Craig Scheuer
Audio Visual Technician, Carnegie Museum of Art
My name is Craig Scheuer, and I was brought into the Art Preparation and Installation department at the Carnegie Museum of Art as the Audio Visual Technician for the
2013 Carnegie International. Because I had an existing relationship with the Exhibitions department, my transition into the position was a fairly painless one, but even with a lot of audiovisual experience there was a very steep learning curve when helping to build a show with the magnitude of the
International. Working with contemporary artists is always a surprising job, and during the lead up to the show, changes and crises came at a mile a minute. I’m going to share with you some of the most important lessons that I learned, and walk you through one of the installations that I worked on in the hopes that my experiences may be of benefit to others who find themselves working on such an enormous exhibition. A lot of this is common sense or things that any art handler would already do, but I’ve always been of the opinion that fundamentals bear repeating.
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