AIC's 41st Annual Meeting

Teamwork and communication between curators, technicians, registrars, and conservators prove to be invaluable in the preservation of media art installations. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has a long history of fruitful, interdepartmental collaborations and with the upcoming expansion of the museum, scheduled to open in 2016, working spaces have been conceived and designed to reflect and advance this tradition. This talk explains this series of adjacent and shared spaces — a black box workshop, a time-based media conservation studio and an exhibitions technical workroom — where time-based media conservators and the exhibitions technical team will prepare, stage, document, repair and thus preserve the museum's rapidly growing media arts collection.