‘Preservation of Electronic Media’

June 8-13, 2000

Location: Adams Mark Hotel in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The general session, entitled ‘Preservation of Electronic Media’, will commence on the morning of Friday, June 9th. The keynote speaker is Maxwell L. Anderson, Director, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY with a lecture entitled ‘Cupped Hands in the Stream: Digital Media's Challenge to Collecting Institutions’.

The program includes the following lectures:

Justin Graham

Creating a Digital Archive for the Most Well Documented Movie Ever - Star

Wars

Image Archivist, LucasFilm, San Rafael, CA

Pip Laurenson

Between Cinema and a Hard Place: The Conservation and Documentation of a Video Installation by Gary Hill

Conservator of Media Arts, The Tate Gallery, London, England

Jim Lindner

Technological Evolution of Video

 President, VidiPax, New York, NY

William P. Murray

Accelerated Life Expectancy Estimation of Data Storage Media: How Long Will It Last, and How Do You Know?

Reliability Engineer, Maplewood, MN

Abby Smith

Immaterial Culture: Collecting in the 21st Century

Council on Library Information Resources, Washington, DC

Judith Van Baron

Documentation as Conservation: The Process of Becoming and Sustaining Art

Vice President for External Affairs, Savannah College of Art and Design,

Savannah, GA

Sarah Stauderman

Collecting Video Art: What are the Minimum Accession Requirements?

Conservator, VidiPax, New York, NY

Jeff Rothenberg

Digital Information Lasts Forever--or Five Years, Whichever Comes First

Senior Computer Scientist, Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA

Lectures on Saturday, June 10th:

Marion Mecklenburg

The Effects of Moisture Content on Cultural Materials

Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education, Washington, DC

and Sheila Fairbrass

Surface Measurements Systems, Cooperburg, PA

Guy Munsch

Laser Technologies and Digital Analysis for the Documentation, Assessment and Treatment of Historic Structures and Sites

Architectural Conservator, Philadelphia, PA

Marc Reeves and Anna Stenstrom

On-line Artifactual Treatment Documentation Management System and Multimedia Training Production

The Goldsmith Conservation Laboratory, New York Public Library, New York,

NY

James M. Reilly, Douglas Nishimura, Edward Zinn and Maria Fernanda Valverde

Computerized Information System for Preservation Management

Image Permanence Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester,

NY

Andrew Robb

The Use of Handheld Computers in Preservation and Conservation Settings

Library of Congress, Washington, DC and Jeanne Drewes, Michigan State

Libraries, Lansing, MI

Tara Shedlosky and E. Rene de la Rie

The Application of Digital Image Analysis to Performance Assessment of Coatings on Outdoor Bronze and Copper

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and Lynn Brostoff, Research Center on the Materials of the Artist and Conservator

John Singer Sargent as Muralist, Architect and Sculptor: Examination and Treatment of the Rotunda and Grand Staircase at the Museum of Fine Arts,

Boston

Lydia Vagts and Pamela Hatchfield

Cambridge, MA; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Elizabeth Goins and Chandra Reedy

The Application of Image Analysis to Thin-Section Examination in Objects and Architectural Conservation

University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Joseph Barabe

Imaging Zapruder's JFK Assassination Film: A Hybrid Approach to Preservation and Presentation

Director of Scientific Imaging, McCrone Associates, Westmont, IL

Financial support for the 28th Annual Meeting has been generously provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, the Claneil Foundation, the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training, Willard

Developments LTD, Heritage Preservation and Aon/Huntington T. Block Insurance Agency.

The American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC) is the national membership organization of conservation professionals dedicated to preserving the art and historic artifacts of

our cultural heritage for future generations.

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works (AIC)

1717 K Street NW Suite 200

Washington, DC 20006

202-452-9545

Fax: 202-452-9328

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