Time-Based Media Art Conservation Internship 1 Year Contract

Key Responsibilities

Key responsibilities to be undertaken based on priorities agreed with HOD and subject to the needs of the Department/ Programme.

• Support the Collection team with processing new and recent acquisitions, including reviewing proposed artwork deliverables and purchase agreements; conducting artist interviews; cataloguing, condition assessment, reporting, and archival ingest and storage (physical and digital) of received artwork components; and creation of conservation documentation.
• Support AV and Collection team in preparing TBM Collection works for exhibition and loan, including performing condition assessments and completing condition reports; reviewing object files and specifications and identifying knowledge gaps; and working with the Collection team to solicit additional material from artists, galleries, and estates.
• Create compressive written conservation documentation of installed/activated TBM Collection works.
• Support Collection team and IT in relation to dedicated TBM server storage and development of digital preservation infrastructure.
• Work with existing acquisition and exhibition process lines, procedures, and workflows, and contribute to their ongoing development and implementation.
• Support the Collection team with ongoing cataloguing and inventory of existing TBM Collection components, including data cleaning in IMMA’s collection management system, review of existing practices, risk assessment and collection survey.
• Identify and propose individualised artwork preservation plans, and work with IMMA staff and external contractors to conduct and document conservation interventions.
• Conduct original research related to the TBM Collection and its conservation and disseminate research through IMMA Web site and other public programming.