[MCN-L] Registration Open - Is This Permanence: Preservation of Born-digital Artists’ Archives

[Delmas-Glass, Emmanuelle]

*Apologies for cross posting*

Registration Open - Is This Permanence: Preservation of Born-digital Artists’ 
Archives

Is This Permanence: Preservation of Born-digital Artists’ 
Archives

Registration is open!

May 11, 2018
10 am – 5 pm
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut

Register online between now and May 
8th



Please join us for a day of presentations and conversation about digital 
preservation and artists’ archives at the Yale Center for British Art in New 
Haven, CT.



The internet pioneer Vint Cerf has said, “Preservation by accident is not a 
plan.” Without a plan, will born-digital art last even one lifetime? If we do 
not develop solutions now, we risk losing not only born-digital art but 
artists’ archives as well, effectively erasing the work and memory of this 
generation and subsequent generations’ art history.



Today, an artist’s studio ephemera likely consists of old laptops and iPhones, 
professional websites and social media accounts, as well as traditional analog 
materials. Artists’ archives are increasingly hybrid collections, requiring 
adaptable preservation methods. This symposium will explore the challenges of 
born-digital preservation and artists’ archives, including: artists’ use of 
born-digital methods as part of their practice and as a means of documentation, 
the state of the digital preservation field for artists and those who steward 
their archives, and preservation strategies for artists, museums, collectors, 
archives, and libraries.



The keynote speaker is Jon Ippolito, Professor of New Media and Director of the 
Digital Curation graduate program, University of Maine.



In addition to Ippolito’s talk, this program will feature presentations by 
Clifford Allen and Deb Verhoff, Watermill Center, Robert Wilson Archives and 
New York University; John Bell, Dartmouth College; Deena Engel and Glenn 
Wharton, New York University; Sara England and Mikhel Proulx, Concordia 
University; Josh Franco and Hilary Price, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian 
Institution; Laura Molloy, University of Oxford; Colin Post, University of 
North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and Farris Wahbeh, Whitney Museum of American Art.

This event is co-sponsored by the Yale Center for British Art, the Robert B. 
Haas Family Arts Library, Yale University Library Digital Preservation 
Services, Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/ NA), and the National 
Digital Stewardship Residency for Art Information (NDSR Art).


If you have questions about the event, please contact Cate Peebles, National 
Digital Stewardship Resident for Art Information: 
catherine.peeb...@yale.edu

Best,
Emmanuelle

Emmanuelle Delmas-Glass
Collections Data Manager
Yale Center for British Art
1080 Chapel Street, PO Box 208280
New Haven, CT  06520-8280
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[MCN-L] looking for MCN conference proposal co-conspirators!

[Carissa Dougherty]

Hello!

(I've also posted this on the Slack channel, so apologies for duplication!)

I wasn't able to attend MCN last year, but I'm looking to propose a session
(or two?) this year. Because I've shifted from art museum to tree museum,
I'm a bit out of the loop and would really love come co-conspirators for
session planning!

Here are the two concepts that I've been thinking most about:

*Museum staff are humans, too*: Technology / innovation / content projects
that have focused on museum STAFF as an audience. Several of the
initiatives I've led in the last few years (Learning Management System,
Digital Asset Management System, Intranet) really depended on input,
buy-in, and (ideally) excitement from staff as both users and promoters of
these projects. I've definitely had some successes and hard lessons learned
along the way; I wonder if anyone else would like to provide additional
perspectives.

*Where do I belong?:* challenges and success stories of people who have "in
between" positions like mine, whose roles serve to break down silos and
foster digital literacy across the institution. I don't have "digital" or
"technology" in my title, nor do I report to IT. But people come to me with
technology projects because they know that I'll bring in the right people
and evaluate technology from a more neutral perspective. I can't be the
only one who's in a role like this (can I?)... would love to hear more
about how other people have taken on liaison / linchpin roles like this.

Thanks in advance... looking forward to collaborating!

Carissa Dougherty

Head of Knowledge Management

The Morton Arboretum  |  4100 Illinois Route 53  |  Lisle, Illinois 60532
T  *630-725-2136* |*cdoughe...@mortonarb.org *
|  mortonarb.org
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