Mark, there are two papers on this subject online for the upcoming 2008 Museums and the Web conference. See
New Media Art in Museum Collections: A Report from the DOCAM Cataloguing and Conservation Committees http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/gagnier/gagnier.html and Ethnographic Methods and New Media Preservation http://www.archimuse.com/mw2008/papers/adamczyk/adamczyk.html There are others from the past too -- you can search the site or the bibliography. you'll also want to look at the work of Richard Rinehart (Berkeley) and John Ippolito (Gugggenheim), and the digital preservation literature, where this topic has been discussed. The Registrars Committee of AAM has also touched on this issue in the past (particularly dealing with the documentation of transitory performances, and the question of authenticity in re-creation). Peter Samis has some great footage about site-specific works at SFMOMA too, that talk about the artists intent, and the process of team-based creation. good luck. jennifer At 10:10 AM -0700 3/25/08, mark schlemmer wrote: >Fellow Listservers, > >As part of my graduate thesis I am exploring the >registration of installation art, especially in >reference to work with new media content (video, >digital/computational components, etc.) My major >concern is how to document the artist's intent so that >subsequent re-installations remain true to their >original ideas even when certain physical and spatial >variables change. > >To that end, I was wondering if any of you would be >willing to share anecdotes about how your museum has >dealt with the registration of new media installation >art. Do you use written artist questionnaires to >document the artist's intent? Interviews? On-site, >video-taped walk-throughs? etc. > >Thanks in advance and please feel free to forward this >on to colleagues. > >Mark Schlemmer > >mbschlemmer at yahoo.com > >MA Candidate in Museum Professions >Registration and Collections Management, May 2008 >Seton Hall University > >Organizer RC-AAM "Emerging Voices Forum" at the >Marketplace of Ideas, 2008 AAM Annual Meeting, > > > > > > >____________________________________________________________________________________ >Looking for last minute shopping deals? >Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. >http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping >_______________________________________________ >You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum >Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > >To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > >To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: >http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l -- __________ J. Trant jtrant at archimuse.com Partner & Principal Consultant phone: +1 416 691 2516 Archives & Museum Informatics fax: +1 416 352 6025 158 Lee Ave, Toronto Ontario M4E 2P3 Canada http://www.archimuse.com __________
