AIC's 50th Annual Meeting

Reflecting on the Past, Imagining the Future

Live Stream May 13 - 17, 2022

SPEAKERS

Patricia Falcão

Patricia is a Portuguese time-based media conservator working at Tate, where she researches and develops strategies for the preservation of software-based artworks. More recently, in the context of the Reshaping the Collectible project, this has broadened to include the acquisition and preservation of web-based artworks. In the past eight years, she has consistently published on the theme of preservation of time-based media, digital and software-based art, in the conservation and digital preservation communities.

Ting-Fu Fan

Ting-Fu Fan majored in Asian Paintings Conservation and received his M.A. degree at the Graduate Institute of Conservation of Cultural Relics, Tainan National University of the Arts, Taiwan, in 2004. He has worked at the National Palace Museum as a Chinese paintings conservator since 2006. Afterward, he worked in the Hirayama studio at the British Museum. In 2008, he established a conservation studio, San Jian (三間) in Taipei. Ting-Fu’s professional interests focus on conservation research, treatment development, and preventive conservation for Eastern painting and artwork on paper. Being one of the leading conservation institutions in Taiwan, he had led the team to provides conservation services for public museums and private collectors. In recent years, his team had completed many conservation projects, collection care projects, documentation and condition reports, digitization projects for various museums.

John Fidler

John Fidler BA(Hons), DipArch, MAarch, AAGradipl, RIBA, IHBC, Intl. Assoc. AIA, FRICS, FSA, FRSA, FIIC, FAPT., is a British-licensed architect with two postgraduate degrees in building conservation and over 40 years specialist experience in the field, and has run his award-winning, international, consultancy since 2012. Previously, he was Conservation Director of English Heritage in London and Vice President of ICCROM in Rome. Currently, he is rewriting a 4th edition of the late Sir Bernard Feilden's Conservation of Historic Buildings (Routledge, forthcoming).

Ben Fino-Radin

Ben is the author of Right-sizing a time-based media conservation program at Glenstone.

Erin Fitterer

Erin Fitterer is a graduate student at the Conservation Center at the Institute of Fine Art, New York University, concentrating in time-based media and object conservation. She received a Masters of Arts in art history from Rutgers University and a Bachelors of Arts in history and English from Seattle University. She spent the summer of 2021 documenting time-based media art work at the Brooklyn Museum. Prior to starting at NYU, she worked as a technician and pre-program intern at a number of institutions, including the National Gallery of Art, the Rakow Research Library at the Corning Museum of Glass, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, and the Morgan Library and Museum.

Chiara Fornari

She graduated in architecture at the University of Florence in 2000 with a thesis in Construction Science concerning the behavior of masonry subject to seismic stresses. She graduated as Restorer of Cultural Heritage at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence in 2003, with a thesis about resin additions and assembly system of a 16th century sculpture by Della Robbia. In 2012 she obtained the first level master's degree in "Conservation and restoration of contemporary art" at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure. She has been freelance architect and restorer until 2018 working on restoration interventions and installations in museum environments. In 2016 and 2017 she is professor at the School of higher Education of the Opificio delle Pietre Dure on Restoration Techniques and at the SUSCOR of Venaria on History of Artistic Techniques. Since 2018 she has been the Conservator at the Department of Restoration of Ceramic, Plastic and Vitreous Materials at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence, where she also lectures. Chiara lives and works in Florence (Italy).

Emily B. Frank

Emily B. Frank is an objects and sculpture conservator, as well as a PhD Candidate at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), at NYU. She did her conservation training in the joint MS/MA program in Conservation of Artistic and Historic Works and History of Art and Archaeology at the Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU, as well as in the MA in Principles of Conservation from the Institute of Archaeology at University College London. Emily has worked in conservation throughout her education; currently, she teaches the image-based documentation curriculum at the Conservation Center at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU, and works on the Kınık Höyük Archaeological Project, on the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, and in private practice. Her dissertation project at ISAW explores intentional interventions in Roman objects in the Roman Empire.

Nora Frankel

Nora Frankel of Frankel Textile Conservation LLC has been a textile conservator in private practice in the Baltimore and Washington area since 2019. Previous positions include Assistant Conservator of Objects and Textiles at the Williamstown Art Conservation Center and Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Textile Conservation at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of the American Indian. She trained at University of Glasgow (MPhil Textile Conservation, 2016) and University College London (MA Principles of Conservation, 2014). She has served on the Equity and Inclusion Committee and as a Textile Specialty Group Postprints editor since 2018. She is also a textile artist.

Ayesha Fuentes

Dr Ayesha Fuentes is an objects conservator and technical historian specializing in Asian material religion. She recently completed her PhD at SOAS University of London and is currently the Isaac Newton Trust Research Associate in Conservation at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge.

