Anonymous video artists have projected onto the Maine State House the mural by artist Judy Taylor originally installed to commemorate Maine’s labor history. The mural’s removal by Maine’s new governor Paul LePage has provoked outcries of censorship from artists and educators.
LACE’s archives are an invaluable site of cultural history for Los Angeles, as LACE has been a crucial participant in the city’s artistic production for over three decades, often housing artwork that is experimental in nature. This LACE Archives Internship is an opportunity to work with LACE’s unique collections, which include documentation of art exhibitions and performances held at LACE since 1978, extensive holdings of photographic and video material and records pertaining to the institution’s history.
The LACE Archives Internship will provide an interested individual with the opportunity to gain training and experience working with archival collections. In addition to providing training in widely held standards and protocol of collections management, it also offers a unique introduction to working with collections related to experimental and variable media art. The Archives Intern will: – Learn first-hand about collections-management issues and make use of an extensive database specifically designed by Franklin Furnace Archive to meet the needs of collections of conceptual and other variable media art; – Learn about ways that archival collections are made publicly accessible and work with the LACE Archives Fellow to integrate the catalogue of LACE’s holdings into searchable online databases; – Process a variety of material from LACE’s recent exhibitions and events (e.g. photographs, video, press clippings, correspondence), attending to preservation concerns and updating the archives database as needed; – Respond to research inquiries about LACE’s archive and facilitate the use of collections by LACE staff members and visiting scholars and artists; – Digitize selected items from LACE’s collections, including videos, slides and printed matter; – Work with the LACE Archives Fellow to develop online resources that will provide broad access to, and contextualization of LACE’s digitized collections, including project-specific and thematic websites; – Think creatively about how to generate broad interest in LACE’s archival collections; and – Serve as a liaison with LACE’s webmaster to facilitate the integration of documents from the archive into LACE’s website. Application instructions: Send a resume, references, and a cover letter explaining the reasons for your interest in this position to: Jennifer Flores Sternad at jennifer [AT] welcometolace [DOT] org
LACE internships require a commitment of approx. 16 hours per week for a minimum of three months. For further information, please contact Jennifer via e-mail or at (323) 957-1777 x 11. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
LACE’s archives are an invaluable site of cultural history for Los Angeles, as LACE has been a crucial participant in the city’s artistic production for over three decades, often housing artwork that is experimental in nature. This LACE Archives Internship is an opportunity to work with LACE’s unique collections, which include documentation of art exhibitions and performances held at LACE since 1978, extensive holdings of photographic and video material and records pertaining to the institution’s history.
The LACE Archives Internship will provide an interested individual with the opportunity to gain training and experience working with archival collections. In addition to providing training in widely held standards and protocol of collections management, it also offers a unique introduction to working with collections related to experimental and variable media art. The Archives Intern will: – Learn first-hand about collections-management issues and make use of an extensive database specifically designed by Franklin Furnace Archive to meet the needs of collections of conceptual and other variable media art; – Learn about ways that archival collections are made publicly accessible and work with the LACE Archives Fellow to integrate the catalogue of LACE’s holdings into searchable online databases; – Process a variety of material from LACE’s recent exhibitions and events (e.g. photographs, video, press clippings, correspondence), attending to preservation concerns and updating the archives database as needed; – Respond to research inquiries about LACE’s archive and facilitate the use of collections by LACE staff members and visiting scholars and artists; – Digitize selected items from LACE’s collections, including videos, slides and printed matter; – Work with the LACE Archives Fellow to develop online resources that will provide broad access to, and contextualization of LACE’s digitized collections, including project-specific and thematic websites; – Think creatively about how to generate broad interest in LACE’s archival collections; and – Serve as a liaison with LACE’s webmaster to facilitate the integration of documents from the archive into LACE’s website. Application instructions: Send a resume, references, and a cover letter explaining the reasons for your interest in this position to: Jennifer Flores Sternad at jennifer [AT] welcometolace [DOT] org
LACE internships require a commitment of approx. 16 hours per week for a minimum of three months. For further information, please contact Jennifer via e-mail or at (323) 957-1777 x 11. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
The first in a series of reports from Montreal’s DOCAM conference on preserving art endangered by technological or cultural obsolescence. What’s going to kill off your installation? Analog media–analog TV signals, video projectors, and even food–are probably the fastest poison.
This isn’t the first we’ve heard of this, but a very public instance: UCLA professors can no longer post videos on their educational media server. Copyright refugees can find a home at Critical Commons, a resource developed by Steve Anderson and Holly Willis from cross-town USC for media-based teaching and research. The site promotes media uploads under fair-use with scholarly examinations of each work.
Video artist Gary Hill once responded to the question of how his work should be displayed when CRTs became obsolete with the suggestion that his video should be projected on his viewers’ bodies from inside their skin.
When Hill was participating in the TechArcheology workshops a decade ago, this suggestion sounded flippant (and was perhaps meant to be). But now mainstream science has caught up with this nutty vision, and it looks like the porn industry won’t be far behind.
So what happens when your LED tattoo goes obsolete? Microsoft customers had better be diligent about downloading the latest “patches,” or they’ll end up sporting the Blue Skin of Death.