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9:30am CST

Essential Yet Challenged: Decentralized Model of Film Preservation in China

Thursday December 5, 2024 9:30am - 10:00am CST

Unlike in the United States, China's film preservation efforts have long exhibited a centralized model. As a continuation of cultural control from the planned economy era, film preservation in China has been monopolized by a single institution, with minimal involvement from the private sector and academia. However, with the dissolution of the planned economy, the advancement of digital technology, the rise of private film collections, and the influence of educational film archive concepts from Taiwan, new forces are gradually emerging that may challenge this centralized model. This presentation aims to review and analyze the current state of film preservation in China, outlining the unique value and significance of a decentralized model in the contemporary Chinese context.

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Yizhou Wei

Film Archive Studies Center, Xiamen University

Yizhou Wei (Winand) holds a BA in Theatre, Film, Television, and Literature from Xiamen University and an MLIS from National Taiwan University. Currently pursuing a PhD at Xiamen University, he specializes in film preservation and restoration and serves as a research assistant at... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 9:30am - 10:00am CST
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Building Professional Mentorship in the Field

Thursday December 5, 2024 9:30am - 10:30am CST

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We believe that the mentor/mentee relationship is mutually enriching and that mentorship – formal or informal – is critical to an inclusive profession. You can be a mentor at any stage in your career. Over the past few years AMIA has worked to expand mentorship within the community, both through the Pathways Fellowship and our Mentorship pilot program. How do we inspire new mentors and mentor advisors, and what resources do they need in order to feel capable and confident in this new role. How can we expand mentorshp - formally and informally - throughout AMIA and the field. Panelists, including advisors, mentors, and mentees from the program, will lead a discussion about what's next. Led by Ashley Franks-McGill and C Diaz, AMIA's Mentorship Coordinators.

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C Díaz

ENTRE Film Center

C. Díaz (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist and radical archivist from the Rio Grande Valley, TX, where they co-founded ENTRE Film Center & Regional Archive in 2021. C’s work explores the relationship between cerebral landscapes and the natural environment through the weaving... Read More →

Ashley Franks-McGill

Duplitech

Thursday December 5, 2024 9:30am - 10:30am CST
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9:30am CST

Looming Analog Sunset: Ensuring Long-Term Preservation of Your Organization's Past

Thursday December 5, 2024 9:30am - 10:30am CST

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We are at a specific time in archival history when technology to digitize and create discoverability over these materials is at a mature place where scripts, video, and film can be searched for reuse, historical preservation, story telling and monetization. We are also at a moment when the playback machines of historical audio tape and video tape are getting more and more scarce, along with the engineering expertise to run them. This session, comprised of four leaders who have worked in a number of different capacities and organizations in the fields of archiving, digital and physical storage, media supply chains, and preservation, share their insights as to why this is the moment to digitize your archive. They will discuss how the perfect storm of playback machine obsolescence and degrading assets also presents the perfect opportunity to realize legitimate value from archival media content.

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Carin Forman

AWS

Carin Forman is a Global Partner Leads at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Media, Entertainment, Games and Sports (MEGS). Carin's focus is on partner strategy and enablement and helping customers modernize their content supply chains and unlock new value from their archives. With over... Read More →

Andrea Kalas

Paramount Pictures

Andrea is Senior Vice President of Archives at Paramount where she oversees restoration, digitization, digital archives and archive innovation. She was Head of Preservation at the British Film Institute where she preserved the early films of David Lean and built a below freezing film... Read More →

Heidi Shakespeare

Memnon Archiving Services

Linda Tadic

Founder/CEO, Digital Bedrock

Linda Tadic is Founder/CEO of Digital Bedrock, a managed digital preservation service. Her over 35 years’ experience includes positions at HBO, the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, ARTstor, and Pacific Film Archive. She has also taught as... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 9:30am - 10:30am CST
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9:30am CST

