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 From: achoudhury at conservation-us.org
Sent: 1/24/2012 11:46:32 A.M. Eastern  Standard Time
Subj: Save the Date: FAIC Announces "TechFocus II: Caring for  Film and 
Slide Art," April 27-28, 2012



   
FOR  IMMEDIATE RELEASE 
January  24, 2012 
Contact:  Abigail Choudhury 
Phone: (202) 661-8070 
Email: _achoudhury at conservation-us.org_ 
(mailto:achoudhury at conservation-us.org)    

Save the Date: FAIC Announces   
“TechFocus II: Caring for Film and  Slide Art,” April 27-28, 2012 
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Foundation  of the American Institute for 
Conservation (FAIC), the Smithsonian  Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture 
Garden, and the Electronic  Media Group of the American Institute for 
Conservation advise you to  save the date for an important new two-day workshop: “
TechFocus II:  Caring for Film and Slide Art” taking place April 27-28,  2012. 
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 earlier works by important  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 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 being discussed. 
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 that was 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. 
The  workshop is being made possible by the generous support of the  
Smithsonian Institution’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, FAIC,  and the 
Smithsonian Institution Archives. TechFocus II Planning  Committee: Jeff 
Martin, Christine Frohnert, Joanna Phillips, Eric  Pourchot with Susan Lake, 
Sarah Stauderman, and Gwynne  Ryan 
Full  program, fee details and registration will be made available on the 
AIC  website soon:  _www.conservation-us.org/courses_ 
(mip://08a56ea0/www.conservation-us.org/courses)  
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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. 
 
Abigail  Choudhury 
_achoudhury at conservation-us.org_ (mailto:achoudhury at conservation-us.org)  
Development and  Education Associate 
 
Foundation of  the American Institute for Conservaton of Historic & 
Artistic  Works
 
1156 15th  Street, NW
 
Suite  320
 
Washington, DC  20005
 
t (202)  661-8070
 
f (202)  452-9328


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