The Electronic Media Review, Volume 2, 2013
Electronic Media Group
Papers presented at the Electronic Media Group session of the 39th AIC Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2011, and the 40th AIC Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 2012.
Jeffrey Warda, Managing Editor
Edited by Briana Feston, Jane Klinger, Sarah Norris, and Jeffrey Warda
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Papers presented at the Electronic Media Group Session,
AIC 39th Annual Meeting, May 31–June 1, 2011, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Overcoming Obsolescence: The Examination, Documentation, and Preservation of Nam June Paik’s TV Cello
LISA CONTE, CHRISTINE FROHNERT, LISA NELSON, AND JULIA SYBALSKY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Risk Assessment as a Tool in the Conservation of Software-Based Artworks
PATRICIA FALCÃO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
The Tree Decision-Making Model for the Preservation of Technological Equipment
for Time-Based Media Art: A DOCAM Research Tool Outcome
RICHARD GAGNIER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
Acquisition and Installation of Time-Based Art at The Hirshhorn Museum: Lending Electronic Media
SARA GORDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Versions, Variations, and Variability: Ethical Considerations and Conservation Options for Computer-Based Art
HANNA BARBARA HÖLLING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Developments at Tate in the Conservation of Artists’ Video as File-Based Data
PIP LAURENSON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Anatomy of the Analog: The Preservation of Frank Theys’s Video Installation
Oratorium for Prepared Video Player and Eight Monitors (1989)
EMANUEL LORRAIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Restoration of Molded Videotapes: Research on Vacuum-Freeze-Drying of Water Damaged Videotapes
AGATHE JARCZYK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Acquisition and Installation of Time-Based Art at The Hirshhorn Museum: Changing Practices
JEFF MARTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Mass Migration of Archival Video Collections: Open Source Tools for Managing Digitization Projects
DONALD MENNERICH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Collaborative Conservation: Sharing Expertise at The Goodwill Computer Museum
VIRGINIA LUEHRSEN AND KAREN L. PAVELKA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Papers presented at the Electronic Media Group Session,
AIC 40th Annual Meeting, May 8–11, 2012, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Moving Pictures: Restoring Roy Lichtenstein’s Foray Into Film
CLARE BELL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Rapid Identification of Sticky Shed Syndrome in Magnetic Tape Using ATR-FTIR and Multivariate Statistics
ERIC BREITUNG, SAMANTHA SKELTON, AND STEPHEN MORGAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Conservation in Collections of Digital Works of Art
BEN FINO-RADIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Conservation of Historic Cathode Ray Tube-Based Artworks from the 1960s
CHRISTINE FROHNERT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Geeks, Boffins, and Whiz-Kids: The Key Role of the Independent Expert in Time-Based Media Conservation
KATE JENNINGS AND TINA WEIDNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Toward an Ontology of Audio Preservation
SARAH NORRIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Acts of Non-Conservation: Developing More Effective Means of Communication and Advocacy
Through Metadata
JOSHUA M. RANGER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Fundamentals of the Cathode Ray Tube Based Display and its Maintenance and Conservation
Within Contemporary Artworks
CHI-TIEN LUI AND RAPHAELE SHIRLEY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Capture Software Study for Preservation of Analog Videotape
LAUREN SORENSEN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Fading Out: The End of 35 MM Slide Transparencies
TINA WEIDNER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Guidelines for Authors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175