Human-centered AI-assisted Video Cataloging

Thursday December 5, 2024 9:30am - 10:30am CST

Session, AI Stream

This panel will present a human-centered approach to AI-assisted cataloging. Panelists from GBH Archives, working on the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, will describe the development, implementation, testing, and use of AI-based media analysis tools within workflows for item-level cataloging digital videos. Panelists include cataloging, digital ingest, and metadata operations staff who have been involved in the creation and use of AI-based cataloging tools. We will discuss the CLAMS (Computational Linguistics Applications for Multimedia Services) suite of open source AI tools, post-processing CLAMS output for use in cataloging, questions we sought to answer regarding cataloging ease and efficiency, and the results of our experiments with tool integration. We will explain how our approach and roadmap differs from initiatives seeking to make cataloging fully automatic.

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Owen King

WGBH

Caroline Mango

WGBH

Raananah Sarid-Segal

Digital Archivist, WGBH

Miranda Villesvik

WGBH

Thursday December 5, 2024 9:30am - 10:30am CST
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10:00am CST

Preserving Community Memory in the Balkans Project Report

Thursday December 5, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am CST

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In this presentation, archivists will report on the AMIA fiscally sponsored project, Preserving Community Memory in the Balkans. The project is a collaboration between archivists, artists, and cultural workers in Serbia and the United States to develop preservation initiatives and foster regional preservation networks. The region is rich in culture and history, yet there is little infrastructure or funding to collect or preserve the abandoned and community-held archival collections that exist in former factories, homes, and private collections. To address this challenge, independent, volunteer-led organizations are taking the lead. The speakers will discuss the work of SKVER, a regional archive in eastern Serbia; the evolution of Timok Digital, SKVER’s regional annual education and training workshop; the development of Serbia’s first Memory Lab; the Serbian translation of the Community Archiving Workshop's "La Lotería Audiovisual"; and the work of Rainbow Ignite, an organization collecting and safeguarding documentation of LGBTQ+ history in Serbia.

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Siobhan Hagan

AVMPI Coordinator, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Siobhan holds her M.A. in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and has worked in a variety of collecting organizations throughout her career, including the UCLA Library, the National Aquarium, and the DC Public Library. She is now the... Read More →

Kelli Hix

Project Director, Mapping the Magnetic Media Landscape; Hands On Training in Analog Audiovisual Playback Equipment, BAVC Media

Kelli Shay Hix is the Director of the projects: Hands On Training in Analog Video Playback Equipment, and Mapping the Magnetic Media Landscape at BAVC Media. She is also a core member of the Community Archiving Workshop collective (CAW), and a Fulbright Specialist completing a project... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 10:00am - 10:30am CST
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11:00am CST

AV Processing Strategies: the Holder and de Lavallade Papers

Thursday December 5, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am CST

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The Geoffrey Holder and Carmen de Lavallade papers at Emory University’s Rose Library is a 307 linear feet collection showcasing the artistic legacies of two Black pioneers in dance, choreography, visual arts, and theater. Media material in the collection covers a significant array of performances, rehearsals, and artistic research that spans across VHS tapes, film reels, CDs, and Betacam tapes totaling 1957 items across 46 boxes. This presentation will discuss strategies, lessons learned, and successes in managing this media-rich collection amid COVID-19 challenges, detailing AV inventory creation and effective arrangement and description strategies. It will also discuss the ways Rose Library's leadership and existing policies and procedures supported the process and how this collection highlighted areas of improvement in our documentation practices. Attendees will gain insights into managing large-scale AV projects and promoting inclusive archival practices, both vital for preserving the cultural heritage of performing artists.

