Panel - 21st Century Custodianship: Collecting Media Art
21st Century Custodianship: Collecting Media Art A
Panel Discussion Adam Art Gallery
Wednesday 20 March,
6pm
21st Century Custodianship:
Collecting Media Art
Join our
panel for a discussion of the unique challenges to
institutional art collections posed by the acquisition of
media art, considered from the perspective of exhibition,
collection and conservation
practices.
Philip
Dadson
Dadson is a pioneer of time-based
practice, and founded the Department of Intermedia and Time
Based Arts at the Elam School of Fine Arts in 1986. Videos
from his Polar Projects series (2003-2005) are
included in the exhibition 21st-Century
Collecting.
Lissa
Mitchell
Mitchell was recently Collection
Manager of Photography and New Media at Te Papa Tongarewa.
An artist who has worked with celluloid and direct film, she
has held conservator positions relating to photography and
video at the New Zealand Film Archive and the National Library of New
Zealand.
Mark Williams
Williams is
founding Director of CIRCUIT Artist Film and Video Aotearoa
New Zealand. He has held positions at the New Zealand Film
Archive and LUX Artist’s Moving Image, London, and is
co-curator of the video exhibition Moving on Asia:
Towards a New Art Network 2004-2013, currently on view
at City Gallery Wellington.
This event is presented in conjunction with the Adam Art Gallery’s current exhibition, 21st-Century Collecting: Recent Acquisitions from the VUW Art Collection, on view until 21 April 2013.
Feel free to forward this email to any who may be interested in this event. For a complete list of upcoming events in our Public Programme, visit the Adam Art Gallery’s website.
ENDS