Lecture: Preserving New Media and the Role of the Art Museum, Feb. 16

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Lecture: Preserving New Media and the Role of the Art Museum, Feb. 16

Preserving New Media and the Role of the Art Museum
Sunday, February 16 at 3:00 p.m.

This Sunday, Crystal Sanchez, guest curator of the Asheville Art Museum’s Robert and Ingrid Wiegand: An Electronic Medium exhibition, will discuss some of the best practices and major challenges in preserving and providing access to audiovisual collections, with a focus on fine artworks that are dependent on technology. With the growth of media art in the field of contemporary art, art museums are increasing their role in acquiring, installing, loaning and caring for media artworks. Based in film, video, audio, computer-based and digital technologies, these artworks require new practices and policies towards their conservation and preservation.

Sanchez is a media archivist and digital preservation specialist at the Smithsonian Institution.

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About Alli Marshall
Alli Marshall has lived in Asheville for more than 20 years and loves live music, visual art, fiction and friendly dogs. She is the winner of the 2016 Thomas Wolfe Fiction Prize and the author of the novel "How to Talk to Rockstars," published by Logosophia Books. Follow me @alli_marshall

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