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Anicka Austin

Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library

Anicka Austin is an Atlanta-based artist who works primarily with experimental movement and archival material. She has a Master of Science in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is currently a collections processing archivist at Emory University’s... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am CST
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11:00am CST

Archiving Television: A Preview

Thursday December 5, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST

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The Archiving Television panel brings together a selection of the authors from the forthcoming anthology, currently in production (University of Georgia Press, Spring 2025). The authors will provide a cross-section of the volume, which provides new interventions, shedding light on contemporary understandings and practices of the archiving of televisual material. Cases on the panel drawn from subject areas including instructional (classroom) television, reviving from within collections, campus television, and the formation of the remarkably complete Peabody awards archives. “Archiving Television critically engages and evaluates the archives and archival processes that collect, order, and preserve elements of television as historically, culturally, socially, politically, and economically significant material. The overarching intent of this anthology is to interrogate where television as historical material “lives.” To do so, we bring together scholarship by academics, archivists, and practitioners to reflect on the processes and places that confer television with historical value.” -Lauren Bratslavsky, Introduction.

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Owen Gottlieb

Rochester Institute of Technology

Owen Gottlieb Associate Professor of Interactive Games and Media at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Founder and Director of the Interactive, Media, and Learning Lab at RIT. His research traverses interactive media for learning, narrative design, instructional media history... Read More →

Ruta Abolins

Director, Brown Media Archives, University of Georgia/Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection

Ruta Abolins is Director of the Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia Libraries. She has worked in moving image archives for the past 30 years. She currently manages a collection of over 350,000 analog audiovisual items and over 200,000... Read More →

Eric Hoyt

Associate Professor of Media and Cultural Studies, Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research

Eric Hoyt is the Kahl Family Professor of Media Production in the Department of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research focuses on the intersections between media history and the digital humanities. He is the Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film... Read More →

Hugo Ljungbäck

University of Chicago

Hugo Ljungbäck is a filmmaker, archivist, and media scholar whose work examines the intersections of queer art, experimental film and video, media archaeology, and archival studies. He is currently a PhD Student in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago, where he is... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
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Developing a National Network of Magnetic Media Preservation Training Sites

Thursday December 5, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST

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In 2019, BAVC Media began a project to provide equipment and community-centered, peer-to-peer driven training in magnetic media preservation to Host Site Partner Organizations and their communities around the United States. Five years later, over 13 Host Sites in California, New York, Missouri, Oklahoma, Hawai’i, Texas, and Maryland have participated, and approximately 45 community members have been trained. The program (supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities) offers a model for preservation training that bridges gaps between cultural workers and technicians, and offers a pathway for rigorous training outside of academic programs, internships, and apprenticeships. In this panel, BAVC Media and representatives from Host Site Partner Organizations, ENTRE Film Center and Skid Row History Museum and Archive, share the challenges, outcomes, and lessons learned from five years of the program. We encourage a lively discussion of how other organizations and individuals approach technical training in preservation.

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Tim Lake

Preservation Technician, BAVC Media

Tim joined BAVC Media in 2019 as a Preservation Technician, following audiovisual archiving internships with the DC Punk Archive and Smithsonian Archives of American Art. He studied Archive Science at University of Maryland and Audio Engineering at American University. He is now the... Read More →

C Díaz

ENTRE Film Center

Henry Apodaca

Skid Row History Museum and Archive

Kelli Hix

Project Director, Mapping the Magnetic Media Landscape; Hands On Training in Analog Audiovisual Playback Equipment, BAVC Media

Zachary Rutland

Skid Row History Museum and Archive

My name is Zach Rutland - I am an archivist for the Skid Row History Museum and Archive (LA Poverty Dept.), going on 5 years. My main drive is community-based work as it relates to archival practice, use and sustainability for the neighborhood of Skid Row. For the past 6 years, I... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
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11:00am CST

Lessons Learned from the Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship

Thursday December 5, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST

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In 2018, the American Archive of Public Broadcasting launched the Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship, designed to provide students at archives and information science graduate programs with the opportunity to learn about audiovisual materials by digitizing at-risk tapes from public broadcasting institutions. The program was revived for a new round of Fellowships in 2022, but the long impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and changes in the digital preservation landscape provided additional challenges for the Fellowship model as originally designed.

