The bi-annual Australasian Registrars Committee conference will be held at the National Gallery of Victoria from 8-10 February 2012. Early bird registrations close on Friday 2 December 2011.
A strong line up of industry professionals will present and discuss a diverse range of documentation topics including exhibitions; the impact of disasters; provenance; and collection stocktaking. Confirmed speakers include Freda Matassa (UK), Shane Simpson (AU), Norman Palmer (UK) & Rebecca Buck (US).
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe - ZKM | Media Museum
What happens to media art when the Internet environment for which it was conceived, changes? Can works that were once developed for the PC now be shown on an iPad? The exhibition Digital Art Works - The Challenges of Conservation at the ZKM | Media Museum fundamentally explores questions related to collecting, exhibiting, and maintaining computer–based art works and makes the work concerning digital conservation visible.
The ICON Paintings Group invite you to a St Valentine’s Day Talk given by Christopher Stevens, Superintendent of the Royal Collection, Hampton Court Palace. The Royal Collection: Back to Front - Marks, labels & seals on the backs of paintings
Tuesday, 14th February 2012
Doors open at 6pm talk begins at 6.30pm prompt Venue: the Grand Robing Room,
Freemason’s Hall,
60 Great Queen Street,
London WC2B 5AZ
UK
Close to both Covent Garden and Holborn Tube Stations
This is the open call for papers for the next Art History Supplement (AHS).
The proposed general theme, but not limited to, is "History of conservation".
Submission deadline 20 February 2012.
Aspects of conservation in theory and in practice. Conservation of material and immaterial, conservation of tangible and intangible culture, of paintings and buildings, natural places and sites. Conservation of personal and oral histories, or else when conservation becomes commemoration.
The Board of the Low Countries Sculpture Society invites conservators around the world to apply for The Low Countries Sculpture Society Award : The 2012 Award for Conservation, to celebrate the best conservation in the years 2002-2012 of a sculpture in any material and of any period from Antiquity to today, that bears some relation to the Low Countries (e.g. place of conception and/or production; a principal place of activity of the sculptor ; birthplace of the sculptor ; current ownership or placing ; important collecting history).
3rd International Conference on Surface Metrology.
Annecy, Savoie Mt Blanc, France
URL:http://www.icsm3.org
Submissions are invited from all fields involving the measurement and analysis of surface metrologies including: archeology, art conservation, anthropology, biology, biomedical engineering, chemistry, civil engineering, counterfeiting, defense, forensic, food science, geodetics, geology, material science, mechanical engineering,medical sciences, physics, security, sport equipment, tribology, etc.
On the occasion of a three-year research project on 'Dyeing techniques of the prehistoric Hallstatt-Textiles' funded by the Austrian Science FWF [L431-G02] at the Natural History Museum of Vienna both an exhibition and a symposium will be organized. In co-operation with the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, the Austrian Society for Textile-Art-Research and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands at both events, a colourful spectrum of research and art is presented. Exhibition:
Registration is now open for the conference “Wood in the 21st century - Design and Preservation of Contemporary & Historic Architecture”
Organised by
• Technology & Conservation
• MIT Department of Architecture's Building Technology programmeme
• Boston Society of Architects/AIA's Historic Resources Committee
IRUG is pleased to announce that the 10th international IRUG conference (IRUG10) will be hosted by the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the University of Barcelona in March 2012. Delegates from universities and museums throughout the world are encouraged to attend to share their experiences in the spectroscopic analysis of cultural heritage materials. Venue:University of Barcelona
Faculty of Chemistry
Dept. Analytical Chemistry
Barcelona, Spain e-mail:IRUG10BCN@ub.edu
