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Networking session
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Title
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The Knowledge Tree. INCCA Central and Eastern Europe
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Date, time
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Thursday 10th June, 16:00-17:30
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Organisation
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Iwona Szmelter, professor Faculty Conservation-Restoration of Works of Art
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Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw
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Description
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This session will be devoted to a new conceptual framework for the care of contemporary and modern art and will address issues in conservation management of art collections. Its aim is to promote current knowledge and INCCA model for care of contemporary art as well as issues in “An Innovative Approach to Complex Care of Contemporary Art”(IACCCA) sub-project; a theoretical paradigm, artist participation, decision making, scientific research, legal issues, complex care of contemporary art in tangible and intangible heritage of visual art. With the general question being: What is to be preserved in contemporary art?, ten speakers will address the following subjects: Innovations based on complexity and interdisciplinarity in the care of contemporary cultural heritage; Rethinking authenticity and its influence on conservation : An innovative strategy for preserving material and intangible aspects of installation art; Implementation of theory based on the INCCA models/guidelines in the care of collections and gallery practice; Video collections: preservation, management and restoration; Acquisitions as a museum's mirror image; Caring for the potential interpretations of works of art in a foreign cultural context; Lending of contemporary artworks and the rights of their authors; Beautiful, Original, Thrilling or Functional? Contemporary Museum Wroclaw Seat: Program, Project, Conservation Issues.
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Speakers
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Iwona Szmelter, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland
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Hilkka Hiiop, Art Museum of Estonia / KUMU, Talinn, Estonia
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Monika Jadzinska, Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland
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Duska Sekulic Cikovic, Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Croatia
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Joanna Wasko, Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
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Mirta Pavic, Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU), Zagreb, Croatia
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Ela Wysocka, Polish National Film Archive
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Kinga Olesiejuk, PhD candiate, Academy of Fine Arts, Cracow, Poland
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Biography
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Iwona Szmelter is a trained conservator and a consultant of museums collections. She obtained an MA at the University of Torun and amongst others holds a scholarship at Sapienza University in Rome and at the Getty Conservation Institute. She is currently professor at the Faculty of Conservation-restoration of works of Art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw and in Poznan and visiting professor of the postgraduate museology studies, University of Warsaw. She has been active in a number of conservation science projects in Poland as well as at an international level such as the project Eureka! and COST.Iwona has been collaborating with the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage / ICN since 1996 on projects such as Modern Art: Who Cares? (1997), the INCCA founding project (1999-2002), Inside Installations (2004-2007) and PRACTICs (2009-2011). She is group coordinator for INCCA Central and Eastern Europe. A founding member of ENCORE and a member of ICOM-CC and the Polish Academy of Science.
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