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Rebecca Fraimow

GBH Archives

Aida Garrido

Jackie Jay

Owner, audiovisual archivist, educator, Farallon Archival Consulting

David Sohl

Student, Media Burn Archive

Michelle Moriarity Witt

North Carolina Department of Natural and Cultural Resources

Thursday December 5, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
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11:30am CST

A Nonprofit Archive Primer: Show and Tell with Deserted Films

Thursday December 5, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm CST

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DIY Palm Springs home movie archive Deserted Films will lead an informal chat (the telling part). From the challenges of starting a 501c3, to fundraising, awareness raising, event and website curation, physical storage, file storage, etc. Deserted Films hopes to demystify the process for the uninitiated (it’s not always pretty and it’s not always what you learned in school!). The “showing” part is where it gets fun. Melissa and Devin have pulled some gems from their collections. Marvel to shots of the magnificent Palm Springs aerial tramway; enjoy Palm Canyon from the 40s through the 80s; take a dip in the pool; relish the beauty of architectural treasures; say hello to the stars and party with the locals. Our goal is share what's unique about Palm Springs while also inspiring folks to consider how a small, regional archive might fit into the landscape of their own region.

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Melissa Dollman

Co-founder, CFO, Deserted Films

Melissa Dollman earned her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) in American Studies in 2021 and has a Master’s in Moving Image Archive Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. She has worked professionally as an audiovisual archivist, adjunct... Read More →

Devin Orgeron

Deserted Films

Devin Orgeron is emeritus professor of film and Media studies at North Carolina State University where he taught and researched for nearly two decades. Along with numerous articles in the field’s leading journals, he is the author of ROAD MOVIES, co-editor of LEARNING WITH THE LIGHTS... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm CST
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2:00pm CST

Peliculas Caseras: Fostering Archival Autonomy and Empowerment Among Latine Communities

Thursday December 5, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm CST

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This session will identify how affect theory and a relational paradigm can be implemented through an intersectional lens as an epistemological framework to engage Latine communities in Southern California and the Midwest with moving image archiving. Examining current outreach efforts, we will explore various methods through which relationality can be centered within preservation work and programming, particularly through two projects centering peliculas caseras: the Home Movie Remezcla project and Home Movie Day Events. Ultimately, we will propose approaches to outreach that not only engender collective memory, but facilitate direct actions leading to the redistribution of power and resources to Latine communities who will subsequently be able to lead preservation projects without institutional intervention.

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Marísa Hicks-Alcaraz

Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Marisa Hicks-Alcaraz (she/they) is a Lecturer in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and co-founder of the Memory Lab at the Urbana Makerspace. Her research centers on U.S. Latina moving image production, anticolonial feminist theory, community... Read More →

Yesenia Perez

UCLA Film & Television Archive

Yesenia Perez (she/they) is a Processing Conservator with the UCLA Film & Television Archive. She received her MLIS from UCLA with a specialization in Media Archival Studies. In the past, she has held roles with the June L. Mazer Lesbian Archives, the UCLA Center for Oral History... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm CST
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2:00pm CST

The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive

Thursday December 5, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm CST

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This presentation is in support of the Spring 2025 release of The Future Of Memory, by Jimi Jones and Marek Jancovic, published by the University of Illinois Press. Drawing from interviews with archivists in North America and Europe, this book provides insight into the social processes and current difficulties involved in producing and implementing archival video standards. It is both an oral history of an important decade in audiovisual preservation, as well as a snapshot of a field undergoing a tremendous transition. This presentation will draw from the book’s content in order to explore the rarely theorized, intricate decision-making process that underlies standardized file formats. Presentation participants will gain insight into how archivists negotiate the promises of digital technology and balance preservation ideals with the financial realities at cash-strapped institutions.

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Jimi Jones

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Jimi Jones is the archivist at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. He is also adjunct instructor at the School of Information Sciences at Illinois. For the past decade Jimi has been studying standards for moving image digitization—the social aspects... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm CST
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2:00pm CST

A Collaborative Effort: Born Digital Video Preservation Strategies at LC

Thursday December 5, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST

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This session will discuss approaches taken by different areas at the Library of Congress for the receipt of, processing, and providing access to born-digital content. Opportunities for interacting with creators and donors, establishing suggested guidelines, developing new workflows, and the need for additional flexibilities will be discussed. Is the democratization of technology to create high-quality moving image content helping or hindering collecting efforts? How does the moving image archive profession navigate this format-rich environment to ensure long-term preservation? Speakers from the Library of Congress will highlight: processing considerations for moving image collections at the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center (NAVCC); collaboration and workflows for providing limited access to commercially-available content; and the American Folklife Center’s (AFC) Fieldwork File Format Recommendations. Presentations will include impact of collaborations, variety of file formats received, lessons learned, and strategies moving forward

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Laura Drake Davis

Digital Project Specialist, Library of Congress

Laura Drake Davis is a Digital Specialist at the Library of Congress in the Moving Image Section. In this role, Laura processes born-digital moving image content, develops new workflows for born-digital content and develops strategies for metadata capture and transformation. Laura... Read More →

Charles Hosale

Archivist, Library of Congress

Charlie Hosale is an archivist at the American Folklife Center in the Library of Congress, where he processes multi-format archival collections. He has participated in the Federal Agency Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) since 2018. He regularly contributes to the Library’s... Read More →

Morgan Oscar Morel

Library of Congress

Morgan Morel is the Video Lab Supervisor at the Library of Congress National Audiovisual Conservation Center in Culpeper, VA USA. He has worked in various video preservation labs across the Unites States, including George Blood LP and BAVC Media. He is focused on deploying open source... Read More →

Marcus A. Napier

Library of Congress

Thursday December 5, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
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2:00pm CST

Who the F*ck is "Dr. Ted": Archiving Lost Pornographic Films

Thursday December 5, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST

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Looking beyond known, seminal works such as DEEP THROAT and DEBBIE DOES DALLAS, this panel aims to delve into the complexities of preserving low-budget independent works made at the height of the sexual revolution produced for the purposes of exploring sexuality and sensuality. The expansive collection of Dr. Ted, also known as the Exodus Trust, the MultiMedia Resource Center (MMRC) and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality, has passed through many archivists hands. This panel showcases the work of archive professionals who have worked on this collection through sharing their insights into the conservation and access issues related to preserving sex-film works

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Camila Garcia Cabrera

Jacob Burns Film Center

Oscar Becher

Vinegar Syndrome

Oscar Becher is the Director of The Vinegar Syndrome Film Archive and the Vault Manager/Archivist at Vinegar Syndrome, a film restoration and distribution company focused on the preservation of historically overlooked areas of cinema, with a particular emphasis on genre films. He... Read More →

Lindsay Erin Miller

Vinegar Syndrome

Lindsay Erin Miller (they/she) is a media archivist, writer, and pop culture enthusiast. Originally from North Carolina, they currently work as the digital asset manager for Vinegar Syndrome. Lindsay holds a B.A. in Mass Communications from UNC Asheville and a M.A. in Moving Image... Read More →

JMS Emberley

Suny Purchase

Lucy Talbot Allen

New York University

Lucy Talbot Allen is a current second-year student in the NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. Lucy worked as an archive intern at Vinegar Syndrome in Summer 2024, working extensively with the Dr. Ted collection, which will form the basis of their M.A. thesis. Lucy... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
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2:30pm CST

