Every Disc, Every Bit of Data: Conservation of Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s Every Shot, Every Episode

The presentation on Monday evening, November 9, 2020, by Jonathan Farbowitz and Sasha Arden covered the multi-year, interdepartmental endeavor to conserve Jennifer and Kevin McCoy’s Every Shot, Every Episode, 2001—a custom digital video playback installation with 277 video compact discs—and to return it to exhibition readiness for the first time in more than a decade. The presenters were also joined by artists Jennifer and Kevin McCoy as well as Doug Eklund and Virginia McBride (co-curators of Pictures, Revisited) and Conservator in Charge Nora W. Kennedy, for the Q&A session. Jonathan Farbowitz is the Associate Conservator of Time-Based Media in the Department of Photograph Conservation at The Met. Sasha Arden is the Rachel and Jonathan Wilf/Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Time-Based Media Art Conservation at The Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. © 2020 The Metropolitan Museum of Art