Yes, We CAN! Highlighting the Community
Collaborations of AIC’s Contemporary Art Network
By Joy Bloser, Gabrielle Crowther, Jen Munch, Samantha Owens, Olivia Schoenfeld, Martha Singer, and Andy Wolf for CAN!
AIC’s Contemporary Art Network (CAN!) has been hard at work creating initiatives that bring our community together for collaborative learning and idea exchanges. CAN! officers are deeply invested in working with our members to create engaging activities that support each of you as well as our profession. We are highlighting activities from three of our ongoing initiatives in this article: our series of CAN! Conversations, a Reading Group, and Speed Mentoring events.
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Time-based Media Art Conservation at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center: The First Five Years
By Christine Frohnert for the Electronic Media Group (EMG)
Time-based Media Art Conservation
In recognition of the ever-changing field of contemporary art conservation, New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center expanded its curriculum in fall 2018 by establishing a specialization explicitly for the conservation of time-based media (TBM) art—the first of its kind in the United States. Time-based Media (TBM) art, as we currently define the term, is characterized by having a durational element—such as sound, performance, light, or movement—that unfolds to the viewer over time via slide, film, video, software, or the internet.
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