Digitizing, Documenting, and Working with All Your Dance Stuff

Thursday December 5, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm CST

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Archival materials are increasingly being perceived for what they are: tools for inclusion, education, accessibility, and social justice. However, collecting and maintaining archives falls outside the current capacity of most performing arts organizations and individuals. Available means for documenting performance are degrading and in danger of being lost. Most performing artists are concerned with providing access to their works for future generations, but the migration process and both using and maintaining digitization equipment is complex and not financially sustainable. Currently, individuals and small- to mid-sized companies have no option but to address these problems independently. Dance documentarians Jenai Cutcher and Stephanie Neel are forming the Creative Archives Group to centralize and consolidate resources, technologies, and services through a community-based digital archiving hub. This hub will bridge connections between AV archivists and performing arts groups to create high-quality materials and empower artists to actively create, maintain, and engage with their archives.

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Jenai Cutcher

New York Public Library

Jenai Cutcher is a tap dancer and the Assistant Curator in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the NYPL Library for the Performing Arts. Her creative practice includes dancing, choreographing, teaching, writing, videography, archiving, curating, and researching histories of dance... Read More →

Stephanie Neel

Archivist, Mark Morris Dance Group

Stephanie Neel (she/her/hers) is an archivist based in New York City, working primarily with performing arts and photography collections. She has been the archivist at Mark Morris Dance Group in Brooklyn since 2017, and has worked with a number of performing arts companies and artist... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm CST
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3:15pm CST

AMIA Pathways Fellowship: Meet the 2024 Fellows

Thursday December 5, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST

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The AMIA Fellowship supports paid internships in combination with mentorship and professional development training to forge pathways in the audiovisual preservation field for people from groups historically underrepresented in the profession. The Fellowship welcomed the 2024 cohort in June and this is an opportunity to meet the Fellows and hear a bit about their internship experiences.

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Autumn Armstrong

Pathways Fellow

Janeth Delgado

Pathways Fellow

Frances Cava Humphrey

Pathways Fellow

Eve March

Pathways Fellow

Justin Martin

Pathways Fellow

Yasmin Mohaideen

Pathways Fellow

Maryam Mustafa

Pathways Fellow

Paula Roque-Rivera

Pathways Fellow

Mercer Zervopoulos

Pathways Fellow

Thursday December 5, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
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3:15pm CST

Archival Visibility: Preservation, Access, and Education with Milwaukee LGBTQ+ Collections

Thursday December 5, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST

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The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Archives is known for its commitment to documenting marginalized communities and provides access to the one of the largest LGBTQ+ history collections in the Midwest. Many of these collections are audiovisual, including episodes and raw footage from Public Access television shows, oral histories in audio and video form, and radio shows from the 1970s. But after these collections are preserved, how can a learning institution ensure that they are being utilized to their fullest capabilities, both online and in the classroom? Panelists will present an overview of selections from our LGBTQ+ AV collections. We will discuss how tools such as OHMS, IIIF, and speech-to-text tools have helped in facilitating access for patrons on a world-access level. Finally, panelists will demonstrate different ways that the archives’ LGBTQ+ audiovisual collections have been used in instruction, highlighting the unique affordances of audiovisual materials in a classroom context.

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Abigail Nye

Reference and Instruction Archivist, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries

I'm the Reference and Instruction Archivist at UW-Milwaukee. I hold an MLIS from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a BA from Wheaton College.Talk to me about: social media outreach, archival instruction, mystery novels, kdramas, and good food!

Shiraz Bhathena

Digital Archivist, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

I am the digital archivist for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and have been here since January, 2019. We carry collections from an array of formats, including documents, images, and AV recordings. Our collections cover the operations of the university as well as the history... Read More →

Ann Hanlon

Head, Digital Collections and Initiatives, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries

Ann Hanlon is Head of Digital Collections and Initiatives at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She also co-founded and leads the Digital Humanities Lab at UWM. Ann has an MA in History from the University of Maryland and her MSLIS from the University of Illinois. She has worked... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
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3:15pm CST

Eames in the Castle: Preserving Films Made for the Smithsonian

Thursday December 5, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST

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Film preservation case study and historical background presentation detailing films produced by Ray and Charles Eames for the Smithsonian Institution, held and collaboratively preserved by the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian.

