Examining the digital future of analogue slide-based artworks at the Hamburger Kunsthalle |
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| Authors: | Barbara Sommermeyer Claartje van Haaften |
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| Institution: | 1. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germanysommermeyer@hamburger-kunsthalle.de;3. Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany |
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| Abstract: | The Hamburger Kunsthalle conservation department started a two-year funded project in 2015, which specifically covers the preservation of all ten slide-based artworks in the collection, with a total of about 1700 slides. The task at hand, to examine and conserve the slide-based artworks, is driven by the need within the profession to explore ways in which these works can continue to be displayed. This is new terrain for conservators of modern and contemporary art, whose responsibility is dedicated to a broad-ranging collection of artworks. From the viewpoint of a modern and contemporary art conservator with no training in time-based media conservation, the article describes the current conservation strategy of slide-based artworks, with case studies and their associated conservation decisions. |
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| Keywords: | Slides Analogue Duplication Digitization Artist's intent Time-based media conservation Contemporary art conservation |
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