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Wednesday, December 4
 

11:00am CST

Diaspora Identities in Archival Home Movie Practice
Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am CST
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This presentation looks at vernacular moving image practices and related oral histories as sources for studying the transformation of the diaspora’s identity through a case study of the Not-So-Ordinary project on home movies and Polish Chicago. The research project is conducted by Agata Zborowska (University of Chicago/KU Leuven) in partnership with Chicago Film Archives. In the presentation, I will discuss the preliminary results of the project that aims to contextualize films and videos through oral histories and explore the media’s potential to evoke memories and narrativize one’s experience. The presented case study is an example of how to analyze not only the movies’ content and aesthetics but also the practices related to their creation, viewing, sharing, and their role in the lives of individuals, families, and communities.
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Agata Zborowska

University of Chicago/KU Leuven
Agata Zborowska is a cultural historian with a background in cultural studies and visual culture. She completed her PhD at the University of Warsaw. Her research interests lie in the intersection of material culture, property relations, and critical archival studies. She is currently... Read More →
Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am CST
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11:00am CST

Arkansas Voices: The Oral History Recordings of Dr. Johnye Strickland
Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
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In 1973, Dr. Johnye Strickland founded the Oral History Program at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. During her 52-year tenure at UALR, she and her students recorded hundreds of hours of interviews on open reel tapes, audio cassettes, and microcassettes. Thanks to a grant from the Arkansas Natural and Cultural Resources Council, the UALR Center for Arkansas History and Culture has digitized these recordings, making the stories they contain accessible again. This presentation will introduce the Johnye Strickland Collection, describe the grant project, and highlight some unique oral histories, including interviews with Vietnamese refugees, conversations with women in Arkansas politics, folk histories of Petit Jean Mountain, and discussions of craft with Arkansas poets. Strickland’s recordings feature an array of Arkansan voices – from those newly arrived to those long established – and the stories they tell enrich our understanding of this often-overlooked state’s cultural and political history.
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Amanda McQueen

University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
Amanda McQueen is an archivist, historian, and educator at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture (CAHC). She holds an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from New York University and an MA and PhD in Communication Arts from the... Read More →
Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
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11:00am CST

Risk and Reward: What Archivists Should Know About Film Projection
Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
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As archivists, we are entrusted with both the preservation and access of rare and original materials created by others. However, many archivists are not often trained to project films or understand the technical standards around film projection as part of access, which is often segmented to the role of projectionists and other technical roles. Projection of works in their original formats, particularly film, is often integral to the nature of the material we steward and can additionally help highlight artistic intent around the medium and further support archival advocacy. Presented by the AMIA Small Gauge and Amateur Film Committee, this roundtable discussion is composed of filmmakers, theatrical projectionists, and archivists. It aims to bring greater awareness to the larger archival community about special issues and considerations concerning the projection of artist-made films, archival prints, and other valuable prints of both small and large gauge formats in addition to theatrical and microcinema 16mm/Super 8 projection.
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Ben Balcom

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Lori Felker

DePaul University
Lori Felker is a filmmaker, teacher, programmer, and performer. Her films study the ineloquent, frustrating, and chaotic qualities of human interaction and have explored empathy, discontinuity, grief, and multiple dimensions. She eschews any particular style or genre in favor of letting... Read More →
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Kevin Rice

Oriental Theater, Milwaukee
Kevin Rice is a cinema engineer and filmmaker based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In 2012, he co-founded the non-profit organization Process Reversal, an org dedicated to film preservation through the practice of making and exhibiting films on film. Through its touring series of screenings... Read More →
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Patricia Ledesma Villon

Walker Art Center
Patricia Ledesma Villon is the Bentson Archivist and Assistant Curator of the Moving Image department of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she oversees the preservation of the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection. She has processed audiovisual collections and... Read More →
Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
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11:00am CST

