Hi IWG,
Just a friendly reminder that the abstract deadline for the imaging session at the 2024 AIC Annual Meeting is September 15, 2023. We are one week away, so there is still time to pull together an abstract about your imaging encounters with the surprising and unexpected! The full call for submissions and important links are included below.
The 2024 AIC Annual Meeting will be in Salt Lake City, UT May 20-24, 2024, and the AIC IWG will be hosting a session on imaging during the concurrent general session.
We hope that you will consider submitting an abstract!
If you have any questions, please reach out to Adam Neese or myself.
Call for submissions: Imaging Encounters with the Surprising and Unexpected
Advancing digital imaging and computing capabilities mean that a range of imaging tools, techniques, and technologies are available to conservators and the conservation process. These include techniques that can record variations in scale (micro to macro), two- and three-dimensions, and radiation interactions beyond human vision (X-ray, UV, and IR). These techniques offer a variety of new and different ways to document and look at objects that may offer encounters with the surprising and unexpected. Imaging can allow us to see unanticipated materials and details on an object; to gain insight that may change the treatment approach; to uncover new aspects of the creative process or method of manufacture; and to discover a new approach for treatment, exhibition, or collection management.
The AIC Imaging Working Group is interested in facilitating a session following the conference theme "Expected the Unexpected" to explore how imaging fosters encounters with the surprising and unexpected, what imaging has brought to your practice that you have embraced, and even perhaps why you have changed an approach due to imaging influencing your decisions.
Helpful links:
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E. Keats Webb
Imaging Scientist
Museum Conservation Institute
Smithsonian Institution
Suitland, MD
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-08-2023 17:03
From: Adam Neese
Subject: AIC 2024: Imaging Encounters with the Surprising and Unexpected
Hello again IWG,
The Abstract Portal is now open!
AIC also has a very handy set of Abstract Guidelines.
I hope you will consider submitting!
Adam
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Adam Neese (he/him)
Senior Collections Photographer for Conservation
The David Booth Conservation Department
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019
+1 (212) 708 8455
adam_neese@moma.org
Original Message:
Sent: 08-01-2023 17:18
From: Adam Neese
Subject: AIC 2024: Imaging Encounters with the Surprising and Unexpected
Dear IWG,
I'm excited to announce the call for abstracts for Imaging Encounters with the Surprising and Unexpected, a session being hosted by the AIC Imaging Working Group next May in Salt Lake City
The deadline is September 15. Please contact me with any questions.
"Advancing digital imaging and computing capabilities mean that a range of imaging tools, techniques, and technologies are available to conservators and the conservation process. These include techniques that can record variations in scale (micro to macro), two- and three-dimensions, and radiation interactions beyond human vision (X-ray, UV, and IR). These techniques offer a variety of new and different ways to document and look at objects that may offer encounters with the surprising and unexpected. Imaging can allow us to see unanticipated materials and details on an object; to gain insight that may change the treatment approach; to uncover new aspects of the creative process or method of manufacture; and to discover a new approach for treatment, exhibition, or collection management."
I hope you are well!
Adam
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Adam Neese (he/him)
Senior Collections Photographer for Conservation
The David Booth Conservation Department
The Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, New York, NY 10019
+1 (212) 708 8455
adam_neese@moma.org
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