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TechArcheology: A Symposium on Installation Art Conservation

Date
2000

Bay Area Video Coalition organizes TechArcheology: A Symposium on Installation Art Conservation, held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and supported by the Getty Foundation. January 5-6, 2000. About 25 invited participants included the Getty Conservation Institute, MOMA, Tate Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pacific Film ARchives, SFMOMA, and four installation artists Dara Birnbaum, Hary Hill, James Coleman and Steve McQueen.

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Bay Area Video Coalition organized TechArcheology: A Symposium on Installation Art Conservation at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on January 5–6, 2000; the event was supported by the Getty Foundation. About 25 invited participants attended, including representatives from the Getty Conservation Institute, MOMA, Tate Gallery, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pacific Film ARchives and SFMOMA; four installation artists present were Dara Birnbaum, Hary Hill, James Coleman and Steve McQueen.

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