April 21, 2017 and April 20, 2018
ARTIST ARCHIVES INITIATIVE SYMPOSIUM – APRIL 20, 2018:
MARVIN J. TAYLOR welcomes the audience and addresses the importance of the Artist Archive Initiative. Filmed at Fales Library. (2018)
GLENN WHARTON introduces the Artist Archives Initiative and its progress over the past two years. Filmed at Fales Library. (2018)
MIRA FRIEDLAENDER, Director of the Bilge Friedlaender Estate, “Processing the Artist’s Estate as a Creative Act.” Artist Mira Friedlaender discusses her technical and creative work to process her mother’s studio, artworks, and archive. Filmed at the Fales Library. (2018)
FRANCESCA ESMAY, Conservator at the Guggenheim Museum & JEFFREY WEISS, Independent Curator and Critic, present “Developing Artist Information Resources for the Panza Collection at the Guggenheim Museum.” They discuss discuss the logistical and creative challenges they encountered in creating artist information resources for the Panza Collection at the Guggenheim Museum. Filmed at the Fales Library. (2018)
GLENN WHARTON, MIRA FRIEDLAENDER, FRANCESCA ESMAY AND JEFFREY WEISS participate in the “First Panel Discussion” on methodologies and obstacles of establishing artist archives. Filmed at the Fales Library. (2018)
JOANNA PHILLIPS, Senior Conservator of Time- Based Media Conservation at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, “Museum Mechanisms of Capturing Artist-Embodied Knowledge to Support the Collection of Variable Contemporary Art.” Ms. Phillips describes museum mechanisms for capturing artist embodied knowledge, as well as the significance of installation instructions and variability in contemporary art. Filmed at the Fales Library. (2018)
ANN BUTLER, Director of the Library & Archives at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, “Adjacencies: Managing Artists’ Records Within Curatorial Files” on the importance of adjacencies in sustaining curatorial artist records. Filmed at the Fales Library. (2018)
DEENA ENGEL, Co-Director of the Artist Archives Initiative & BRANDON ENG, Research Associate for the Artist Archives Initiative’s Joan Jonas Knowledge Base,“The Joan Jonas Knowledge Base Project.” They discuss the significance of the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base, the research procedure, and the struggle to comprehensively convey the variability and layering of the works on a digital database. Filmed at the Fales Library.(2018)
Second Panel Participants: DEENA ENGEL, BRANDON ENG, ANN BUTLER, & JOANNA PHILLIPS participate in the “Second Panel Discussion”. They talk about questions of public versus private, the link between archives and computer science, and other vital aspects of archives. Filmed at the Fales Library. (2018)
Click (here) to see the 2018 program.
ARTIST ARCHIVES INITIATIVE SYMPOSIUM – APRIL 21, 2017:
