BRIAN CASTRIOTA

archaeological & time-based media art conservator





PUBLICATIONS

2023
The Enfolding Object of Conservation: Artwork Identity, Authenticity, and Documentation

In Conservation of Contemporary Art: Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Practice, eds. R. van de Vall and V. van Saaze. Cham, Swtizerland: Springer Nature. ISBN: 9783031423567 / 9783031423574



2023
In the Shadow of the State: Collecting Performance at IMMA and Institutions of Care in the Irish Context

Co-authored with Claire Walsh. In Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Conservation and Care, eds. H. Hölling, J. P. Feldman and E. Magnin, 147–168. London: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003309987-10



2023
Authenticity

Co-authored with Stephanie Auffret, Hélia Marçal and Renata F. Peters. In Dictionary of Museology, ed. F. Mairesse, 37–41. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003206040



2023
Conservation (Preventive)

Co-authored with Hélia Marçal, Stephanie Auffret, and Renata F. Peters. In Dictionary of Museology, ed. F. Mairesse, 90–94. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003206040



2023
Conservation (Remedial)

Co-authored with Hélia Marçal, Renata F. Peters, and Stephanie Auffret. In Dictionary of Museology, ed. F. Mairesse, 94–97. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003206040



2021
Instantiation, Actualization, and Absence: The Continuation and Safeguarding of Katie Paterson’s Future Library (2014–2114)

Journal of the American Institute of Conservation, Volume 4, Issue 2-3, 145–160. DOI: 10.1080/01971360.2021.1977058



2021
Variants of Concern: Authenticity, Conservation, and the Type-Token Distinction 

Studies in Conservation, Volume 67, Issue 1–2, 72–83. DOI: 10.1080/00393630.2021.1974237



2021
Object Trouble: Constructing and Performing Artwork Identity in the Museum 

ArtMatters International Journal for Technical Art History, Special Issue 1, 12–22.


2021
Always Already Fragment: Integrity, Deferral, and Possibility in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage

Co-authored with Hélia Marçal. In Das Fragment im digitalen Zeitalter. Möglichkeiten und Grenzen neuer Techniken in der Restaurierung, eds. U. Schädler-Saub and A. Weyer, 63–78. Berlin: Hendrik Baßler Verlag.


2021
On Creation and Conservation: Neil Clements and Brian Castriota in Conversation

In Fellow Traveller, edited by Dominic Paterson, np. Glasgow: Hunterian Art Gallery.


2021
Ringing From the Darkness: On Lithophones

In Pala Issue 1: Dark Matter, eds. A. Sutcliffe & K. Timney. 72–81. Glasgow: Pala Press.


2021
Fifty-Plus Years of On-Site Metals Conservation at Sardis: Correlating Treatment Efficacy and Implementing New Approaches

Co-authored with Emily Frank. In Transcending Boundaries: Integrated Approaches to Conservation. ICOM-CC 19th Triennial Conference Preprints, Beijing, 17–21 May 2021, ed. J. Bridgland. Paris: International Council of Museums.


2019
Authenticity, Identity, and Essentialism: Reframing Conservation Practice

In What Is the Essence of Conservation? Papers from the ICOM-CC and ICOFOM Session at the 25th General Conference Held in Kyoto, 4 September 2019, eds. F. Mairesse and R. F. Peters, 39–48. Paris: ICOFOM.



2019
How Sustainable is File-Based Video Art? Exploring the Foundations for Best Practice Development

Co-authored with Sophie Bunz and Flaminia Fortuanto. Electronic Media Review, Volume 4.


2019
Securing a Futurity: Artwork Identity and Authenticity in the Conservation of Contemporary Art

Ph.D. thesis, Univeristy of Glasgow.


2016
Mediating Meanings: Conservation of the Staffordshire Hoard

Postmedieval, Volume 7, Issue 3, 369-77.


Forthcoming
Philisophical Issues in the Conservation of Contemporary Art

Co-edited with Glenn Wharton and Rebecca Gordon. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute (2024)





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