Denouncing Salvage: The seperation of commercial salvage from Underwater Cultural Heritage

Commercial salvage has come to have a huge effect on Underwater Cultural Heritage.  Although this issue has been recognised and addressed with the 2001 UNESCO Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage, lack of comprehensive ratification means there is still work to be done. Conservators must recognize the part they have to play in this issue, as the dangers are ones that our practice should strive to work against.

This post refers to coursework done for ARCLG141 (2015-16), one of the core courses of the UCL MA  Principles of Conservation. As part of their assessed work for this course, students were asked to design and produce a poster communicating specific aspects of conservation. We hope you enjoy our work! Comments are most welcome.

Facing Value(s): Minimal Intervention and Digital Art

Minimum intervention is a somewhat embattled concept but it remains one of the guiding principles of contemporary conservation theory. This paper explores the idea that minimal intervention is a powerful analytical tool that can be used to identify and understand the many value systems that comprise a work of art. This is especially true for works of performative digital art where the conceptual challenges of digital media are further complicated by inherent material weaknesses and the immediacy of performance ontologies. When devising treatment strategies for composite works such as these, the consideration of what is minimal requires a conservator to assess and weigh the many values involved and, in effect, locate the identity of a work. 

This post refers to coursework done for ARCLG141 (2015-16), one of the core courses of the UCL MA  Principles of Conservation.

As part of their assessed work for this course, students were asked to design and produce a poster communicating specific aspects of conservation. We hope you enjoy our work! Comments are most welcome.  The content is the sole responsibility of its author and and it may not correspond to the views of the UCL Institute of Archaeology or any of the institutions it may happen to discuss.

Vandalism or Art? A Look at Two Deliberately Damaged Vases

This poster uses two specific cases to illustrate the conflict and subtle differences between vandalism and art in the 21^st century. The differences between vandalism and art seem increasingly unclear in some 21^st century contexts. Conservators can only respond appropriately if they understand the subtle nuances of these differences. It aims to draw future conservators' attention to modern-day vandalism and help them think about their roles and responsibilities in this conflict.

This post refers to coursework done for ARCLG141 (2015-16), one of the core courses of the UCL MA  Principles of Conservation.
As part of their assessed work for this course, students were asked to design and produce a poster communicating specific aspects of conservation. We hope you enjoy our work! Comments are most welcome.  
The content is the sole responsibility of its author and and it may not correspond to the views of the UCL Institute of Archaeology or any of the institutions it may happen to discuss.

Good content, better public outreach

This poster is designed to emphasise the importance of video content, which is used as a conservation public outreach tool on the Internet. Films and educational videos of varying quality, produced to raise public interest in conservation, can be found on the websites of different museums. However, different video content has different effects.

This post refers to coursework done for ARCLG141 (2015-16), one of the core courses of the UCL MA  Principles of Conservation.
As part of their assessed work for this course, students were asked to design and produce a poster communicating specific aspects of conservation. We hope you enjoy our work! Comments are most welcome.  
The content is the sole responsibility of its author and and it may not correspond to the views of the UCL Institute of Archaeology or any of the institutions it may happen to discuss.

WORKING TOGETHER: COLLABORATION BETWEEN EXPERTS AND COMMUNITIES

Despite the current wide diversity of museums covering the most varied topics one can imagine, the museum is still generally accepted among the general public to be a big building that houses art that nobody can touch, a safe house for objects to be suspended in time and guarded for eternity. Nevertheless, there has been a recent shift in the approach to creating and managing heritage in museums, in which the authority and power of decision-making has moved from experts in the museum, to the communities who originally own the heritage.

This post refers to coursework done for ARCLG141 (2015-16), one of the core courses of the UCL MA  Principles of Conservation. As part of their assessed work for this course, students were asked to design and produce a poster communicating specific aspects of conservation. We hope you enjoy our work! Comments are most welcome.