Talks

Pitt UAG (University of Pittsburgh Art Gallery), April 25, 2024: Turning Points Aging Futures:Conserving Time-Based Media Art (PDF) (URL)
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, Conservation Center May 12, 2023: Book Launch for the Conservation of Time-Based Media Art, Virtual and In-person event. Putting Practice to Paper: The Conservation of Time-based Media Art: A Book Launch Celebration. (PDF) (Video)
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, Conservation Center July 2, 2022: Reflections and Projections: Time-based Media Art Conservation Education and Outreach Webinar. Coding for Conservators: Preparing Time-based Media Conservators to Care for Software-based Art. (PDF)
Dia: Joan Jonas Knowledge Base Launch Event Introduction Glenn Wharton, Barbara Clausen, Deena Engel, Lozana Rossenova, October 15, 2021 (PDF)
WikidataCon October 29-31, 2021: A sustainable future for Wikidata, Online conference. Enriching the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base with linked open data via Wikidata with Barbara Clausen and Lozana Rossenova. (Video)
AIC (American Institute for Conservation), Salt Lake City, May 22, 2020 Sesson Postponed to July 20, 2020 Online Session: Electronic Media and Contemporary Art Talk: Developing the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base - An Open Access Digital Resource with Prof. Glenn Wharton, UCLA and Prof. Barbara Clausen, UQAM
College Art Assocation, Chicago, February 13, 2020 Session: Beyond the Algorithm: Art Historians, Librarians, and Archivists in Collaboration on Digital Humanities Initiatives Chairs: Maggie Joe Mustard, The New Museum of Contemporary Art; Amye McCarther, New Museum. Talk: Capturing Scholarship and Datasets in Contemporary Art: The Joan Jonas Knowledge Base with Prof. Barbara Clausen, UQAM and Prof. Glenn Wharton, UCLA
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, November 4, 2019. The Artist Archives Initiative with Glenn Wharton, UCLA. (Summary) (PDF)
The Frick Collection, New York City, November 1, 2019 Interrogating the Archive: SQL for Art Historians Workshop with Pepe Karmel. (PDF) and Calendar (PDF)
Material Immaterial: Photographs in the 21st Century, Yale University, New Haven, CT., September 24, 2019 Panel: Collecting the Immaterial Moderator: Chitra Ramalingam, Yale Center for British Art; with co-panelists Judy Ditner, Yale University Art Gallery and Erin O’Toole, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (PDF) (Program)
The Frick Collection, New York City, May 2, 2019 The Artists Archives Initiative: New Research Models for Contemporary Artists with Glenn Wharton. (Screen) (Video)
Symposium—Conserving Active Matter: Materials Science Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bard Graduate Center, New York City, March 28, 2019 The Fragility of Software-Based Art: An Approach to Developing Strategies for Conservation and Treatment (Program) (PDF)
The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, California, March 21, 2019 Reflecting on Digital Art History, Computational Art History & Beyond (Abstract ... References cited in the talk)
AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) - Washington D.C., February 17, 2019 Session: Medicine, Computer Science and Art: Learning through Technology Talk: Conserving and Restoring Computer-Based Art in an Ethical Framework with Francesca Casadio (Director of the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts: A Collaboration between Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago),Marc Walton (Northwestern University Mccormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, Dept. of Materials Science) and Rachel Sabino (Associate Conservator, Art Institute of Chicago). (AAAS Listing) (PDF)
NYU Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center, February 4, 2019. Mathematics and Art
Gordon Research Conference: Leading Edge Applications of Data Science, Degradation Science, and Conservation Strategies for Cultural Heritage - Barcelona, Spain July 26, 2018. The State of the Art in Time-Based Media Conservation (PDF)
Electronic Media Group (EMG) of the American Institute of Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works) - Houston, TX June 1, 2018. Introducing Code Resituation: Applying the Concept of Minimal Intervention to the Conservation Treatment of Software-Based Art with Joanna Phillips, Time-based Media Conservator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (PDF) (Article) (PDF)
