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AIC's 46th Annual Meeting

Ben Fino-Radin

Small Data Industries
Conservator
Brooklyn, NY

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Ben Fino-Radin is the founder of Small Data Industries, a New York based lab dedicated to supporting and empowering people to safeguard the permanence and integrity of the world’s artistic record.. Prior to founding Small Data, Ben served as Associate Media Conservator at the MoMA in New York, where he was responsible for the design and implementation of the institution’s digital repository, as well as the conservation of born-digital works of art.

9:00am MDT

Packing, Crating, and Shipping WorkshopFILLING River Oaks Meeting RoomJason Carey-Sheppard • Meg Colbert • Aaron Salik • Jillian Salik

8:20am MDT

Opening General Session - Welcome and Awards Texas Ballrooms A-DMargaret Holben Ellis

9:00am MDT

Materiality and Immateriality in Conserving Contemporary Art Texas Ballrooms A-DGlenn Wharton

9:30am MDT

Practicing what we preach: An argument for the recognition and preservation of a material culture of conservation Texas Ballrooms A-DCarrie McNeal

10:00am MDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Texas Ballrooms E-H (Exhibit Hall)

11:00am MDT

Preserving Innovation: Considering the Treatment and Materiality of 3D Printed Objects in Museum Collections Texas Ballrooms A-DVanessa Applebaum

11:30am MDT

The Physical Nature of Digital & What it Means for Conservation Texas Ballrooms A-DCrystal Sanchez • Lauren Sorensen

12:00pm MDT

Opening General Session Discussion Session Texas Ballrooms A-D

2:00pm MDT

(Electronic Media) Rewind, Pause, Playback: Addressing a Media Conservation Backlog at the Denver Art Museum Briargrove Meeting RoomEddy Colloton • Kate Moomaw

2:30pm MDT

(Electronic Media) Archiving Computer-based Artworks Briargrove Meeting RoomJonathan Farbowitz

3:00pm MDT

(Electronic Media) Conservation Surveys for Time-based Media Art Collections Briargrove Meeting RoomMona Jimenez

3:30pm MDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Texas Ballrooms E-H (Exhibit Hall)

4:00pm MDT

(Electronic Media) Sounds Challenging: Documenting the Identity and Iterations of Ragnar Kjartansson's "The Visitors" Briargrove Meeting RoomAmy Brost

4:30pm MDT

(Electronic Media) VR tools as spatial documentation Briargrove Meeting RoomJack McConchie

5:00pm MDT

(Electronic Media) Time-based Media Art Conservation Education Program at NYU: Concept and Perspectives Briargrove Meeting RoomChristine Frohnert • Hannelore Roemich

5:30pm MDT

(Private Practice) Conservators in Private Practice Group Business Meeting Westchase Meeting RoomKerith Koss Schrager

6:30pm MDT

Electronic Media Group Networking Reception Live Oak Friends Meeting HouseLive Oak Friends Meeting House

7:30am MDT

(Electronic Media) Electronic Media Group Reception Briargrove Meeting RoomCrystal Sanchez

9:00am MDT

(Electronic Media) Collaboration in the Aesthetic Zone: Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg Briargrove Meeting RoomShu-Wen Lin • Cori Olinghouse • Francine Snyder

9:30am MDT

(Electronic Media) Lighting Round - Emulating Horizons (2008) by Geert Mul: the challenges of intensive graphics rendering Briargrove Meeting RoomClaudia Roeck

9:45am MDT

(Electronic Media) Lighting Round - Preserving Stephan von Huene’s electronic artworks by means of bit-stream documentation Briargrove Meeting RoomSophie Magdalena Bunz

10:30am MDT

(Electronic Media) Introducing ‘Code Resituation’: Applying the Concept of Minimal Intervention to the Conservation Treatment of Software-based Art Briargrove Meeting RoomDeena Engel • Joanna Phillips

11:00am MDT

(Electronic Media) Revealing Hidden Processes: Instrumentation and Reverse Engineering in the Conservation of Software-based Art Briargrove Meeting RoomTom Ensom

