FW: Exit Art Archivist Job Opportunity

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From: Richard Rinehart <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 15:37:35 -0800
To: [email protected]
Subject: Exit Art Archivist Job Opportunity


Exit Art Archivist Job Description

Since its founding in 1982, Exit Art has presented the work of over 2,000
artists and grown from a pioneering alternative art space into a model
cultural center with a substantial reputation for curatorial innovation,
depth of programming in diverse media, and especially for bringing to public
attention the work of important unknown and under-recognized artists. Over
the past two decades, Exit Art has accumulated and preserved its rich
history of artists' materials and is now at a critical stage: making its
archival materials available to the public and online. Exit Art receives
thousands of requests each year from scholars, curators, doctoral students,
and artists for information that is currently only accessible by
appointment.

Currently, Exit Art seeks to hire an Archive Manager who will work closely
with the Executive Director and Curatorial staff to conserve, digitize,
describe, and make available online the unique cultural materials in Exit
Art's archives.

The conservation and collection management of the physical archives include:

E Label, catalogue, and store the contents of approximately 5,000
exhibitions files into archival-quality file folders and document boxes
E Organizing and storing oversized original exhibition invitations, poste=
rs,
catalogues and didactics
E Cleaning, labeling and organizing slides and 4x5 negatives
E Transferring, labeling and organizing videotape from VHS, 3/4", DVCAM,
Hi-8 and Betacam to DigiBeta
E Digitizing, labeling and organizing audio cassette tape and creating
archival re-masters on CD-R (this will be done during the digitization stage
of the project)
E Implement a FileMaker Pro driven database that will create a record of =
the
materials in the Exit Art archive
E Work with on-staff technologist to prepare for the digitization of the
archive making records available on-line

Job Description:

E Oversees the conservation and collection management of the physical
archive as listed above
E Supervises the organization and maintenance of the Exit Art Archive and
the archive room
E Helps to prepare budget reports and financials for archive-related
expenses and grants
E Responsible for purchase and maintenance of all archive equipment
E Supervises archive interns
E Acts as a liaison between advisory panel and Exit Art
E Responsible for reporting the progress of the archive project and
implementing a system analysis for the public using the physical and online
archive

Requirements:

Candidates must be self-starters, goal-oriented and have a strong interest
in archiving conceptual and inter-media art; Should have experience in
organizing, analyzing and conserving paper files, slides, photographs and
video and database management; Strong organizational, leadership and
management abilities; Proficient with both Mac and PC platforms; MS Office,
FileMaker Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator and archive digitization techniques is
highly recommended; BA in Library Science or similar field highly
preferable.

Start date is immediately. This is a full-time, salaried position with
benefits. Salary is commensurate with experience. Interested applicants
should send their resume and cover letter to Jodi Hanel, by email to
[email protected] or by mail to Exit Art, 475 Tenth Avenue, New York, NY
10018.

No phone calls, please.



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