Collaborations in Conserving Time-Based ArtMarch 18th, 2010

Modeling the Team Approach while Caring for Time-Based

Media at the IMA

Collaboration is Different from Leading and Sharing

W. Axle Rose (ca. 1989)

Original Members of Guns N’ Roses

•Axl Rose •Dizzy Reed •Tommy Stinson•Chris Pitman •Richard Fortus •Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal•Frank Ferrer •DJ Ashba•Ole Beich •Rob Gardner •Tracii Guns •Steven Adler

•Izzy Stradlin •Gilby Clarke •Matt Sorum •Slash•Duff McKagan•Josh Freese•Paul Tobias•Buckethead •Robin Finck •Bryan Mantia

Complete list ofGuns N’ Roses members

•Axl Rose•Duff McKagan •Slash

•Steven Adler •Izzy Stradlin

Richard McCoyAssociate Conservator of Objects & Variable Art

IMA? What’s

the IMA?

Main Building•Encyclopedic Collection of Art. •More than 50,000 artworks in the collection. •National & international exhibitions

Garden and Grounds

Oldfields-Lilly House

•National Historic Landmark•26 Acre Estate•Interpreted as the 1930s home of J.K. Lilly

The Miller House and Gardens

Designed by Eero SaarinenInteriors by Alexander GirardLandscape design by Daniel Urban Kiley

Bad Collaborator

Excellent Collaborators

Expansion of Contemporary Art Department at the IMA

2003 = 1 Curators of Contemporary Art

2009 = 3 Curators of Contemporary Art & Lots of Projects

Variable Art is a term that defines art that possesses changing observable state. Such artwork can involve variable presentation formats, time-based fluctuations or other types of variables, for example:

•Installation or site-sensitive artwork with artists’ instructions for implementation;

•Electronic or media-based art with updating platforms and devices;

•Conceptual art, ephemeral art, or art made with unsustainable materials.

Prioritization System

HighIMA Commissioned Artworks

IMA AcquisitionsIMA Owned Artworks

MediumNon-IMA Artworks that IMA may acquire.

Non-IMA Artworks that are relevant to IMA's collection.Low

Non-IMA Artworks that the IMA is not interested in acquiring.

We didn’t re-invent the wheel. We’re using the ones that exist.

We have good collaboration tools.

Nam June Paik, "Who's your Tree," 1996. Installation view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1997. Now and Future Purchase Fund and Robert and Ina

Mohlman Art Fund. The Estate of Nam June Paik.

Nam June Paik, "Who's your Tree," 1996. Installation view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, 2009. Now and Future Purchase Fund and Robert and Ina

Mohlman Art Fund. The Estate of Nam June Paik.

1996 Signed document by Nam June Paik from the IMA's Historical Files

So, can I put these monitors in now?

What if we have to re-work the aluminum frame to accommodate new monitors?

Omar Fast: The Casting

Joshua Mosley: American International

TEA MÄKIPÄÄ: EDEN II

ALFRED JAAR: Park of the Laments

Robert Irwin: Light and Space III

Type A Working with IMA on Team Building

Trust Falls as Training?

Type A, "Team Building (Align)", 2009, conceptual renderings. Courtesy of the artists and Nicholas Fraser/Type A Studios.

Maya Lin: ABOVE AND BELOW

Thanks to everyone at the IMA

Are our issues and challenges any different than yours? (CRTs dissapearing, changing platforms, storage, etc)Does our prioritization system match yours? What do our titles say about what we do? New MediaTime-Based MediaModern & Contemporary ArtVariable Media ArtVariable Art

Questions for Me? Questions for you!