University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California)

The UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will catalogue and digitize those elements of its Conceptual Art Study Center collection that have not yet been so treated. Included are the Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Archive, the Ant Farm Archive, the Museum of Contemporary Art Archive, the Alice Hutchins Friends of Fluxus Archive, and the James Lee Byars Collection, all of which help tell the story of the emergence and enduring influence of conceptual art in the late 1960s and 1970s. The materials include paper, films, and videos in a variety of formats. The project will allow the grantee to better manage its resources; improve care of originals by minimizing their handling; and prepare it to provide direct public access to the collections, perhaps through the community-source collection management system CollectionSpace, developed by UC Berkeley’s Department of Information Services and Technology in collaboration with partners at other museums and universities.