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AIC 2023 Annual Meeting -- Call for Submissions deadline Fri, Sept 23

  • 1.  AIC 2023 Annual Meeting -- Call for Submissions deadline Fri, Sept 23

    Posted 09-19-2022 17:54
    Hi IWG, 

    Just a reminder that abstracts for the 2023 AIC Annual Meeting are due Friday, September 23!  See info below for more info about the call for submissions. 

    Thanks!
    Keats 

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    Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2023 AIC Annual Meeting! The IWG will be chairing a session on "    Conservation Imaging in the Age of Change." Abstracts are due September 23.

    The 2023 AIC Annual Meeting will be May 16-20, 2023, in Jacksonville, FL focusing on the theme "Conservation in the Age of Environmental, Social, and Economic Climate Change." The AIC website includes more information about the conference and theme.  

    Below is more information about the call for submissions for the imaging session:

    As the conference theme elicits, we are facing changes on many fronts (environmental, social, economic), and imaging does not sit in isolation from these. We hope that this session will stimulate dialogue on how conservation imaging can acknowledge and address these changes.

    • Environmental – Imaging relies on digital technologies that have environmental impacts that are not always discussed or addressed. We invite presentations that discuss or bring awareness to resource and energy consumption and environmental costs in digital technologies or digitization. Another perspective would be the use of imaging to address preservation needs and documenting disappearing heritage including the ways we can achieve this and how it inevitably falls short.
    • Social – The decisions that we make about imaging and working with objects and sites are influenced by our identities and cultures and the history and culture around photography and museums. We invite presentations that present social considerations and impacts that might include but are not limited to decolonization and conservation documentation; reflecting on power, authority, privilege, truth and/or reliability as they relate to imaging; and community and stakeholder engagement.
    • Economic – We invite presentations that discuss low-cost, easy to access imaging tools, their advantages and limitations, and environmental and social impact. The format for this session would include both standard paper presentations as well as a panel discussion.


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    E. Keats Webb
    Imaging Scientist
    Museum Conservation Institute
    Smithsonian Institution
    Suitland, MD
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