Time-Based Media Art Conservation Fellowship

The Role

The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) is seeking applications for a Time-Based Media Conservation Fellow for a period of 12 months for the purposes of supporting the IMMA Collection team in their ongoing efforts to advance conservation practices around IMMA’s time-based media (TBM) artwork holdings. IMMA is home to Ireland’s National Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, with over 3,500 artworks by Irish and international artists. The Collection is firmly rooted in the present and important contemporary works are added each year. A significant portion of these works, approximately 120, fall within the category of time-based media, and involve video, sound, slide and film, software, digital source files, and/or live performance. Since 2018 IMMA has been implementing new procedures and infrastructure to support the long-term care and display of its TBM Collection; this includes a viewing and condition assessment workstation and improved and centralised digital storage. The TBM Conservation Fellow will work closely with and report to the IMMA Collection team of curators, registrar, and external TBM supervisory conservator in the day-to-day processing of new acquisitions, display, and loan of TBM Collection works, Collection research, and development and implementation of new procedures and best practices.

Closing date for receipt of applications:  16 July 2025

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Cuspóir an Róil:

Tá Áras Nua-Ealaíne na hÉireann (IMMA) ag lorg iarratas le haghaidh Comhaltacht i gCaomhnú Meán Ambhunaithe ar feadh tréimhse 12 mhí chun tacú le foireann Bhailiúchán IMMA ina n-iarrachtaí leanúnacha cleachtais chaomhantais maidir le sealbhúcháin meán ambhunaithe (TBM) IMMA a chur chun cinn. Tá Bailiúchán Náisiúnta Nua-Ealaíne agus Ealaíne Comhaimseartha na hÉireann lonnaithe in IMMA, agus tá breis agus 3,500 saothar ealaíne ann le healaíontóirí Éireannacha agus idirnáisiúnta. Tá an bailiúcháin fréamhaithe go láidir san am i láthair agus cuirtear saothair thábhachtacha nua leis an mbailiúchán gach bliain. Tagann cuid shuntasach de na saothair sin, thart ar 120, laistigh de chatagóir na meán ambhunaithe, agus baineann siad le físeán, fuaim, sleamhnáin agus scannáin, bogearraí, comhaid foinse digití, agus/nó léiriú beo. Ó 2018 i leith, tá gnáthaimh agus bonneagar nua á gcur chun feidhme ag an IMMA chun tacú le cúram fadtéarmach agus taispeáint a bhailiúcháin TBM; áirítear leis sin stáisiún oibre measúnachta féachana agus reachta agus stóráil dhigiteach fheabhsaithe agus láraithe. Oibreoidh an Comhaltacht i gCaomhnú TBM go dlúth le foireann coimeádaithe Bhailiúchán IMMA, leis an gcláraitheoir, agus le caomhnóir maoirseachta seachtrach TBM agus tuairisceoidh sé/sí dóibh i bpróiseáil laethúil sealbhúchán nua, taispeána agus iasachtaí shaothair an Bhailiúcháin TBM, taighde ar an mBailiúchán, agus forbairt agus cur chun feidhme nósanna imeachta agus dea-chleachtas nua.

Is é an spriocdháta chun iarratais a fháil: 16 Iúil 2025