New York University, Institute of Fine Arts, Conservation Center: Its About Time! Building a New Discipline: Time Based Media Art Conservation, Courant Institute, New York City, May 20-22, 2018. Enhancing Conservation Practice through Museum-Academic Collaboration and Cross-Disciplinary Education with Joanna Phillips, Senior Conservator of Time-Based Media, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. (PDF)
Yale Center for British Art: Is This Permanence: Preservation of Born-digital Artists’ Archives, New Haven, CT, May 11, 2018 - The Artist Archives Initiative: Researching and Developing New Models for Digital Art Information Preservation and Delivery with Glenn Wharton (PDF)
Artist Archives Initiative 2018 Symposium, April 20, 2018. Co-Chair and Moderator (Poster and Program)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Time-Based Media Working Group Lecture Series, New York City, November 16, 2017 - The Life-Cycle of a Software-Based Work of Art: From Creation to Conservation (Invitation ... Webpage)
Forever and A Day: Archiving Performa - New York, NY, November 4, 2017. Artist Archives Initiative and the Joan Jonas Knowledge Base (PDF)
Electronic Media Group (EMG) of the American Institute of Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works) - Chicago, IL June 1, 2017. New Research and Developments in the Conservation of Computer-based Art with Joanna Phillips, Time-based Media Conservator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (Schedule) (PDF)
EMG (Electronic Media Group of the American Institute of Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works) - Chicago, IL June 1, 2017 The David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base: A Wiki-based Solution for Conservation and Exhibition Documentation with Prof. Glenn Wharton, Department of Museum Studies, NYU (Abstract) (PDF)
Association of North American Graduate Programs in Conservation - Morgan Library, New York City, April 21, 2017. The Honorary Angelica Zander Rudenstine Lecture "The Conservation of Software-Based Art: Understanding the Source Code" (Program) (PDF)
The Artist Archives Initiative Symposium, Fales Specials Collection, The David Wojnarowicz Knowledge Base: The Database Challenge April 21, 2017. (PDF)
Digital Humanities Meets Art Galleries, Humanities Center, NYU, A Cross-disciplinary Study of Software-based Art in the Guggenheim Collectionwith Joanna Phillips, March 28, 2017. (PDF) (Video)
Topics in Time-based Media Art Conservation, NYU Institute of Fine Arts, November 14, 2016. Source Code Analysis in the Conservation of Software-based Art (PDF) ( Video)
PASIG [Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group] - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, October 27, 2016. Studying the Conservation of Software-based Art: An interdisciplinary Academic-Museum Research Collaboration with Joanna Phillips, Time-based Media Conservator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: (PDF). (Project) and (PDf)
Tech Focus III: Caring for Software-Based Art - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, September 26, 2015. Understanding code as the Foundation of Software-Based Art: Coding Exercise in Processingand with Prof Glenn Wharton The Documentation of Artists’ Source Code as a Preservation Tool (PDF) (Program) (Resources)
Electronic Media Group (EMG) of the American Institute of conservation of Historic and Artistic Works) - Miami, Florida, May 16, 2015. Computational Provenance and Computational Reproducibility: What Can We Learn About the Conservation of Software Art From Current Research in the Sciences? with Mark Hellar (PDF)
Graduate Student Workshops in Digital Humanities, New York University, June 2, 2015. Introduction to TEI with Prof. Marion Thain. (Announcement) (Description)
Electronic Media Group (EMG)of the American Institute of conservation of Historic and Artistic Works) - San Fransisco, CA May 30, 2014. Museum / University Collaborations in Media Conservation Research with Prof. Glenn Wharton (Schedule) (JPG)
National Portrait Gallery of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., January 17, 2014. Technology Experiments in Art: Conserving Software-Based Artworks The Value of Software Documentation in Conserving Software-Art: Case Studies at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York City (PDF) ( VOCA blog) (PDF)
Electronic Media Group (EMG) of the American Institute of conservation of Historic and Artistic Works), Indianapolis, Indiana, May 31, 2013. Technical Documentation of Source Code at the Museum of Modern Art with Glenn Wharton, Time-Based Media Conservator, Museum of Modern Art - (Schedule) (PDF)
Yale University Library's Standing Committee on Professional Awareness (SCOPA) and the Digital Humanities Working Group, February 10, 2012.Putting Primary Source Material Online: A Case Study from New York University (Notes) (Bibliography)