#artconservation — Public Fediverse posts

This week we lost avantgarde filmmaker Ken Jacobs, whose flickering experiments with film and light reinforced the lesson of variable media preservation: we keep things alive by keeping them moving.

https://blog.still-water.net/ken-jacobs-and-preserving-the-immaterial

#FilmPreservation #VariableMedia #MediaArt #FilmHistory #TimeBasedMedia #ArtConservation #MuseumStudies

Our beautiful Joan Mitchell painting has been a highlight of our collection since we bought it in 1974, the year after the artist painted it. But it needs a little TLC. Rather than send it off to be conserved in a lab, we're doing that live and in public. Read more about this cool project:

https://georgiamuseum.org/gmoa_blog/joan-mitchells-close-to-undergo-public-conservation-in-georgia/

#JoanMitchell #ArtConservation

Have you seen this?
Closer to Van Eyck offers stunning high-resolution images and technical studies of the Ghent Altarpiece — a landmark in digital art history and conservation.
https://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/

#DigitalArtHistory #ArtConservation #CulturalDataScience #VanEyck

Have you seen this?
Closer to Van Eyck offers stunning high-resolution images and technical studies of the Ghent Altarpiece — a landmark in digital art history and conservation.
https://closertovaneyck.kikirpa.be/

#DigitalArtHistory #ArtConservation #CulturalDataScience #VanEyck

It's #AskAConservator day today, so feel free to ask me anything you'd like!

Ideally about conservation or working in this field, but I'll allow tangents. 😆

#conservation #conservators #ArtConservation

📢 Call for hosts: new #internships programme 📢

Icon is launching a new programme of fully-funded internships aimed at specialist skill areas considered ‘at risk’

They're seeking 3 orgs to provide opportunities covering the following #conservation practice areas:
🎻 musical instruments
📜 manuscripts

Host requirements:
🇬🇧 must be in the UK
📝 must have insurance + H&S protocols
🗓️ placements to be 3, 6 or 12 months

More info here: https://www.icon.org.uk/resource/new-internships-programme-launched.html

#ArtConservation #HeritageConservation

A quinta edição do ciclo de videoconferências “Quando a Ciência e a Tecnologia se Cruzam com as Artes e as Letras” começa a 20 de Fevereiro.

Milene Gil foi a investigadora convidada para falar sobre o projecto ALMADA (Laboratório HERCULES) e da importância e alcance prático de investigações em ciências do património.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/05ctal-01/

#Histodons #ArtConservation #Murals #ArtHistory #Heritage #AlmadaNegreiros #HeritageConservation #Paintings #ConservaçãoERestauro #Murais #Património

Alright, alright, we can't contain ourselves any longer!

Let us introduce our new podcast team members to you:

Meet Liz Hébert, one of our TWO new permanent co-hosts! 👋

Liz joins us as Emerging Professional Co-Host and she's a paintings conservator based in #Amsterdam. 🎨 🇳🇱

Liz used to host the ECPodcast for emerging professionals so may be a familiar voice!

#TheCWordPodcast #conservators #ArtConservation #ArtConservators #podcasting #conservation #paintings #conservator #TheNetherlands

Beer byproducts were popular canvas primers for Danish Golden Age artists - Enlarge / Two Russian Ships of the Line Saluting by Christoffer Wilhelm... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1941236 #massspectrometry #artconservation #danishgoldenage #heritagescience #proteomics #culture #science #physics #beer #art

Delighted that MIT has published a new paperback edition of Re-collection: Art, New Media, and Social Memory, my book with Richard Rinehart—just in time to use as a reference text in my spring #DigitalPreservation course! http://re-collection.net

#collections #archives #museums #digipres #metadata #glam #TimeBasedMedia #ArtConservation #DigitalArt #NewMedia #MITpress

X-ray analysis reveals hidden composition under iconic portrait of the Lavoisiers - Enlarge

The French 18th-century chemist Antoine Lavoisier is ... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1805565 #jacques-louisdavid #ramanspectroscopy #x-rayfluorescence #antoinelavoisier #artconservation #gaming&culture #science #art