Symposium: Towards a flexible future

Managing time-based media artworks in collections

Today digital technologies are so embedded in our daily lives that the rapid rate in which they develop often goes unnoticed. What does such intense and ongoing technological change mean for artists and art museums, where the notions of permanence and perpetuity have long reigned supreme?

Featuring presentations from conservators and curators from the Art Gallery of New South Wales and Tate, London, as well as Australian artists, this symposium sets out to explore what it means to collect, display, preserve and make time-based media artworks. This symposium brings attention to the significant risk of loss, of both artworks and art history, that the sector faces without imminent institutional change. It argues for the importance of media arts and its future in Australian collections, examining how museums can best support contemporary art practice in all its forms.

Speakers

Carolyn Murphy, head of conservation, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Justin Paton, head of international art, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Anneke Jaspers, curator of contemporary art, Art Gallery of New South Wales
Louise Lawson, conservation manager, Tate, London
Bernice Murphy, curator of contemporary art, Art Galery of New South Wales (1979-1983) and curator, chief curator, then director of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (1984–1998)
Stephen Jones, artist, technician and author
Daniel von Sturmer, artist
Agatha Gothe Snape, artist

Date: Tuesday, 4 June, 2019 8.30am

Venue: Art Gallery of New South Wales

Bookings and Further Information: https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/calendar/towards-flexible-future/