Conserving and Exhibiting the Works of Nam June Paik Symposium: Talk with Curators John G. Hanhardt and Jon Huffman 

Smithsonian American Art Museum Objects Conservator L.H. (Hugh) Shockey, Jr., and Curator of Film and Media Arts Michael Mansfield discuss the challenges and triumphs of conserving and exhibiting media arts in the twenty-first century. 

In this studio conservators restore the surface of paintings to a condition that most closely resembles an earlier unaltered or undamaged state. The two most common procedures that take place here are cleaning and inpainting.

Talks from the symposium "Conserving and Exhibiting the Works of Nam June Paik" on June 26, 2013 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Talks from the symposium "Conserving and Exhibiting the Works of Nam June Paik" on June 26, 2013 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum.