In partnership with the Queen’s University Archives, Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre is pleased to invite you to participate in the following free workshop
Keeping the Art Alive:
Practical Strategies for Maintaining Time-based Media
Presented by Artist/Archivist Mona Jimenez
Date: Wednesday February 6th 2008
Location: Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, 21A Queen St.
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Mona Jimenez, advocate for the preservation of independent media, will present a workshop focused on techniques of media preservation. Jimenez will present workshop participants with strategies for caring for three broad categories of time-based work: digital video, multimedia and installation. In addition, the workshop will cover ideas for documentation, basic care and handling, and practices that involve galleries/museums/collectors.
While a visitor at Queen’s University, Jimenez will give the Brockington Lecture on Thursday February 7th. This lecture will address the challenges facing museums of modern and contemporary art regarding preserving works that feature technological components.
Biography:
Mona Jimenez is a visual artist who has been an advocate and organizer for the preservation of independent media since the early 1990’s. She is currently working as an Associate Professor at New York University. As faculty in NYU’s new graduate program, her primary focus is on film, video and digital media preservation, collection management, and the history and theory of old and new media. Jimenez has also done extensive work as a consultant specializing in training and consulting for groups and individuals, such as public television stations, community media stations, museums, libraries, artist spaces, and web-based groups, engaged with preservation projects of electronic media. She has worked as a program developer for TechArchelolgy: Installation Art Preservation (2000), Looking Back/Looking Forward symposium on media remastering (2002), the Video History Project website (1999), and the conference Video History: Making Connections (1998). She is a member of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and a founding member of AMIA Committee on US Moving Image Preservation Plans.
Contact:
Heather Home, Public Services Archivist
Queen's University Archives, (613) 533-6000 x74456
or Jessica Rovito, Administrative Director / Michael Davidge, Artistic Director
Modern Fuel Artist Run Centre, Kingston, ON, 613 548-4883