Day 2, Group 1 Richard Gagnier, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts   The presentation by Richard Gagnier on behalf of the committee for Case Studies in Restoration and Conservation will focus on the work accomplished in 2007, most notably with regard to the overall approach used in pre...

Preserving contemporary art today conveys new challenges for museums and exhibition spaces with the emergence of variable media. The knowledge of the technological aspects and the intellectual content of an artwork are essential in order to preserve its integrity and authenticity. In this regard, th...

Day 2, Group 2 Ainsley Walton, Claudia De Hueck scholar – National Gallery of Canada The National Gallery of Canada holds numerous 35mm slide-based artworks in its permanent collection. The use of slides as a presentation method for projecting photographic images holds an integral po...

  Alexandre Castonguay, Générique, 2001, Interactive video installation, Collection Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal. Photo: Richard-Max Tremblay © Alexandre Castonguay.   Resources available on the DOCAM Web site:   • Cataloguing Guide for New Media...

Day 1, Group 1 Richard Gagnier, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), chair of the DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee, Montréal The term ‘time-based media’ encompasses works of art that deploy their effects within a certain notion of mobility or changes that occur in...

Day 1, Group 1 Mona Jimenez, Sarah Resnick, and Yvonne Ng, New York University Graduates of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at New York University will present two conservation assessments conducted in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, as part of the g...

Day 1, Group 2 Howard Schubert, Ivanka Iordanova, and Alexis Lenk, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee, Montréal Preserving and cataloguing digitally born architectural projects is a challenge that should be met quickly in order to...

  Christine Davis, Tlön, 2003, installation, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Installation view. Photo © 2003, MMFA.   Resources available on the DOCAM Web site:   • Conservation Guide: Common problems > Tlön, Christine Davis • Conservation Guide: Conserv...

Day 1, Group 2 Cécile Dazord, Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France Grégoire Quenault, art historian In 2006, the research department of the Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF) launched a study program on the impact of ...

    Resources available on the DOCAM Web site:   • Conservation Guide: Common problems > The Moment of Truth, Daniel Dion • Conservation Guide: Conservation strategies > Storage • Cataloguing Guide for New Media Collections: Copyright • Visite du...

  David Rokeby, Machine for Taking Time, Installation, 2001, Gairloch Gallery, Oakville. Photo © 2007, Oakville Galleries.   Resources available on the DOCAM Web site:   • Conservation Guide: Common problems > Machine for Taking Time, David Rokeby • Catalo...

Day 1, Group 3 Caitlin Jones, New York, Researcher in Residence, FDL Paul Kuranko, New York, Researcher in Residence, FDL During their residency, Caitlin Jones and Paul Kuranko will undertake three case studies of artwork and will survey and assess the considerable amount of activity ...

Day 1, Group 3 Lizzie Muller, Australia, Researcher in Residence, FDL The actual, lived experience of the audience is a central concern in contemporary culture, which finds particular expression in New Media Art.  With its emphasis on interaction, dematerialisation, systems and genera...

Day 1, Group 1 Jon Ippolito, University of Maine Richard Rinehart, UC Berkeley Art Museum. Curators and conservators have traditionally prided themselves on their contact with the original artifact. While readers of histories rely on their imaginations to reconstruct a culture from ...

  Greg Lynn, Embryological House, 1997-2001, Canadian Centre for Architecture. MicroStation drawing of primitive geometrical form from which the House iterations were developed © 1997-2001, CCA.   Resources available on the DOCAM Web site:   • Conservation Guide: C...

Day 2, Group 2 Guillaume Labelle, Université de Montréal Lawrence Bird, McGill University – CCA The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) is in the process of acquiring several digital archives. These include Greg Lynn’s Embryological House (1997-2002), an early example of the d...

Day 2, Group 1 Guillaume Boutard, Institut de Recherche et de Coordination Acoustique / Musique (IRCAM), Paris   Guillaume Boutard © DOCAM 2008 2008/sommet2008_311_intro A graduate of the Université Pierre & Marie Curie, Guillaume B...

