Workshop
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Part of the ARC The 20th Century in Paint Project and APTCCARN
Two-day workshop
Monday 23rd March & Tuesday 24th March 2009
International cross-disciplinary research partnerships require modes of communication that enable access to complex and disparate forms of data. The Asia Pacific Twentieth Century Conservation Art Research Network (APTCCARN) and ARC Linkage project The Twentieth Century in Paint, engages scientists, curators, conservators, art historians, and artists from twelve public institutions and six universities on four continents to research Twentieth-century art in the Asia-Pacific. The research will examine new media, pigments, dyes and additives that led to the creation of revolutionary works of art in the 20th century in both Australia and Southeast Asia. It will consider how these materials impact on modern art’s paint handling, performance and permanence.
A two-day workshop on Monday 23 March and Tuesday 24 March will investigate the IT frameworks to support the research networks and enable the communication of data and results. The workshop includes an overview of research to date and research models in art conservation, modern paint, Synchrotron science and on-line organisational systems. There will be a public program on Monday 23 March and a planning workshop on Tuesday 24 March.
The workshop will be opened by Dr Najib Ahmad Dawa, Director, National Art Gallery in Malaysia and speakers include:
- Professor Jane Hunter, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland
- Ms Zanita Anuar, Curator, National Art Gallery in Malaysia
- Dr Tom Learner, Getty Conservation Institute
- Dr Stephen Best, School of Chemistry, University of Melbourne
- Mr Amerrudin Ahmad, Curator, National Art Gallery in Malaysia
- Professor Leon Sterling, eResearch, The University of Melbourne
- Professor Carl Schiesser, ARC Centre of Excellence for Free Radical Chemistry and Biotechnology, University of Melbourne
- Dr. Maricor Soriano, University of the Philippines
- Dr. Supanee Chayabata, Silapakorn University
- Professor John Drennan, Centre for Microscopy and Microanalysis, University of Queensland
- Associate Professor Robyn Sloggett, CCMC
- Dr Nicole Tse, CCMC
For further details contact:
Mr Tim Ould: tould@unimelb.edu.au
Dr Nicole Tse: nicoleat@unimelb.edu.au
This program is organised by the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation and funded by an International Research Planning Workshop Award, The University of Melbourne.