Workshop 3

Does your institution have a collection of avant-garde, experimental, or artists’ films? Are you uncertain where to get started in caring for such a collection? This five-day hands-on workshop will focus on the stewardship of both analog and digital artists’ films within collecting institutions such as museums, archives, libraries, and distributors. Participants will gain the knowledge and tools necessary to properly acquire, store, migrate, exhibit, and generally maintain these films, which have unique requirements for their care and display. 

Caring for artists’ films is broadly acknowledged as a pan-institutional endeavor requiring direct involvement from curatorial, conservation, audio visual, IT, registrar and collection care staff. This will be reflected throughout the workshop curriculum as well as in the application itself which requires pairs of colleagues from the applying institution.

This workshop is open to staff from museums, archives, libraries, distributors, and others who care for film collections that include artists’ films. Applicants should be permanent members of staff at their institution (full- or part-time). This could be a conservator, audio visual technician, collection specialist or manager etc.  Priority will be given to those with significant film collection needs, a critical need for staff training and demonstrable institutional desire to take action. 

Caring for Artists’ Films

 June 10-14, 2019 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York

ATTENDEES

Anastasios Adamopoulos

Head, Preservation Department
Greek Film Archives > Film Museum
Athens, Greece

Steve Cossman

Founder / Director
Mono No Aware
New York, New York, USA

Stéphanie Côté

Archivist - Cinema, Television, and New Media Collections
Cinémathèque québécoise
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Kelly Haydon
Audiovisual Archivist
Division of Libraries, Special Collections, New York University
New York, New York, USA

Leandro Listorti
Film archivist
Museo del Cine Pablo Ducrós Hicken / Buenos Aires Film Museum
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Markus Maicher
Filmmaker & Board Member
filmkoop wien
Vienna, Austria

SPEAKERS

Steve Cossman, Founder / Executive Director, Mono No Aware

Caroline Gil, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Media Conservation, The Museum of Modern Art

John Klacsmann, Archivist, Anthology Film Archives

Peter Oleksik, Associate Media Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art

Bill Brand, BB Optics, Film Preservationist, Artist and Adjunct Faculty of Moving Image and Archiving Program, New York University

John Klacsmann, Archivist, Anthology Film Archives

Flaminia Fortunato, Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Media Conservation, The Museum of Modern Art

Sophie Cavoulacos, Assistant Curator in the Department of Film, The Museum of Modern Art

Pamela Vizner, Consultant, AVP

Bill Brand, BB Optics, Film Preservationist, Artist and Adjunct Faculty of Moving Image and Archiving Program, New York University

Simon Lund, Director of Technical Operations, Cineric Inc.

Katie Trainor, Film Collections Manager, The Museum of Modern Art

Amy Brost, Associate Media Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art

Peggy Ahwesh, American experimental filmmaker and video artist, Professor of Film and Electronic Arts, Bard College

Andrew Lampert, curator, archivist and artist, Adjunct Instructor, The Cooper Union and CUNY City College, co-founder, Chen & Lampert

Sarah Halpern, artist and independent projectionist

Fred Hatt, Projectionist, The Museum of Modern Art

Sarah Halpern, Independent Projectionist

Travis Kray, AV Technician, The Museum of Modern Art

Peter Oleksik, Associate Media Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art

Erica Papernik-Shimizu, Associate Curator, The Museum of Modern Art

Katie Trainor, Film Collections Manager, The Museum of Modern Art

Thelma Ross, Cataloguer, The Museum of Modern Art

Mack Cole-Edelsack, Senior Design Manager, The Museum of Modern Art

Travis Kray, AV Technician, The Museum of Modern Art

Michelle Kuo, The Marlene Hess Curator of Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art

Peter Oleksik, Associate Media Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art

Erica Papernik-Shimizu, Associate Curator The Museum of Modern Art

Katie Trainor, Film Collections Manager, The Museum of Modern Art

John Klacsmann, archivist, The Anthology Film Archive