W. Lentz, Elizabeth and John Moors Cabot Director, Harvard Art Museum
Introductory Remarks
Lynn Lee, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Conservation Science, Harvard Art Museum/Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies

10am
Keynote Presentation: Clones, Copies, and Codices: Is It Conservation? Is It Science?
Pip Laurenson , head of time-based media conservation, Tate, London

11am
How I Got into TV
Peter Kirby, director and editor, Media Art Services, Los Angeles

11:45am
CD-R and CD-ROM Research at the Library of Congress
Stephen Hobaica, Preservation Research and Testing Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

12:30pm Lunch

2pm
Preserving Video: The Digital Transition
Angelo Sacerdote, preservation program manager, Bay Area Video Coalition, San Francisco

2:45pm
Using Emulation to Preserve Digital Artifacts: Recent Experiences and Thoughts of an Emulation Proponent
Jeff Rothenberg, senior computer scientist, RAND Corporation, Santa Monica

3:30pm Coffee break

4pm
The Virtualization of Agent Ruby: A Case Study in the Preservation of Web Art
Mark Hellar, principal, Hellar Studios, San Francisco

4:45pm
New Media beyond the White Cube: Preserving Digital Art
Christiane Paul, adjunct curator of new media arts, Whitney Museum of American Art; director of media studies graduate programs and associate professor of media studies, The New School, New York

5:30pm Reception

Free admission. Open to the public. No registration required.
Complimentary parking for this event is available at the Broadway Garage, 7 Felton Street.
For more information, please contact Kathleen Kennelly at 617-495-2392 or kathleen_kennelly@harvard.edu.
Funding for this symposium has been generously supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

(I, at least am tentatively interested, so if anyone else is, and you want to try to meet ahead of time, please email me directly. maclinsATsimmons.edu)

The Dutch Room: Absence and Desire
Thursday, March 11 at 6:30pm Buy Tickets

With Artist-in-Residence Elaine Reichek
and Curator of Contemporary Art Pieranna Cavalchini
Moderated by Alan Chong, William and Lia Poorvu Curator of the Collection

The Gardner Museum’s Dutch Room is marked by the absence of six works of art stolen in 1990. While the Gardner theft has evoked stories and speculation, it is also experienced by many as a painful loss. In this Room Views conversation, Curator Alan Chong will frame the history of the Dutch Room; Curator Pieranna Cavalchini will discuss how several artists have responded to this absence; and Elaine Reichek, Artist-in-Residence in 2001, will share her experience of this particular room and her web project madamimadam.

Conceptual artist Elaine Reichek has worked in many different mediums. She has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus, OH; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium; De Appel, Amsterdam, Holland; and The Tel Aviv Art Museum, Israel. Reichek lives and works in New York. Program followed by a wine reception around the courtyard.

The Room Views series offers new ways of understanding the Gardner Museum, not only in terms of Isabella Gardner’s intentions for her installations but also how contemporary approaches shed light on the creative process.

Tickets: $10 General Public; $5 Museum Members & Seniors; FREE Students
Tickets are available online, through the Gardner Box Office at 617 278 5156, or at the door (pending availability). Handling charges apply to tickets purchased online or by phone.