  Jenny Holzer, UNEX Sign No. 2 (selections from "The Survival Series"), 1984, The National Gallery of Canada. Photo © 1992, NGC.   Resources available on the DOCAM Web site:   • Conservation Guide: Common problems > UNEX Sign No. 2 (selections from "The Survival Seri...

Day 2, Group 1 Bruno Bachimont, Erik Gebers and Johann Holland, Université technologique de Compiègne (UTC), National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France UTC/CNRS designed an interface dedicated to the community members of the performing arts domain. Thanks to the iterativ...

Day 1, Group 1 Richard Gagnier, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) and DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee, Montréal Émilie Boudrias, DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee, Montréal This presentation focuses on an analysis of two interviews with artists. It ...

February 11, 2008 James Turner, EBSI, Université de Montréal James Turner © DOCAM 2008 seminaire2008_turner.xml

Day 1, Group 1 Richard Gagnier, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), chair of the DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee, Montréal Conservation and Preservation Committee presentation. The term ‘time-based media’ encompasses works of art that deploy their effects within a c...

  Nam June Paik, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, 1989, Video installation, Collection The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Photo: MMFA, Christine Guest.   Resources available on the DOCAM Web site:   • Conservation Guide: Common problems > Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Na...

Mona Jimenez, Sarah Resnick, and Yvonne Ng, New York University Richard Gagnier, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) and DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee, Montréal Émilie Boudrias, DOCAM Conservation & Preservation Committee, Montréal 2008/sommet2008_214_...

Day 1, Group 4 Gaby Wijers, Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMk), Amsterdam The focus of this case study, within the scope of the Inside Installations project, was to establish what was important for the preservation of Jeffrey Shaw’s computer-based interactive installation and how...

    Resources available on the DOCAM Web site:   • Conservation Guide: Common problems > Nut•ka•, Stan Douglas • Conservation Guide: Conservation strategies > From emulation to migration • Conservation Guide: Content media > Digital mode: Image u...

Day 1, Group 2 Caitlin Jones, Guggenheim Museum, New York Conservators have explored many traditional and experimental strategies for dealing with works of an ephemeral nature. Among these strategies is a way to replicate obsolete or unavailable materials or hardware – emulation. To emu...

Day 1, Group 4 Pip Laurenson, Tate, London This talk reflects on “where we are now” in the conservation of time-based media works of art and the challenges we face over the next few years... Pip Laurenson © DOCAM 2006 2006/sommet2006_41_laurenson ...

March 30, 2009 Marianne Cloutier, research assistant for the DOCAM Pedagogical Committee, and PhD Candidate in Art History, UQAM   * Please note that this presentation is in French Marianne Cloutier © DOCAM 2009 seminaire2009_cloutier.xml 1) Introducti...

En 2001, l’artiste canadien David Rokeby a reçu une commande des Oakville Galleries pour réaliser une oeuvre qui établirait un rapport avec le jardin adjacent à l’un des pavillons des galeries. L’artiste a alors créé une oeuvre in situ, Machine for Taking Time. Au printemps 2006, le comm...

March 27, 2007 Marie-Christiane Mathieu, artist, researcher, Studio XX manager   * Please note that this presentation is in French Marie-Christiane Mathieu © DOCAM 2007 seminaire2007_mathieu.xml 1) Pratique artistique : Rôle et responsabilité de l�...

March 9, 2009 Richard Gagnier, Head of the Conservation Department, Montréal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA)   * Please note that this presentation is in French Richard Gagnier © DOCAM 2009 seminaire2009_gagnier.xml 1) Préservation de l'équipement (Royal...

January 17, 2006 Caitlin Jones, Guggenheim Museum, New York Caitlin Jones © DOCAM 2006 seminaire2006_Jones.xml 1) Introduction to the Variable Media Network, description of variable media behaviours, and strategies for preservation / Introduction au Réseau ...