Patricia Falcao
Tate Time-Based Media Conservator
London, United Kingdom
Patricia Falcao is a Time-based Media Conservator at Tate. Her role includes the conservation of new time-based media artworks coming to the Tate Collection. Ms. Falcao is part of a team at Tate developing the processes necessary for preservation of digital artworks. During 2013/14 she researched the use of virtualisation for the preservation of software-based artworks. Ms. Falcao completed her MA at the University of the Arts in Bern with a thesis on risk assessment for software-based artworks. She continues to develop research in this field within the ambit of Pericles, a pan-European project that 'aims to address the challenge of ensuring that digital content remains accessible in an environment that is subject to continual change.”
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