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Walter Forsberg

Curator of Audiovisual Media, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Walter Forsberg is Curator of Audiovisual Media at Smithsonian Libraries and Archives. His co-edited book on Mexican microcinemas, "Cine-Espacios," was published by Canyon Cinema in 2023. Walter's first AMIA was 2008 in Savannah, where he got to meet Rick Prelinger and Sam Kula IRL... Read More →

Amy Gallick

Library of Congress

Amy Gallick is a Preservation Specialist in the Moving Image Section at the National Audio-visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, VA. She plays a role in many areas of the Moving Image Section’s operations, including acquisitions, preservation, conservation, exhibition, budgeting... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
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3:15pm CST

“Degralescence” 10 Years Later: Community Solutions to a Mounting Predicament

Thursday December 5, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST

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Over the years many individuals and institutions have speculated on how much time is left before it’s “too late” to save our cultural heritage recorded on magnetic media that is not yet digitized. The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia predicts magnetic media will be unsalvageable after 2025! Over the past 5 years magnetic media’s progressive degradation has required modified conservation treatments that are more intensive for tapes to be successfully transferred. Examples of this include needing to bake tapes longer at higher temperatures or multiple times and that the removal of contaminants is becoming more difficult. However, instead of discussing “degralescence” as the impending doom of our profession, we want to come to terms with the reality that it may have arrived, but there is still action that can be taken — if we collaborate and think of this as a “human problem” with human solutions. To do this, this forum seeks to re-establish conversations and community building that were a part of AMIA’s Magnetic Media Crisis Committee.

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Ashley Blewer

AV Preservation Specialist, NPR

audiovisual preservation, web development, the early internet, cats

Susie Cummings

NPR

Dan Hockstein

Audio Preservation Specialist, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Dan Hockstein (Audio Preservation Specialist, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives) is an audiovisual and information specialist. His work centers around exploring the people and stories held on legacy audio media, and the crucial knowledge surrounding the technology used to record... Read More →

Libby Hopfauf

Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound/Seattle Municipal Archives

Nicole Martin

Open Archive

Brianna Toth

Preservation Archivist, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives

Brianna works as a Preservation Archivist at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Film Archive on the Blackhawk Films Collection where she oversees a large-scale digitization project—the primary aim of which is to scan to protect rare and under-represented titles within... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
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4:30pm CST

Establishing a Community Digitization Program for AV Materials

Thursday December 5, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm CST

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In April of 2024, UGA's Walter J. Brown Media Archives held our first "Free the Tapes" community digitization event, where we invited members of the public to drop off up to 5 audiovisual items to be digitized by BMA staff, free of charge, with no donation to the archives required. The program culminated with a Home Movie Day style screening of clips that were digitized as part of Free the Tapes. We will discuss logistics, including working with our UGA Libraries colleagues who specialize in public programming and community outreach, and how we advocated within our organization to get the event approved (including by UGA's legal counsel). We will also discuss how we adapted when we received about 5x as many items as we had anticipated and how we used Airtable to track digitization and manage all patron communication. We will go in depth into "lessons learned," including how we adapted our program for our Fall 2024 Free the Tapes event. Ultimately, our Free the Tapes event was a success, both in terms of public feedback and internally with staff, and this program will be valuable to anyone considering something similar in their community.

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Callie Holmes

Digital Archivist, UGA Walter J. Brown Media Archives

Thomas May

UGA Walter J. Brown Media Archives

Thursday December 5, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm CST
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4:30pm CST

DAR to be Different: Demystifying Aspect Ratio and Forming a Community Consensus

Thursday December 5, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST

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Out of the many technical details encountered in the preservation of analog video materials, the nuances of aspect ratio are among the most confusing. Available explanations of terms like Display Aspect Ratio, Pixel Aspect Ratio and Storage Aspect Ratio often confuse more than they elucidate. This presentation will attempt to clearly and succinctly explain and simplify these concepts, and discuss their impact for AV preservation and archiving. Additionally, the session will include the opportunity for a community discussion meant to work towards a consensus of how our field will handle the incongruencies surrounding this topic.

