FELLOWSHIPS
Current practicing media conservators emerge from a variety of different academic paths including conservation, moving image, archives, and computer science. This project hosted several fellowships, where fellows from different training backgrounds overlapped during their time at MoMA and also had the opportunity to complete part of their fellowship at a partner institution. The Media Conservation Initiative fellowship program provided training and research opportunities to postgraduate students and helped to fulfill an immediate training need within the field. Fellows had an opportunity to work with MoMA's ever-growing collection of time-based media art while providing much-needed internal support in media conservation.
Amy Brost
Amy holds an M.A. in the History of Art and Archaeology and an M.S. in Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works from the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. She completed graduate internships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, working with the variable media collection in the Department of Photographs, and in time-based media art conservation at MoMA and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. After serving as an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Media Conservation at MoMA, she joined the staff as Assistant Media Conservator.
Flaminia Fortunato
Flaminia received an M.A. in Conservation-Restoration of Modern Materials and Media from the Bern University of the Arts, Switzerland. She completed a media conservation residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb (Croatia) as well as graduate internships at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Washington, D.C.) and at Rava&c srl (Turin, Italy). She was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Media Conservation at MoMA and completed her fellowship at the Brooklyn Museum.
Caroline Gil
Caroline holds an M.A. from New York University's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. Additionally, she received an M.A. in Cinematography from the University of Barcelona (ESCAC). She has worked at the Wildlife Conservation Society, New Art Trust, Smithsonian Institute's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Filmoteca de Catalunya, and with media artists' personal collections. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Media Conservation at MoMA and completed her fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lia Kramer
Lia holds an M.A. in the History of Art and Archaeology and an M.S. in Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works from the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and a B.F.A. in Drawing and Painting from Georgia State University. She has previously worked with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bek & Frohnert, and Tate. She was an Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Media Conservation at MoMA and continued her fellowship at the Brooklyn Museum.