Artist Diana Thater and CMACC’s Cass Fino-Radin On Redbuilding an Archive After Disaster

Last month marked the first anniversary of the fires in Los Angeles that burned over 37 square miles and destroyed 6,837 structures. Many were artist studios, and among them was the studio of Diana Thater, the brilliant video artist who lost her entire archive in the fire. Luckily, this story has a semi-happy ending, as she has begun working with New York’s newest cultural institution, CANYON, which is dedicated to time-based art. We caught up with Thater and Cass Fino-Radin, head of the Canyon Media Art Conservation Center...