The change of the materiality of art through transports: studies on detection and discrimination of transport- and age-related damages on art works

本研究项目的目的是研究和实现一种精确的方法，用于艺术品运输相关损坏的三维检测和分类。由于私营和公共部门展览的增加，近年来文化财产的运输量显著增加。在运输过程中，艺术品不仅会因搬运过程中的事故而损坏，还会因气候条件变化或振动等微小变化而损坏。跨学科的研究项目，重点是通过艺术运输及其原因产生实质性变化的客观数据的可能性。在第一部分中，这是通过系统地结合各种传感器技术来检测微地形变化来实现的。在拟议的项目第二阶段，两种使用的测量方法现在将被进一步探索，结合在一起，并发展成为保护科学的实用工具。第一次可以根据客观数据评估运输等因素引起的艺术变化，为修复文献提供了全新的工具。根据与一家著名的艺术品运输公司合作的数据，对艺术品运输的现行标准条件和流程进行了评估，并在必要时进行了改进。与此同时，剪切变形术将被特别探讨其对艺术作品本身的影响（临界性），并进一步优化。基于这些结果，它旨在为损害评估和预防性保护引入新的方法，并启动关于艺术品处理的差异化哲学和伦理讨论。

The aim of this research project is to study and implement a precise method for three-dimensional detection and classification of transport-related damages at artworks. Due to the increase of exhibitions in private and public sectors, the amount of transportation of cultural property has increased remarkably in recent years. When transported artworks are not only damaged by accidents during handling, but also by micro changes, for example, caused by changing climatic conditions or vibrations. The interdisciplinary research project, focusses on possibilities to generate objective data for substantive changes by art transports and their causes. In the first part, this was achieved by systematically combining various sensor technologies for detecting microtopographic changes. In the proposed second phase of the project both used measurement methods are now to be further explored, coupled together and developed into a practical tool for conservation science. For the first time, the changes of art induced by transportation and other factors can be evaluated based on objective data, providing a completely new instrument for restoration documentation. Based on the data in collaboration with a renowned art transport company current standard conditions and processes of art-transport are evaluated and, where necessary, enhanced. In parallel, the shearography is to be explored in particular with regard to their influence on the work of art itself (criticality) and further optimized. Based on the results, it is intended to introduce new ways both for the assessment of damages and preventive conservation, as well as to initiate a differentiated philosophical and ethical discussion about the handling of artworks.