Monica Marchesi
Short Bio
Monica Marchesi, conservator at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Monica Marchesi is an art historian and a conservator at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (SMA). She strongly advocates for the value of practice-driven research, where material and technical investigation, active conservation, cultural heritage management, conservation theory, and museum studies intersect. Her primary interest is in the reprinting of photographic artworks as a conservation strategy. She has delivered numerous presentations, authored peer-reviewed publications, and was awarded a PhD degree from the Leiden University (2017) on this subject.
Over the past decade, she was actively involved in several research projects the Photographs and Preservation. How to save photographic works of art for the future? within the NWO research program Science4Arts (2012 – 2016); Rineke Dijkstra: Exploring the reprinting of color photography as a conservation strategy (2019 -2021). In 2024 she was awarded a NWO Museum grant for the project Print on Demand: Printing digital-based artworks through a collaborative mode of production.
Title and Abstract
Title: Reprinting as a game-changer
Abstract:
The reprinting of photographic artworks can take various forms: as a conservation strategy where, discoloured photographs are replaced with pristine ones, as an artistic practice that allows photographic prints to be exhibited to the public without protective glazing, and as a collaborative mode of production between the artist and the museum. This talk will look back and share experiences from the past ten years, focusing on potential gains or losses during the reprinting process. It will also reflect on how, through reprinting, the speaker’s views on conservation have evolved: from an approach aimed mainly at preventing or slowing down change to one in which documenting or curating change becomes equally relevant.
Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi
Short Bio
Elif Rongen-Kaynakçi is the Curator of Silent film at Eye Filmmuseum. Born in Istanbul, Turkey, she completed her BA at the Bosphorus University in English Literature, followed by MA in Film & TV Studies at the Univ. of Amsterdam. In 1998 she completed the Archimedia course organized by the EU Media Desk. Since 1999 at Eye, she has worked on the discovery, restoration and presentation of many presumed lost films, often starring forgotten actresses.
On a daily basis she is responsible for some of Eye’s internationally acclaimed collections such as the Desmet Collection, the Mutoscope&Biograph Collection, the Bits&Pieces Collection. Her duties involve the preservation as well as the worldwide presentation of these films in all formats.
Rongen-Kaynakci is directly involved with the programs of international archival festivals Il Cinema Ritrovato, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto and other events dedicated to cinema heritage. She has served on the steering committee of the WFHI (Women and Film History International) from 2015 to 2022, and co-organized the 2019 Women and the Silent Screen Conference at Eye. She is also one of the three curators of ‘Cinema’s First Nasty Women’; a bluray-box with 99 films and a booklet, released in December 2022 by Kino Lorber.
Title and Abstract
Title: Rediscovering the colours of early cinema: a journey through Eye Filmmuseum’s silent film restorations
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