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Parallel session
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Title
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Crossovers Between Practice and Theory
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Type
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presentations & discussion
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Date, time
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Friday 11th June, 10:00-12:00
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Organisation
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Renée van de Vall (coordinator), Deborah Cherry, Tatja Scholte, Vivian van Saaze, IJsbrand Hummelen, Hanna Hölling, Sanneke Stigter.
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Speakers
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Alison Bracker, Bracker Fiske Consultants
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Renée van de Vall, Maastricht University
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Moderator
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Hans Dieter Huber, Staatliche Academie der Bildende Kunsten, Stuttgart
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Respondents
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Iris Kapelouzou, PhD student, Royal College of Art / V&A, London
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Ann French, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
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Description
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What can academic research contribute to the field of contemporary art conservation? This session aims to explore and encourage fruitful crossovers between academic research (in particular qualitative research in the humanities and the social sciences) and practitioners in the field of contemporary art conservation. Both speakers will discuss challenges and results of collaborations between theory and practice by presenting current research after which there will be ample time to open up the discussion. The session is open to practitioners and researchers.
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Biography
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Dr. Alison Bracker received her PhD in the History of Art from the
University of Leeds, and manages the Events & Lectures public programme at
the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Together with Alison Richmond, she
co-edited Conservation: Principles, Dilemmas, and Uncomfortable Truths
(Elsevier, 2009), a book presenting multi-perspective critical analyses of
the principles that guide the conservation of works of art and design,
archaeological artefacts, buildings, monuments, and heritage sites on behalf
of society. As co-founder of Bracker Fiske Consultants with Dr. Tina Fiske,
Dr. Bracker provides essential documentation and decision-making counsel on
the presentation and maintenance of unconventional or impermanent works of
contemporary art for artists, collectors, and institutions. She lectures and
publishes widely on the theoretical and practical issues arising from the
conservation of non-traditional and ephemeral materials in contemporary art.
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Biography
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Renée van de Vall works as an extraordinary professor in Art & Media at the Faculty of Art and Social Sciences of Maastricht University. She is director of studies of the MA Media Culture. She has published widely on philosophical aesthetics, the phenomenology of contemporary visual art and spectatorship and the intersections between phenomenology and Actor-Network-Theory. She is programme leader of the NWO-funded projects Transformations in perception and participation: Digital games (UM and UvA) and New strategies in the conservation of contemporary art (UM, UvA and ICN).
Recent publications:
- At the Edges of Vision. A Phenomenological Aesthetics of Contemporary Spectatorship Aldershot: Ashgate. 2008
- A Penny For Your Thoughts. Brain-scans and the Mediation of Subjective Embodiment. In R. van de Vall & R. Zwijnenberg (eds) The Body Within: Art, Medicine and Visualisation Leiden: Brill. 2009
- Towards a Theory and Ethics for the Conservation of Contemporary Art. In Art d’aujourd’hui – patrimoine de demain. Conservation et restauration des oeuvres contemporaines. 13es journées d’études de la SFIIC. Paris: Institut national du patrimoine 24-26 juin 2009 pp.51-56
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Hans Dieter Huber (1953) lives in Stuttgart. Studied painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and art history, philosophy and psychology in Heidelberg. 1986 PhD in art history. 1994 habilitation. 1997-1999 professor for history of art at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig; since October 1999 professor for contemporary art history, aesthetics and art theory at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. From 2000 - 2004 project manager of Visual competence in the age of new media within the framework of the program promoted by the Bund-Laender-Commission Cultural education in the age of new media. From 2001 to 2003 scientific advisor of the European project 404 Object Not Found. What remains of media art? Questions of production, presentation and preservation of media art. Since 2003 board member of the Center for Interdisciplinary Image Research, Magdeburg. Since 2006 Head of the Study Program "Conservation of New Media and Digital Information" at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart. In 2007 he was a Senior Fellow at the International Cultural Research Center in Vienna. From 2006 to 2009 he was an associated professor at the graduate school “image, body, medium" at the Hochshcule für gestaltung Karlsruhe. Since 2009 member of the enlarged board of the Society for Interdisciplinary Image Sciences. Amongst his most important publications are: System und Wirkung. Interpretation und Bedeutung zeitgenoessischer Kunst, 1989; Dan Graham. Interviews. 1997; Kunst des Ausstellens, 2002; Bild Medien Wissen, 2002; Bild, Beobachter, Milieu. Entwurf einer allgemeinen Bildwissenschaft, 2004; Paolo Veronese. Kunst als soziales System, 2005; Kunst als soziale Konstruktion 2007, Der Zugang zum Schönen. Bilder in der Erlebnisgesellschaft , 2010 (in preparation).
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