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Curator Zoe Ryan provides a behind-the-scenes overview of her exhibition, which features three of the the most visionary fashion designers working today. Explore the exhibition: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/....

This exhibition runs at the Art Institute of Chicago through September 3, 2012.

"UNFIXED: Material Challenges in Contemporary Art" The Art Institute of Chicago.

Bringing together internationally renowned scholars, museum professionals, and artists, this symposium stages an interdisciplinary exchange on the questions and challenges of materiality in 20th- and 21st-century art and museum practices.

Discussions of the materialities of recent art practices have been circulating since the 1960s and have become increasingly relevant to museums since the 1990s as more ephemeral works, including time-based media, have entered collections. Our current moment is drawing forth a generation of new perspectives, tools, and priorities that re-engage established questions and elicit new ones. Twenty-first-century advances in art conservation and science have energized a renewed focus on object-driven inquiry in the disciplines of art history and curating, expanding traditional canons and breaking conventions with an increasingly global vision. Alongside these evolutions, experimental artworks of the 20th century continue to age and create new urgencies that test the protocols and ethics of conservation practices. As our fields take significant steps in new directions, this is an opportune moment to nurture a conversation about ontology and conceptualism, preservation, and ethics.

This event is sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and hosted through the Chicago Objects Study Initiative (COSI) and the new Time-Based Media Initiative at the Art Institute. It is co-organized jointly by the museum’s departments of Academic Engagement and Research, Conservation and Science, and Modern and Contemporary Art.