Hi IWG,
Next week is the AIC Annual Meeting, so we look forward to seeing some of you in Salt Lake City!
The IWG is hosting an imaging session as part of the concurrent general session on Thursday, May 23 from 2-5pm MDT, and we are very much looking forward to those presentations!
Imaging Encounters with the Surprising & Unexpected
- 2:00 – 2:30pm – "Surprising Surfaces: Micro RTI for Investigating Cold-Worked Glass" Jessica Walthew
- 2:30 – 3:00pm – "Curious Damage Cells for Surprising Solutions: Catering the Engineering Curious in the Conservation, Animation, and Preservation of Movable and Pop-Up Books" Katie Smith
- 3:00 – 3:30pm – "Technical Analysis of Inks Used for Scientific Annotations on the Harvard Astronomical Photographic Glass Plate Collection" Elena Bulat and Thom Burns
- 4:00 – 4:20pm – "Below the Surface of Braque's 'Pitcher, Candlestick, and Black Fish'" Desirae Dijkema
- 4:20 – 4:40pm – "Exploring Variations in Green Pigment Degradation in Early Printed and Hand-Colored Works on Paper" Yun Liu
- 4:40 – 5:00pm – "Identifying Multispectral Imaging Wavelengths to Create 'Recipes' for Analysis of Non-Visible Information on Parchment and Thermal Paper" Isabell Moyer
Take a look at the session schedule linked below for abstracts and the full list of co-authors for these presentations.
· Session schedule: https://aic52ndannualmeeting2024.sched.com/type/General+Session/Concurrent%3A+Imaging+Encounters+with+the+Surprising+%26+Unexpected
We are planning to do an informal IWG gathering following the imaging session on Thursday, May 23. Send me an email (webbekeats@si.edu) if you will be in Salt Lake City for the meeting and would be interested in additional details for the informal gathering.
Best,
Keats
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E. Keats Webb
Imaging Scientist
Museum Conservation Institute
Smithsonian Institution
Suitland, MD
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