This document summarizes a grant agreement from the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme for a project on digital preservation. It also discusses risks to cultural property and the need to identify, estimate, communicate, and manage those risks regularly. Finally, it provides information on the 2005 artwork "Subtitled Public" by Rafael Lozano Hemmer, which uses computer vision and projection mapping to generate and exchange subtitles for people in an exhibition space.

1. GRANT AGREEMENT: 601138 | SCHEME FP7 ICT 2011.4.3
Promoting and Enhancing Reuse of Information throughout the Content Lifecycle taking account of Evolving
Semantics [Digital Preservation]
“This project has received funding from the European Union’s
Seventh Framework Programme for research, technological
development and demonstration under grant agreement no601138”.
Pip Laurenson, Patricia Falcao (Tate)

2. To identify risks comprehensively,
To estimate correctly their magnitude and associated
uncertainties
To devise cost-effective solutions to treat those risks
To communicate clearly with stakeholders throughout this
process
To repeat the process regularlyestaw
Agnes Brokerhof (Collection Risk Management – The Next frontier; presented at the CMA Cultural Property
Protection Conference, Ottawa, 2006)

3. ‘much of the usefulness of cultural property
risk assessment arises from forcing careful
thinking about how values are impacted by
change’
Robert Waller (Conservation Risk Assessment: Matching Approach with Purpose. 15th Triennial Conference,
New Delhi: 22-26 September 2008 : Preprints. Allied Publishers, 2008.)

4. ● How was the work produced? Which technologies are
involved in the production process and why?
● What will be provided to Tate as part of the
acquisition? Are these the best elements for
preservation?
● Is there a need for any specific hardware?
● What are the display requirements (for instance
gallery dimensions, projection dimensions, wall
colours)?

9. Rafael Lozano Hemmer
Subtitled Public (2005)

12. Subtitled Public consists of an empty exhibition space
where visitors are detected by a computerised
surveillance system. When people enter the space, the
system generates a subtitle for each person and
projects it onto him or her: the subtitle is chosen at
random from a list of all the verbs conjugated in the
third person. The only way of getting rid of a subtitle is
to touch another person, which leads to the two
subtitles being exchanged. The project exists in
Spanish, English and French versions.
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (http://www.lozano-hemmer.com/subtitled_public.php)

15. Diagram by Klaus Rechert, University of Freiburg

16. Thank you!