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Article in NWO magazine Quest

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The New Strategies in Conservation project is explained in an article by Sandra Genet based on her interview with project coordinator Renee van de Vall and PhD candidate Sanneke Stigter that took place in the Kröller-Müller Museum. Sandra Genet, 'Ideas of Nature 2.0', Experiment NL 3 – NWO/Quest, 2010: 148-151
 

New Strategies at CAWC?

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The New Strategies group organizes a discussion session at the symposium

Contemporary Art: Who Cares?

The session Crossovers between Practice and Theory  aims to explore and encourage fruitful crossovers between academic research (in particular qualitative research) and practitioners in the field of contemporary art conservation.

Date: June 11th
Place: Amsterdam

For more information please visit the session page http://www.incca.org/cawc-programme/day-3/685-crossovers-practice-theory

 

Dissertation defense Vivian van Saaze

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On December 17 2009 Vivian van Saaze succesfully defended her PhD thesis Doing Artworks. A Study into the Presentation and Conservation of Installation Artworks at Maastricht University (UM). The thesis was the result of a matching collaboration of Maastricht University and the Netherlands Institute for Cultural Heritage (ICN). The thesis was supervised by prof. dr. Robert Zwijnenberg (UM/Leiden University), prof. dr. Renée van de Vall (UM) and IJsbrand Hummelen (ICN).

NRC Handelsblad published an interview with Vivian van Saaze on December 17, 2009.

 

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PHD POSITION FULFILLED

In September 2009, Hanna Hölling started her PhD Research for 'New Strategies in Conservation' at University of Amsterdam. The title of her project is 'Material and Media'. This project is funded by NWO.

 

APPLICATION ACCEPTED BY NWO

In August 2008, the research programme was submitted to the Netherlands Organsiation for Scientific Research (NWO). In January 2009, NWO accepted the research proposal. Individual research projects will start from September 2009.

Link to Research Programme

 

EXPERT MEETING

In February 2008, an expert meeting was organised in order to discuss the Application with a broader group of experts in the field of contemporary art conservation.

Link to expert meeting

 

 


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Artful Encounters Report

PhD work-in-progress day & Artful Encounters. A Seminar on Ethnography, Art and Conservation
November 17-19 2010 Maastricht, The Netherlands
On November 17th 2010, a PhD work-in-progress day was organized at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences in Maastricht, The Netherlands. The work-in-progress day was set up in the framework of the New Strategies in the Conservation of Contemporary Art Research project and the recently established PhD & Postdoctoral research network.
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