Date:
Wednesday, July 25, 2018, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
Location:
Harvard Art Museums, 32 Quincy St., Cambridge
Kate Lewis, the Agnes Gund Chief Conservator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, will discuss the challenges of caring for time-based media art. Conservators must grapple with technical obsolescence, navigate complex hardware and software, and satisfy unusual installation demands. Lewis will focus on works by Nam June Paik, Nalini Malani, Tania Bruguera, and others.