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 From: achoudhury at conservation-us.org
To: cahawks at aol.com
Sent: 2/22/2012  1:02:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
Subj: FAIC Announces Open Registration  for "TechFocus II: Caring for Film 
and Slide Art," April 27-28, 2012



   
FOR  IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
February  22, 2012 
Contact:  Abigail Choudhury 
Phone: (202) 661-8070 
Email: _achoudhury at conservation-us.org_ 
(mailto:achoudhury at conservation-us.org)    

FAIC Announces Open Registration  for 
“TechFocus II: Caring for Film and  Slide Art,” April 27-28, 2012 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Electronic  Media Group of the American Institute 
for Conservation and the  Foundation of the American Institute for 
Conservation (FAIC) are pleased  to announce an important new two-day workshop: “
TechFocus II: Caring for  Film and Slide Art,” taking place April 27-28, 2012 in 
Washington,  D.C.. 
Projected  motion picture film and slides are in a state of crisis. Far 
more  quickly than anyone could have anticipated, these technologies will soon  
reach obsolescence. Options for duplication and preservation are  narrowing 
rapidly. Our collective familiarity and technical  understanding of this 
material is fading. Yet artists continue to create  vital works using film and 
slides, and older works by significant  artists are being shown in museums 
with increasing  frequency. 
TechFocus  II is designed to educate conservators, curators and other art  
professionals about the technology of film and slide-based artworks, and  to 
recommend best practices for their acquisition, preservation and  display. 
As part of this instruction, the workshop includes a unique  “School of 
Seeing”: actual films and slides are projected as examples of  different 
production processes, so that participants can gain an  accurate understanding of 
the principles under consideration.   Moreover, this workshop will provide a 
forum for international  professionals to gather and debate strategies for 
collective action in  the face of disappearing film stocks, obsolete 
equipment, and declining  expertise. 
The  TechFocus workshop series is being organized by the AIC Electronic 
Media  Group to provide detailed technical education in the preservation of  
media art. Launched on the 10th anniversary of the groundbreaking  
TechArcheology symposium, held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art  in 2000, 
TechFocus offers in-depth instruction in a broad range of  media. Each workshop, 
hosted by a different institution, is dedicated to  one specific media-art 
technology. A systematic lecture program,  delivered by international 
experts, introduces workshop participants to  the technology behind these 
artworks, and offers real-world guidelines  for their preservation. 
TechFocus  II Planning Committee: Jeff Martin, Christine Frohnert, Joanna 
Phillips,  Eric Pourchot with Susan Lake, Sarah Stauderman, and Gwynne Ryan.  
 
Full  program, fee details, preliminary schedule and  registration are 
available on the AIC website:  _www.conservation-us.org/techfocus2_ 
(http://www.conservation-us.org/techfocus2)  
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About  FAIC 
FAIC, the Foundation of  the American Institute for Conservation of 
Historic & Artistic  Works, supports conservation education, research, and outreach 
 activities that increase understanding of our global cultural  heritage. 


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