Proceedings of Objects and Electronic Media + Objects Specialty Group Sessions
43rd Annual Meeting in Miami, Florida; May 13-16, 2015

Practical Philosophy, or Making Conservation Work

Edited by Emily Hamilton and Kari Dodson, with Sarah Barack and Kate Moomaw, Program Chairs

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Program Chair’s Foreword
Sarah Barack

Postprints abstracts

• Artist intention and the conservation of contemporary art
  Glenn Wharton

• From theory to practice: Instituting the Hirshhorn Artist Interview Program
  Gwynne Ryan and Steven O’Banion

• Preserving what is right: Finding similarities between collaborating with a living artist and Buddhist monks
  Céline Chrétien

• Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings: Conservation of an ephemeral art practice
  John Hogan and Carol Snow

• The butterfly effect: A case study on the value of artist collaboration in the conservation of ephemeral material
  Crista Pack, Mina Thompson, and Tasha Ostrander

• Neutralizing the nuclear option
  Donna Williams

• Dry ice blasting in the conservation of metals: A technical assessment as a conservation technique and practical application in the removal of surface coatings
  Cassy Cutulle and Seoyoung Kim

• Elephant ivory: An overview of changes to its stringent regulation and considerations for its identification
  Stephanie E. Hornbeck

• One small step for man, one giant leap for conservation
  Paul Mardikian, Claudia Chemello, and Jerrad Alexander

• Silver or gold? Surprising challenges in cleaning a 19th-century Persian water pipe
  Ariel O’Connor, Meg Craft, Glenn Gates, and Julie Lauffenburger

• Working with a collection of radioactive aircraft instruments
  Sharon Norquest, Amelia Kile, and David Peters

Tip Session

• The use of CopyFlex food grade silicone rubber for making impressions of archaeological objects
  Vanessa Muros, Heather White, and Özge Gençay-Üstün

• Eraser cleaning of gypsum plaster: Evaluating damage potential using reflectance transformation imaging
  Kathryn Brugioni

• Flexible fills: A technique for imitating Asian lacquer
  Ellen Promise, Jessica Chloros, and Holly Salmon

Unpublished presentation abstracts

• Beloved treasures: Assessing the effects of long-term display on models containing wax
  Suzanne Hargrove and Marissa Stevenson

• The artists’ dialogues series: Exploring materiality, process, and conservation with artists from Los Angeles
  Rachel Rivenc and Tom Learner

• Beyond the interview: Working with artists in time-based media conservation
  Kate Lewis

• The Abandonment of Art: The abandonment of conservation, a Lygia Clark retrospective at MoMA
  Cindy Albertson, Roger Griffith, Eric Meier, and Margo Delidow

• Conserving Anthony McCall’s solid light films
  Jeff Martin

Tip Session

• Removing soiling from painted outdoor sculpture
  Abigail Mack