11:30am MDT

(Electronic Media) Establishing Preservation Practices for Net Art and App-Based Works Briargrove Meeting RoomCoral Salomón

1:00pm MDT

Collection Care Network Idea Fair Texas FoyerRebecca Kaczkowski • Tru Vue

2:00pm MDT

(Material Transfers & Translations) Tauba Auerbach’s Altar/Engine: a case study in reconceptualizing materiality Texas Ballroom BPeter Oleksik • Megan Randall

2:30pm MDT

(Material Transfers & Translations) Whitney Replication Committee: Transparency in the Age of Reproduction Texas Ballroom BMargo Delidow-[PA] • Clara Rojas Sebesta • Farris Wahbeh

3:30pm MDT

Break in the Exhibit Hall Texas Ballrooms E-H (Exhibit Hall) 13. (Research and Technical Studies) Sticking with it: Following up on HSC’s effort to develop a user-driven adhesives database Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Andrea KI Hall • Andrea KI Hall • Molly McGath • Dr. Patricia McGuiggan 22. (Collection Care) Nothing is Ever Simple: A Case Study in Flexible Project Management for Archives Conservation Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Alexander Bero 30. (Electronic Media) Using Open Source Software as New Media artworks restoration method and evaluate its pros and cons: A case study of New Media Art collection of National Museums in Taiwan. Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Tzu-chuan Lin

4:00pm MDT

(Long-Form Concurrent Session) Lessons from Irma and Harvey: Preparation and Response in the 2017 Hurricane Season Hunters Creek Meeting RoomKelly Ciociola • Lauren R. Hall-[PA] • Rustin Levenson-[Fellow] • Steven Pine-[PA]

4:30pm MDT

(Material Questions) An Enlightened Perspective: Balancing Artist Intent with Conservation Concerns Texas Ballroom AChristopher Mazza • Sarah Scaturro

5:00pm MDT

(Material Questions) Between subtle and silent: the conservation of Max Neuhaus' Sound Figure at the Menil Collection Texas Ballroom ABradford Epley • Sarah Thompson

5:45pm MDT

All-Attendee Reception at the MFAH - Pre Gallery Viewing MFAH

7:30pm MDT

All-Attendee Reception at the MFAH MFAHHuntington T. Block Insurance Agency • Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

7:45am MDT

AIC Member Business Meeting Texas Ballrooms E-H (Exhibit Hall)Margaret Holben Ellis

10:00am MDT

(Electronic Media) Looking Forwards and Backwards: Practical Approaches to the Stewardship of Time-Based Media Art Briargrove Meeting RoomErin Barsan • Elise Tanner

10:30am MDT

(Electronic Media) A steep learning curve: developments in the field of time-based art conservation in Australia Briargrove Meeting RoomAsti Sherring

11:00am MDT

(Electronic Media) The preservation and conservation of digital technology heritage - A case study of new media art collection of National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts Briargrove Meeting RoomYu-Hsien Chen • Dr Shin chieh Tzeng

11:30am MDT

(Electronic Media) Unsustainable digital collections Briargrove Meeting RoomJo Ana Morfin (Electronic Media) What Happened When? Creating Retroactive Iteration Reports for Time-based Media Artworks Briargrove Meeting RoomAlexandra Nichols

12:00pm MDT

(Electronic Media) Getting It On Record: Stabilization, Enhanced Imaging, and Documentation of Archival Instantaneous Audio Discs Briargrove Meeting RoomDave Walker

2:00pm MDT

(Sustainability) Access to Shared Knowledge: Developing a Sustainable Workflow for Archiving Collaborative Engagement Documentation at NMAI’s Conservation Department Hunters Creek Meeting RoomDiana Gabler

2:30pm MDT

(Sustainability) A collaborative web platform for designing green museum storages Hunters Creek Meeting RoomEstelle De Bruyn

3:00pm MDT

(Sustainability) Digital Collections Storage: Surveying The Landscape Hunters Creek Meeting Room