Electronic Media Group

Briana Feston-Brunet is the Variable Media Conservator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. She focuses primarily on the conservation of contemporary and time-based media artworks, including audio, video, film, performances, computer and software based works, and installations. Additionally, she manages the Hirshhorn's Artist Interview Program. Briana earned her MA in art conservation at New York University, with a focus in modern and contemporary art. Prior to joining the Hirshhorn, she held graduate fellowships and positions at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and Sèvres-Cité de la Céramique, in Sèvres, France. She is currently the Chair of the AIC Electronic Media Group. 

Elisse Brautigam is a Kress Fellow in Time-Based and Variable Media at the Denver Art Museum, where she previously spent her Third Year Internship. She received a M.A. in Conservation of Art and Cultural Heritage and a M.S in Conservation Science and Imaging from SUNY Buffalo State University, specializing in objects in 2024. While attending UCLA (graduating with a B.A. in Art History), she worked in the UCLA Library Conservation Department. Elisse has also held conservation positions with Fine Arts Conservation in Los Angeles, CA, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and volunteered at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Manuscript Conservation. At the Glenstone Museum in Potomac, MD, Elisse worked on their Contemporary Art and TBM pieces and most recently on a TBM private collection through Small Data Industries, based in New York. In June Elisse will begin work at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City as Assistant Project Conservator in Time-Based Media. Elisse currently serves as Assistant Program Chair for the AIC Electronic Media Group. 

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Lorena Ramirez-Lopez is a time-based media consultant at Small Data Industries. She is a graduate from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program at NYU as well as a former National Digital Stewardship Resident for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting at Howard University television station (WHUT) in Washington, DC. A native New Yorker and advocate for web archiving and international exchanges, she has worked in various institutions throughout her career including the Memory Lab Network at DC Public Library, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Museu do Arte Moderna in Rio de Janeiro, WITNESS, and much more. 

sasha is a graduate of the Institute of Fine Arts’ Conservation Center at New York University, with an MA in the History of Art and Archaeology, and an MS in the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works with a focus in time-based media. They completed their final internship year at the Museum of Modern Art and Tate in 2022. sasha’s professional experience includes photogrammetry and 3D modeling of historical artifacts, installation of media-based artworks at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, managing media exhibits at the Oakland Museum of California, overseeing all audiovisual resources at the San Francisco Art Institute, and freelance consultation, production, and installation of media-based artworks. They previously earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate in Writing at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, with additional coursework in chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley Extension. sasha embraces the long-term thinking and development of appropriate stewardship practices while negotiating ecosystems of stakeholders and values unique to each artwork. Their ongoing research examines the intersection of technical capabilities and the philosophical and ethical questions arising through the conservation process, often questioning conventional approaches in pursuit of a holistic outlook on the integrity of cultural assets. 

Felice earned her BA in Art History from UCLA and her Master’s degree from the Conservation Center of New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts (IFA). She graduated an MS in Conservation and her MA in History of Art and Archaeology, focusing on both time-based media and photograph conservation. Felice interned at the Photograph Conservation Department of The Metropolitan Museum of Art before becoming its Assistant Conservator. She is now Assistant Conservator at The Art Institute of Chicago.

Gregory Bailey graduated in 2011 from Buffalo State College with an M.A. and C.A.S. in Art Conservation with a focus on the conservation of objects. Since that time, he has been awarded a Kress Fellowship at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a Mellon Fellowship at the Walters Art Museum, where he also went on to work as Associate Conservator. He is the 2016-2017 recipient of the Booth Family Rome Prize in Historic Preservation and Conservation. From 2017 to 2019, Greg served as Objects Conservator for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Renwick Gallery. Greg returned to the Walters Art Museum in 2019 as Senior Objects Conservator. Greg is a Professional Member of the American Institute for Conservation (AIC), for which he also serves on the Board of Directors. Greg is Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Institute for Conservation (JAIC) as well as Associate Editor for Studies in Conservation. 

After graduating from Mary Washington College with a BA in art history and historic preservation, Ryan moved to DC, where he got his first job working for a small association management firm. After that he worked at a national arts advocacy organization before coming to AIC as a Membership Assistant. He is currently the Membership Manager. Ryan likes living in DC where he enjoys learning about its history, its local politics, and its public transportation system. In his spare time, he likes to cook, travel, and finish the many DIY projects he has going on in his apartment.