Modern Materials and Contemporary Art Working Group
Triennial Programme 2008-2011

Organisation of the Working Group
The Modern Materials and Contemporary Art working group will have one coordinator and two assistant coordinators.

Production and Distribution of newsletters
Newsletters will be produced at least once a year with additional issues written to cover large conferences and/or events of relevance to the Modern Materials and Contemporary Art working group. The final newsletter in this period will contain the working group’s programme for the next ICOM-CC Triennial Conference (Lisbon 2011).

Organisational goals for the 2008-2011 triennium
• To increase our membership to over 150.
• To organize an interim meeting in the summer of 2010 in conjunction with the Training and Education working group to discuss the needs of training and education for the conservation of modern and contemporary art. It is intended to hold this meeting in June 2010 in Maastricht (to run straight after the Modern Art: Who Cares II? Conference in Amsterdam).
• To establish best use of the new website for member information, dialogue exchange and general networking.

Activities and research areas highlighted during the 2008-2011 triennium
• Development of the optimum working relationship with INCCA – the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art.
• Analysis, characterization, and conservation of modern materials used in works of art, especially plastics.
• Case studies of artists working methods and processes, including aging processes and conservation implications.
• Documentation of contemporary art. Possibly seek a joint session on this with the Documentation working group at the ICOM-CC triennial conference in 2011.
• Preventive conservation studies: storage and display.
• Conservation issues of outdoor and public works of art.