Speakers

Morgan Oscar Morel

Library of Congress

Dave Rice

CUNY TV

Dave Rice is an audiovisual archivist and technologist and a graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation. Dave’s work focuses on the application of open source technology for audiovisual preservation as well as facilitating coordination and collaboration between... Read More →

Thursday December 5, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
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Homicide: Life on the Street – A Remaster Case Study

Thursday December 5, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST

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Homicide: Life on the Street ran for 7 seasons between 1993 and 1999. Its all-star cast included breakout star Andre Braugher, and it garnered critical acclaim, including Peabody and Emmy Awards, and was listed as one of TIME magazine’s “Best TV Shows of All-TIME.” The 4K Remastering process encountered a myriad of challenges including: locating picture and audio assets that had undergone multiple ownership transitions and questionable cataloging practices; recreating the final edit from over 600 boxes of uncut negatives; and navigating music licensing for streaming distribution. Members of NBCUniversal’s Mastering & Archive team and NBCUniversal StudioPost will discuss how they overcame these obstacles to get the series ready for streaming distribution.

Speakers

Jen O'Leary Hashida

NBCUniversal

Casey Keltner

NBCUniversal StudioPost

Casey runs the Picture Division of StudioPost, the on-lot Post Production facility in Los Angeles which works on both episodic television and mastering needs for NBCUniversal and content creators across the industry. Casey’s team of professionals and artists focus on color correction... Read More →

Cassandra Moore

NBCUniversal

Cassandra Moore is the Vice President of Mastering and Archive at NBCUniversal and has worked at NBCUniversal since 2004. She is a highly skilled professional in 4K DolbyVision & HDR Mastering, Feature Film Restoration, Production Management, and Process Improvement. Having worked... Read More →

Chase Schulte

Manager, Physical Archive Operations, NBCUniversal

Thursday December 5, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
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4:30pm CST

Preparing, Identifying, and Responding to the Archival Impacts Climate Change

Thursday December 5, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST

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More than before, archives must assess their unique climate change-related threats to their collections and missions as part of their overall disaster and emergency management plans. This forum will discuss the different climate change threats impacting archives, the IMLS-funded PROTECCT-GLAM national categorical risk assessment scale utilizing a GIS analysis of climate models, and best practices for sustainability and greening the archives. The forum will conclude with an open discussion of climate change action priorities for the archival community.

Speakers

Krista Hollis

LEED Green Associate

Krista M. Hollis is the Assistant Archivist at The Menil Collection. The Menil has an extensive Film and Media Collection with records dating back to 1874. Krista holds a B.A. in Art History from Texas State University (2018), an MLIS with a Certificate in Archival Studies from Louisiana... Read More →

Edward Benoit III

Associate Professor & Associate Director, Louisiana State University

Edward Benoit, III is Associate Director and Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies at Louisiana State University. He coordinates the archival studies and cultural heritage resource management programs. He received an MA in History, MLIS and PhD in Information Studies... Read More →

Jill Trepanier

Louisiana State University

Thursday December 5, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
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5:00pm CST

Saving the Unsalvageable: An Unusual Preservation Approach for BW Reversal Film

Thursday December 5, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm CST

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This panel looks at an unusual and novel technique for saving the most damaged and brittle film reels This is not for making fancy looking marquee restorations so much as for last ditch efforts of saving footage that is so historically important that any evidence remains valuable, even it is visually flawed.

Speakers

Dino Everett

Curator, USC HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive

Isabella Scaffidi

American Cinematheque

Thursday December 5, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm CST
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