Tzu-Chuan Lin

<p>This week on the show we’re visiting with another emerging professional in the time-based media conservation field. Tzu-Chuan Lin is currently finishing up a masters degree focused in conservation of new media and digital information at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart, and in his studies there, he’s been conducting some very needed research on the documentation and conservation of artworks that use a tool called Max/MSP – which a sort of visual programming language that has been around for decades and has a high likelihood of being found in any collection of time-based media art that includes interactive installations. Before starting his conservation studies in Stuttgart, Tzu-Chuan worked as a project coordinator in the collections management department at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and together with his collaborator Yuhsien Chen, who we’ll be having on the show in the very near future, has put a lot of work into building local time-based media conservation expertise in Taiwan. We covered so much ground in this chat – tune in to hear Tzu-Chuan’s story!</p>