Conference Day 3 – Part 1
Conserving contemporary artworks that may challenge the very notion of art and its materiality, has seen the practice and profession of conservation expand to webs of relationships and infrastructures that have direct impact on the Planet. This conference asks questions about the sustainability of those practices and networks of care. SUSTAINING ART sees conservators, artists, curators, technicians, collectors, researchers and more, coming together to challenge assumptions, examine practices, and imagine equitable futures. Through experience pieces, research talks, panel discussions, workshops, and short films the sustainability of people, practices, and the planet will be pursued in relation to the conservation of contemporary art.
Chair and Presenters: Steph de Roemer and Adam Lockhart
Of Archives and Social Sculpture – Discussion and Q&A
About Adam Lockhart
Adam Lockhart is a Lecturer in Media Art & Archives at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (University of Dundee). He is responsible for the DJCAD media archives, including the
collections of REWIND Artists’ Video. The Demarco Digital Archive and the Alastair MacLennan Archive. Lockhart has established himself as a leading specialist and researcher in the
conservation, preservation, restoration and re-exhibition of artists video, working with artists, galleries and archives and manages the REWIND Media Preservation lab. He has curated and co-curated numerous exhibitions and lectured widely on media art at various institutions.
He has worked on a many funded research projects related to media art and archives. As an artist, he produces and performs music/sound for avant-garde projects, live cinema soundtracks and
alternative music. He also creates video artwork using archive material, and in response to archives through re-interpretation and manipulation.
About Stephanie de Roemer
Stephanie de Roemer studied Art History (Sculpture and Architecture), classical Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Trier, Germany prior to completing a BSc in Conservation and Restoration of Interiors and surface decoration at the London Guildhall University and an MA in the Conservation of Historic (Archaeology) Objects, Durham University. Worked in the
conservation of waterlogged organic archaeological materials and structures and since 2004 as conservator for Sculpture and Historic/Contemporary Interiors/ Installations at the Glasgow
Museums. Working group coordinator for the ICOM-CC Working Group Sculpture, Polychromy and Architectural Decorations from 2014 – 2020 and member of the ICOM-CC Directory Board of
since 2020, and IIC Fellow since 2022.
Richard DeMarco
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