Facilitators: Diego Mellado Martínez and Ana Lizeth Mata Delgado
Organizer: Manuel del Castillo Negrete National School of Preservation, Restoration and Museography, INAH
Learn and come to understand the particularities of media and new media in digital artworks, especially from a more technological perspective, in order to more holistically address the preservation and restoration of this kind of art. The information that will be acquired by participants will give them a clearer, broader view of the production and preservation of digital art and new media, which can be applied in their academic and labor practices, allowing them to develop new perspectives, including technical criteria and assessments for the preservation and restoration of digital artworks and new media.
Diego Mellado Martínez is a telecommunications engineer and has a Master’s in Media Art Histories. Since 2009, he has worked as an engineer and project manager in the studio of Daniel Canogar, as well as collaborating with other artists and galleries in the design, production, documentation and installation of new media pieces. Since 2015, he has researched the preservation of digital artworks and new media from the perspective of the artist’s studio and collaborated with public and private institutions in the preservation of their collections, having participated in the preservation of the video art collection at the Centro de Arte 2 de Mayo and giving new media workshops at the National Anthropology and History Institute’s Manuel del Castillo Negrete National School of Preservation, Restoration and Museography. He is currently preparing the Media Art Preservation Institute for the Danube University Krems in Austria, where he presented his project “Software- and Data-based art conservation from the artist studio practice: Engineering approaches to documentation as a tool for artwork definition and conservation” in 2020.
Ana Lizeth Mata Delgado has a Master’s in Art History with a specialty in contemporary art from the UNAM and a Bachelor’s in Restoration from the National Anthropology and History Institute’s Manuel del Castillo Negrete National School of Preservation, Restoration and Museography (ENCRyM). Since 2007, she has been a research professor, giving the Modern and Contemporary Art Restoration seminar-workshop at the ENCRyM. She is also the coordinator of the “Registration, Diagnostic and Preservation of Urban Art” and “Documentation, Registration and Material Experimentation in Modern and Contemporary Art” research projects. In 2015, she conducted a research residency at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid. She has coordinated and taught a variety of academic events and courses, in collaboration with institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona, the ENCRyM, the MUAC, the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo and the Getty Conservation Institute. She has participated in the mounting and diagnostic of many exhibitions and has worked as a conservator/restorer for galleries and public and private collections and has collaborated with artist’s studios. She is the author of a variety of articles and has given many talks that are focused on the preservation and restoration of modern and contemporary art, as well as graffiti and street art. She is currently the academic coordinator of the ENCRyM’s Bachelor’s in Restoration program.
