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Conservation in the iPad age

Once conservators needed to know about paper and canvas, now they manage everything from bark paintings to magnetic tape.

22 Apr 2014 12:00

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

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Next month’s AICCM conference looks at shifting professional practices in collection care, from iPad condition reporting to conserving time-based media. Conservators and collection managers will descend on Sydney’s Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) for a symposium that faces the challenges and changes in preserving and conserving cultural material in our times.

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Gina Fairley

Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina