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Monthly Archives: September 2007

Authenticity, Change and Loss in the Conservation of Time-Based Media Installations

12-Sep-07

Authenticity, Change and Loss in the Conservation of Time-Based Media Installations PIP LAURENSON Fig.1 Sam Taylor-Wood Killing Time 1994 Installed at Tate Britain 2003. © Sam Taylor-Wood. Courtesy Tate 2006. enlarge If ontology is to be other than a philosopher’s game, it must reflect the ‘what’s and why’s’ informing the esteem that draws us to [...]

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New Media Art and the Gallery in the Digital Age

12-Sep-07

New Media Art and the Gallery in the Digital Age CHARLIE GERE Fig.1 Susan Collins, Tate in Space 2002, commissioned for Tate Online Detail of screenshot of home page © Susan Collins 2002 The digital culture we now live in was hard to imagine twenty years ago, when the Internet was hardly used outside science [...]

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Gary Hill’s Between Cinema and a Hard Place

12-Sep-07

Developing Strategies for the Conservation of Installations Incorporating Time-based Media: Gary Hill’s Between Cinema and a Hard Place PIP LAURENSON Since the early 1990s Tate has been working to establish standards of care for the conservation of artworks which incorporate film, video and audio. In this paper I discuss the strategies we are developing and [...]

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