Jill Sterrett (SFMOMA) and Megan Winget (UT Austin) will join the Born Digital expert meeting today

Megan Winget is a professor and researcher at the University of Texas in Austin. She is invited to the Netherlands by the Netherlands Institute of Heritage (Erfgoed Nederland) to attend the expert meeting Born Digital Art Challenges preservation (to be held at NIMk on June 28th). During her visit she will participate in the meeting actively, presenting some of her work and visit a number of centers and institutions specialized collecting, preserving and providing access to video-games, new media art and performance art.

Jill Sterrett is head of Preservation and Collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art -SFMOMA-. She will visit Amsterdam invited by Virtueel Platform's visitors program to attend the Born Digital Art Challenges preservation expert meeting and collaborate with the Born Digital research project. She will also attend to the SBMK-Dag (Stichting Behoud Moderne Kunst-Foundation for the conservation of contemporary art-) in Utrecht to give a lecture on the effects of new conservation strategies for the museum organizations.

Their presentations are closely related to the research project lead by Annet Dekker commissioned by Virtueel Platform with the support of NIMk, SBMK and DEN (read more) that studies the situation of cultural items “born digital” (that is with no analogic-physical original or equivalent, but originally created in a digital format) in the Dutch museums; how many of those items are there and what is the current situation? How to establish an international network of museums and develop a conservation strategy for the art born digital.

With Jill Sterrett bringing the experienced voice of the director of conservation of a well renown modern art museum and Megan Winget contributing with the voice of an authorized researcher on the subject their visit will add extra value to the results of the Born Digital research project.