Authenticity, Change and Loss in the Conservation of Time-Based Media Installations

Pip Laurenson is head of ‘Time-based Media Conservation’ at Tate. Her paper focuses on questions of authenticity, change and loss in relation to time-based media installations.

The term time-based media refers to works that incorporate a video, slide, film, audio or computer based element. Time-based media installations involve a media element that is rendered within a defined space and in a way that has been specified by the artist. Part of what it means to experience these works is to experience their unfolding over time according to the temporal logic of the medium as it is played back. It becomes clear in this article that the fact that these works are installations has perhaps a greater impact on the development of a conceptual framework for their conservation than the fact that they involve time-based media.

Read the full article. Language: English.