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Time-based media

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Time-based media is a term coined by museum conservators for durational works of art that unfold over a period of time.{{Cite journal |last1=Milbourne |first1=Karen E |last2=Roberts |first2=Mary Nooter |last3=Roberts |first3=Allen F |date=2015 |title=Senses of Time: Video and Film-Based Arts of Africa |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24720722 |journal=African Arts |volume=48 |issue=4 |pages=72–74 |doi=10.1162/AFAR_r_00255 |jstor=24720722 |s2cid=57572019 |url-access=subscription }} This work often relies on technology, but includes mediums such as performance art and social practice.{{Cite web|url=https://www.guggenheim.org/conservation/time-based-media|title=Time-Based Media|website=The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.britannica.com/art/performance-art|title=Performance art | Britannica|website=www.britannica.com}} In the late 1990s, various institutions and organizations started forming think-tanks and working groups to develop standard practices for the acquisition, analysis, and care for these works over time.

Time-based media conservation

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Time-based media art presents unique challenges for the field of conservation. While early media conservators often came from traditional sculpture conservation backgrounds, contemporary media conservators benefit from having diverse backgrounds and experiences. The American Institute for Conservation formed the Electronic Media Group in 1998.{{cite web | url=https://www.culturalheritage.org/membership/groups-and-networks/electronic-media-group | title=Electronic Media Group }} The variable media initiative was active at the Guggenheim from 1999 to 2004.{{cite web | url=https://www.guggenheim.org/conservation/the-variable-media-initiative | title=The Variable Media Initiative }}{{cite web | url=https://www.guggenheim.org/conservation/time-based-media | title=Time-Based Media }} Matters in Media Art – a collaboration between the New Art Trust, MoMA, SFMoMA, and the Tate – launched in 2005 to help institutions, collectors, and conservators keep works of media art alive.{{Cite web|url=http://mattersinmediaart.org/|title=Matters in Media Art|website=mattersinmediaart.org}} NYU launched the Time-based Media Art Conservation Education Program in the fall of 2018 under the guidance of Christine Frohnert and Hannelore Roemich. https://ifa.nyu.edu/people/faculty/Roemich_PDFs/2018_Roemich_Frohnert_Electronic%20Media%20Review.pdf{{cite web | url=https://ifa.nyu.edu/conservation/time-based-media.htm | title=Institute of Fine Arts: Time-Based Media Art Conservation }} In recent decades, various major institutions such as the Whitney, the Museum of Modern Art, The Met, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and The Smithsonian have appointed trained time-based media conservators to care for their growing collections of variable media.{{Cite web|url=https://whitney.org/conservation/mpi|title=Media Preservation Initiative (MPI)|website=whitney.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www3.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/conservation-and-scientific-research/time-based-media-working-group|title=Time-Based Media Working Group|website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art}}{{cite web | url=https://www.si.edu/TBMA/ | title=Time-based Media & Digital Art | Time-based Media & Digital Art }}{{cite web | url=https://www.tate.org.uk/about-us/conservation/time-based-media | title=Time Based Media }}

Collectors

Outside of institutions, major collectors of time-based media art include Robert Rosenkranz, Ingvild Goetz, Julia Stoschek, and Pamela and Richard Kramlich.{{cite web | url=https://www.sammlung-goetz.de/en/collection/the-collector-ingvild-goetz/ | title=The collector Ingvild Goetz }}{{cite web | url=https://www.kramlichcollection.org/about | title=About [Kramlich Collection]}}{{cite web | url=https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/ingvild-goetz-art-collection | title=Why Ingvild Goetz is One of World's Most Important Art Collectors }}{{cite web | url=https://www.aspenartmuseum.org/exhibitions/319-mountain-time | title=Mountain / Time }}

In the media

The podcast Art and Obsolescence features interviews with artists, curators, conservators, and collectors regarding time-based media and its conservation.{{Cite web|url=https://www.artandobsolescence.com/|title=Art and Obsolescence Podcast Hosted by Cass Fino-Radin|website=Art and Obsolescence Podcast }}

Artists

The list below consists of notable artists who create or have created significant works that fall under the time-based media category:

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See also

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Category:Museology