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Interview with David Claerbout
Studio David Claerbout, Antwerp, (February 25, 2009).
Since the end of 1996, David Claerbout (born in 1969 in Kortrijk, Belgium) has been creating a body of work that tacks between still and moving images, photographic and digital techniques, and animation and digital image manipulation.
Influenced by phenomenology, David Claerbout investigates our visual perception and memory. In an attempt to convey reality, his work investigates the boundaries of all forms of visual reproduction.
Barbara Dierickx and Rony Vissers of PACKED spoke with the artist about the documentation of his work and his personal contribution to its preservation.
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Interview with Jean Herben
Olnes, Belgium, (December 17, 2009).
After studying electronics at the Higher Education Institute of Technology of the College of Liège1, Jean Herben worked as a technician for various audio and video equipment retailers, then as a technical manager in a after sales service company. Through love of his vocation, he became a teacher himself at the Institute of Technology, where he conducts a class on television and video. Throughout his career, he has acquired experience in particular in the fields of repairing mass-produced audio and video equipment such as video recorders, camcorders and televisions. In 1988, his preference for solving technical problems and maintaining equipment encouraged him to start writing a series of books, currently published by DUNOD2, about the maintenance and repair of television sets, video recorders, camrecorders and CD players. Emanuel Lorrain (Packed VZW) met Jean Herben to learn from his experience and to understand what issues are important for managing the risks of breakdown and failure, with the type of equipment that can be defined as “general public” and often used by video artists.
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Interview with Joanna Phillips (part 1/2)
Guggenheim Museum, New York, (May 10, 2010).
Joanna Phillips is the Associate Conservator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum1 in New York and focusing on the conservation of media artworks. Originally founded on a collection of early modern masterpieces, the Guggenheim Museum is now an institution devoted to the art of the 20th and 21st century. It is at once a vital cultural center, an educational institution, and the heart of an international network of museums (with exhibition sites also in Venice, Bilbao, Berlin and, in the near future, Abu Dhabi). At the Guggenheim Museum visitors can experience special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, lectures by artists and critics, performances and film screenings.
Joanna Phillips is in charge of the preservation of the video, sound, film and computer-based artworks in the Guggenheim collection. Emanuel Lorrain of PACKED vzw met her to talk about her work in the conservation department and about her approaches to issues related to the preservation and the obsolescence of equipment in media arts.
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Interview with Joanna Phillips (part 2/2)
Guggenheim Museum, New York, (May 10, 2010).
Joanna Phillips is the Associate Conservator of Contemporary Art at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and focusing on the conservation of media artworks. Originally founded on a collection of early modern masterpieces, the Guggenheim Museum is now an institution devoted to the art of the 20th and 21st century. It is at once a vital cultural center, an educational institution, and the heart of an international network of museums (with exhibition sites also in Venice, Bilbao, Berlin and, in the near future, Abu Dhabi). At the Guggenheim Museum visitors can experience special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, lectures by artists and critics, performances and film screenings.
Joanna Phillips is in charge of the preservation of the video, sound, film and computer-based artworks in the Guggenheim collection. Emanuel Lorrain of PACKED vzw met her to talk about her work in the conservation department and about her approaches to issues related to the preservation and the obsolescence of equipment in media arts.
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Interview with Manon de Boer
Greenwich, Brussels, (September 18, 2008) and e-mail correspondence (June 12 and July 1, 2009).
Manon de Boer (Kodaicanal, India, 1966) lives and works in Brussels. Since the mid-1990s, she has been using film, video and sound to create a body of work in which time, history and subjectivity are the central themes. In her film and video work, she plays with the conventions of film language and with the functioning of images within a narrative framework.
Barbara Dierickx and Rony Vissers1 of PACKED spoke with her about the documentation and conservation of her work.
