Farah Wardani completed her MA in art history (20th century) at Goldsmiths College, London, in 2001. In 2007, she cowrote the book Indonesian Women Artists: The Curtain Opens with Carla Bianpoen and Wulan Dirgantoro. From 2007 to March 2015 she was the executive director of the Indonesian Visual Art Archive (IVAA) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Since March 2015 she has worked as Assistant Director for the Resource Centre at the National Gallery Singapore, managing and developing the museum’s reference and archival material collection.
Since the 1950s, there has been an active production of experimental film, animation, and video art in Asia. Yet, much of this work has not been consistently conserved or shared with the public due to the lack of accessible archives or organized collections dedicated to its preservation and dissemination. The conference “The Archival Impulse: Collecting…