Kathryn Brugioni Gabrielli

Kathryn Brugioni Gabrielli is the Engen Fellow in Conservation at the National Air and Space Museum. Prior to her fellowship at NASM, Kate was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Sculpture and Decorative Arts Conservation at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, focusing on the technical analysis of the Historic Arts of Africa. Kate attended graduate school at the Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, earning an MA in Art History & Archaeology and an MS in Conservation. She has worked at the National Gallery of Art, D.C., Emory University, and the University of Denver, as well as on archaeological excavations in Italy, Greece, and France (kate.b.gabrielli@gmail.com).

Chiara Gabbriellini

She graduated at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure in Florence in 2003. She has been involved in the conservation and restoration of ceroplastic, ceramic, plaster and stucco, papier-maché and glass artifacts. She is currently working into a permanent contract as Restorer-‐Conservator of the Ceramics, Objects and Glass Conservation Departement at the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and she’s also involved in the teaching activity for the students of the OPD School of Higher Education. Chiara lives and works in Florence (Italy).

Alix de La Gaignonnière

Alix Sportich du Réau de La Gaignonnière is an architect, urban planner and geographer specialising in heritage management. He has worked for several years in the public sector (town halls) and the private sector (architecture and urban planning agencies) on town centre revitalisation projects. He is interested in the evolution of planning practices in small towns and the impact of urban shrinkage on the management of urban heritage. He is currently a doctoral researcher at the Ecole normale supérieure de Paris (PSL university). He is a member of the European research network Re-City, which compares urban shrinkage internationally, and the PAVIM network, which studies the dynamics at work in small French cities. At the same time, he teaches urban planning at the Geography Department of ENS-PSL and at the Paris-la-Villette School of Architecture. Since 2018, he is also Assistant Director of Fine Arts at the Fontainebleau Schools of Music and Fine Arts where he coordinates teaching between architects and musicians. His research is supported by the Palladio Foundation, of which he is a 2019 laureate.

Carla Gastaud

Carla is the co-author of Social Disconnection: Is it the 11th Agent of Deterioration?

Molly Gleeson

Molly Gleeson (she/her) is the Senior Project Conservator at the Penn Museum, located at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. Molly regularly works in the museum’s visible conservation lab where she treats artifacts in full public view, interacts with museum visitors daily, and blogs about the work in the lab and is a lead project conservator for the Ancient Egypt and Nubia Galleries project. Molly completed her M.A. at the UCLA/Getty Master’s Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials and her undergraduate degree in art conservation from the University of Delaware. Molly is a Professional Associate member of AIC and is the AIC Board Director for Professional Education. She works closely with AIC's Emerging Conservation Professionals Network (ECPN), the Education and Training Committee, and the Equity and Inclusion Committee.

Andrea Goldstein

Andrea Goldstein was the Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Costume and Textiles Conservation at The Philadelphia Museum of Art. She is a graduate of the University of Glasgow Centre for Textile Conservation and Technical Art History program and has a degree in Biology from the University of Virginia. Her conservation experiences include internships at the University of Virginia Library Preservation Services, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, The Glasgow School of Art, National Museums Scotland, and The Victoria and Albert Museum.

Ana Paula Gomez

Conservator and restorer of movable heritage assets, with a master's degree in art history. Since 2016, I have been working in the Museums Strengthening Program of the Ministry of Culture of Colombia, providing support and advice to national museums on preventive conservation and collection management issues. Since recent years I have had a great interest in disaster risk management for museums, working to generate stimuli in this field and greater visualization for the museum sector.
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Monica Grasty

Monica is the co-author of Identification of mahogany and look-alike woods in 18th- and 19th-century furniture using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and pyrolysis gas chromatography mass spectrometry (Py-GC/MS).

An Gu

An is the author of the Revelation of three kinds of traditional Chinese gilding technique applied on wooden relics of Qing Dynasty collected in the Forbidden City.

Detlef Günther

Detlef Günther was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of ETH Zurich in 1998 and became associate Professor in July 2003. Since February 2008 he is full Professor for Trace Element and Micro Analysis and since January 2015 Vice President for Research and Corporate Relations of ETH Zurich. His research interests are trace element characterizations of different samples using Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS) and Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS). In the last years he worked mainly on new sample introduction systems for nanoparticles and laser-generated aerosols and on fundamental vaporization processes of particles within an ICP. A new instrument based on a portable laser ablation system has been developed and allows direct sampling in the field, which is most interesting for archeological applications. Most recently new developments towards high spatialy resolved multielement imaging capabilities are carried out.

Damian Gwerder

Damian is the author of The effect of conservation agents on non-destructive dendrochronology.

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