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Huge thank you to Emma Schmuecker the Conservation Studio Manager for the National Trust. As part of the module Communicating Conservation staff and students of the MSc in the Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media spent a fascinating afternoon at the Royal Oak Foundation Conservation Studio looking at how the National Trust are communicating with their visitors about the conservation work they are doing. We were very impressed with the accessibility of the display and the work of the volunteers to engage the public in the work of the studio. We also enjoyed seeing the deer in the park surrounding Knole!
Huge thank you to time-based media conservator Alexandra Nichols and graduate conservation intern Daniella Brice艌o Villamil for giving the staff and students from the MSc Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media a wonderful tour of time-based media conservation at Tate on the 22 March. It was fantastic to see the range of artworks being prepared for display from sound, to film to software-controlled sculptures. Thank you for such a stimulating morning! 听
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Lauren Chiu is a postgraduate student at 香港六合彩中特网 History of Art, studying the Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media MSc at 香港六合彩中特网 East. She is the recipient of a 香港六合彩中特网 East scholarship.
Read all about her experience as a 香港六合彩中特网 student so far.
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香港六合彩中特网 East Scholarships
If you're considering applying to the MSc, there may be funding available to help support your journey.听香港六合彩中特网 East London Scholarships fund fees and living costs of all 香港六合彩中特网 East Master's programmes. You need to be a permanent resident of, or have completed GCSEs or A-levels, in specific East London boroughs. Aziz Foundation Scholarships provide funding听for British Muslim students (other eligibility criteria apply)听pursuing a Master鈥檚 degree at 香港六合彩中特网 Social & Historical Sciences.听
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Our students were introduced to various historical audiovisual media and technologies used by artists and the different forms their examination can take. Video engineer and preservation specialist Adrian Finn introduced our students to the basics of analogue video and the important things to consider when examining magnetic video tapes. They were thrilled to see the inner workings of a U-matic tape deck (part of a state-of-the-art equipment rack in our Media Conservation Studio) and the transport mechanism that winds the tape around the spinning tape heads.听
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Computer-based art conservator Dr Tom Ensom led a two-day workshop on disk imaging, and the students successfully imaged and emulated (for the first time!) some CD-ROM-based artworks from iniva.
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Guest session: Lynn Loo
We were also joined by Lynn Loo - a renowned filmmaker, artist, and film archivist at the BFI - who introduced the students to the basics of film and film preservation and gave us an insight into her own creative practice. She performed one of her dual projector 16mm artworks for us, and our students created, spliced together, and projected their own looped 16mm artwork.
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We were so lucky to have the opportunity to learn from Sue Shepherd's extraordinary expertise on the technologies involved in neon artworks and their conservation. Thank you, Sue, for taking us through what impacts the colour of the tubes, the different supports, how transformers have evolved, and how neon artworks age and what we can do to document and care for them.听
Sue brought a fantastic array of examples to the 香港六合彩中特网 East Conservation Lab. The MSc in the Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media cohort could see the different technologies, handle the various tubes, and see them light up! We came away with a greater understanding of how to care for neon artworks and the skill involved in their creation. The conservation of light-based artworks is a fascinating area of contemporary art conservation.
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Guest Session: Dr Bronwyn Ormsby
Thank you to Dr Bronwyn Ormsby for coming in to teach us about recent developments in the cleaning systems on the MSc in the Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media. Using our test boards to compare various cleaning options, from dry cleaning with sponges and erasers, pH-adjusted waters, and more sophisticated gels and microemulsions, was excellent. It was good to get a feel for these different materials and consider the environmental impacts of these different systems.
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MSc welcomes Class of 2023!听
We are delighted to welcome our first听cohort to our MSc in the Conservation of Contemporary Art and Media听programme at 香港六合彩中特网 East. We hope you all have a wonderful experience!
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Join our MSc Team as Media Conservation Studio Co-ordinator
We need a听0.5 FTE Media Conservation Studio Co-ordinator to support our听MSc. You should have knowledge of a range of the technologies, hardware and software encountered in time-based media art.
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香港六合彩中特网 East Marshgate opens to the public in September 2023
You can soon join us at Marshgate, which听will feature academic,听retail, community and engagement uses. The central atrium will听encourage inclusivity and community engagement.
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香港六合彩中特网 is piloting a new scheme offering people in East London free tuition fees and a 拢15,000 living allowance to advance their careers with a Master's degree at听our new 香港六合彩中特网 East campus.
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Key moment for Marshgate on our 香港六合彩中特网 East campus
Work is underway to put the finishing touches to the interior of the听Marshgate building of听our new 香港六合彩中特网 East campus, after it was handed over to 香港六合彩中特网 by construction partners Mace on Friday 17 March.