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Variable Media Fellowship: Guggenheim Museum



Announcement: Fellowship at the Guggenheim Museum in New York

A fellowship is being offered at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum for an in-depth study of the issues surrounding the preservation of ephemeral materials and/or electronic media. 
The fellow would help coordinate a project funded by the Langlois Foundation that supports the advancement of the Variable Media Initiative, a strategy for preserving the artistic integrity of a work through documentation prior to the obsolescence or deterioration of the primary physical materials. 

Responsibilities of the fellow will include: acting as a liaison between the conservation department, curatorial department, and the archives and documentation programs. 
The fellow will explore, study and collect standards for best practices and preservation of materials that will include, among others, analog and electronic media formats. Working with 
the conservators to implement the preservation methods, and assisting documentation and curatorial to record all concerns. The fellow should have an interest in conservation and documentation practices, as well as a good understanding of the current contemporary art environment. Familiarity with materials and processes, including photography, film, magnetic and electronic media formats is preferable. Knowledge of and interest in relational and object-oriented databases is a plus.

The fellow will be supervised by representatives from each department: Curatorial, Conservation, and Archives, Library, & Museum Records. The project is for one year, the hours are flexible and a modest stipend offered.  Interested candidates should contact Jon Ippolito at <JI@guggenheim.org>



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Ann E. Butler
Archivist

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Telephone: 212 360-4241
Telefax: 212 360-4340
abutler@guggenheim.org
archives@guggenheim.org

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