ANNUAL SUMMITS 2007 Summit Creation of the Research, Contemporary Art and Technological Obsolescence Department at the CRRMF
Creation of the Research, Contemporary Art and Technological Obsolescence Department at the CRRMF
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Day 1, Group 2
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 technological change on the preservation of contemporary artworks, or more precisely, on the phenomena associated with obsolescence ... * Please note most of this presentation is in French. |
| Cécile Dazord © DOCAM 2007 |
| ... The C2RMF team includes Cécile Dazord, initiator of the project; Clotilde Boust (research teacher specialising in the human vision and the characterisation of digital images); Erwan Huon (director and audiovisual technician specialising in multimedia video and installations); and Jean-Gabriel Lopez (image digitisation consultant). A task force comprised of members outside C2RMF was also established. The methodology adopted is based on case studies drawn from public collections (some 10 cases are currently under study). Statutorily, all public museums are partners of the C2RMF. The team is also implementing collaborations with institutions in France and abroad facing similar – while sometimes markedly different – problems. These institutions include Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), Institut national de l’audiovisuel (INA), Institut national du Patrimoine (INP), Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany, Tate Modern/Media Matters in London, etc. Two problems constitute the key areas of study: i) the conversion of analog to digital and ii) the use of obsolete materials intrinsically associated with the works. Cécile Dazord : Classics Fellow (1993) Master’s degree and DEA in Classics and History from Université de la Sorbonne-Paris IV on the work De Architectura by Leon Battista Alberti (first class honours) (1992/1994). Graduate of the Institut national du patrimoine (1997-2000). Thesis conducted at École des hautes études en sciences sociales under the supervision of Eric Michaux on the Brazilian and Argentinean arts scene in the 1970s (begun in 2000/suspended in 2002). Curator at the Musée national Picasso; Magnelli, Musée de la céramique de Vallauris (2000) (Curator of Pierre Charpin and Jasper Morrison exhibitions). Curator of Contemporary Art, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg (2001-2006) (Curator of exhibitions of works by Cildo Meireles, James Lee Byars, Guillauem Paris, and Claude Lévêque). Since 2006, Curator of Contemporary Art, Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF). Responsible for establishing a program of study on the specific problems inherent to contemporary art. Independent art critic (collaboration on publications Parachute, Mouvement, Journal des arts) and author of catalogue texts (Claude Lévêque, Jérôme Saint-Loubert Bié, Cécile Babiole). Freelance French translator of texts on art (from English, Spanish and Italian). Grégoire Quenault, specialises in experimental video and cinema. He holds a Ph.D. in Aesthetics, Science and Technology of the Arts from Université de Paris VIII and is a lecturer at Université de Picardie – Jules Verne in Amiens. He is also a member of the task force led by Cécile Dazord at the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Musées de France. For three years, Quenault was responsible for the archives at the Cinédoc and Paris-Films-Coop cinematheque (a collection of experimental and avant-garde videos and films), and since 2001 he has worked as a moving image programmer for La Mariée Désirante at the Scène Nationale d’Orléans. He is the author of a thesis entitled “Reconsidération de l’histoire de l’art vidéo à partir de ses débuts méconnus en France entre 1957 et 1974” (Revisiting the history of video art from its obscure beginnings in France, 1957 to 1974). |