The Jack Warner Scripts: A Case Study
Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
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Archival experts from both Warner Bros. Discovery Global Archives & Preservation Services and Iron Mountain Media and Archive Services will present on the discovery, preservation and digitization of 600 bound scripts created for Jack Warner’s personal collection. Dated between the 1920s-1970s, noteworthy scripts include Don Juan, The Adventures of Robin Hood, My Fair Lady, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and many others. The collection will be fully digitized and shared for the first time, creating a comprehensive representation of the book by digitizing not only the pages, spine, and front/back covers, but also by imaging vintage publicity stills from the features that are taped inside the books.
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Hillary Howell

Iron Mountain Media and Archive Services
Director of Premium Archival Services for Iron Mountain Media and Archive Services, Hillary Howell, brings an extensive background managing all the aspects of studio and production company collections along with her experience as an entertainment archivist. At Iron Mountain Media... Read More →
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Randal Luckow

Warner Bros Discovery
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Alisha Perdue

Iron Mountain Media and Archive Services
Alisha Perdue is the Senior Marketing Manager at Iron Mountain Media & Archive Services, where she helps drive impactful marketing strategies for the media and entertainment industry. With a deep passion for storytelling, Alisha specializes in building partnerships that bring to life... Read More →
Wednesday December 4, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
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2:00pm CST

No Reel Left Untouched - A Case Study of 150,000 Reels
Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm CST
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The National Film Archive of India (NFIA), the largest archive in India, is in the midst of a project to preserve almost 150,000 reels of film in its collection and to physically restore almost 60,000 of those reels. This case study looks at the workflows and processes, as well as new management structures created. The project is ongoing, with lessons still to be learned.  
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Geetha Sanumathy

Prasad Corp
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Mark Smirnoff

Prasad Corp
Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm CST
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2:00pm CST

Preparing Streaming Media for Accessibility: Three Organizations Share Their Efforts
Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
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Given the April 2024 updated Rule on the Accessibility of Web Content and Mobile Apps Provided by State and Local Governments, many organizations are working on plans to make their digitized archival audio-visual material accessible to all. With the vast quantity of streaming media available currently across our organizations, this panel will present the issues, the efforts that are beginning now and the challenges that will be faced. This will serve to introduce this topic to the AMIA community and to promote discussion within our field.
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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 →
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Jon Dunn

Assistant Dean for Library Technologies, Indiana University Libraries
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Heather Heckman

Associate Dean for Technology, University of South Carolina Libraries
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Crystal Sanchez

Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution
Crystal Sanchez is a media archivist at the Smithsonian Institution on the Digital Asset Management team (DAMS), working with digital audiovisual collections from across the Smithsonian’s diverse Museums, Archives, Libraries, Research Centers, and the Zoo. As a moving image archivist... Read More →
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Rachael Stoeltje

Indiana University Libraries
Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:00pm - 3:00pm CST
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2:30pm CST

Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology
Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm CST
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The domain of digital audiovisual preservation has been largely confined to grandfathered production technology. While signal processing has continued to improve in adjacent disciplines, we lag behind and stubbornly soldier onward using old technology and techniques. I'm proposing a workflow for visual restoration on image scans of optical tracks as a superior alternative to conventional sound readers and audio software. I'll show how this workflow enables results of higher fidelity, and I'll go in to detail about its archival and ethical merits. The process only uses image scans of optical tracks along with free and low cost software with a wide user base; therefore, I consider it "lateral thinking with withered technology," in the words of game designer Gunpei Yokoi, whose 16mm FMV games will be the first subject of the case study portion. We defy you to guess the second subject, and heartily ask you to divulge it afterward.
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Sydney Perkins

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Syd Perkins is a 2017 graduate of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation certificate program. She has interned and worked at multiple institutions over the past twelve plus years, including the Moving Image Research Collections, Yale Film Archive, and Metropolis Post... Read More →
Wednesday December 4, 2024 2:30pm - 3:00pm CST
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3:15pm CST

Serious Business: 1970s Feminist Film Distribution; A Site for Archival Knowledge
Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 3:45pm CST
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"Serious Business: 1970s Feminist Film Distribution; A Site for Archival Knowledge " presents the diasporic journey of a now non-existent distribution company's collection of films. Working with catalogs, ephemera, letter correspondences, oral history work, and home archives from Freude's son, this presentation shows ways to build an alternative understanding of experimental and feminist film culture in the long 1970s when films were no longer accessible.
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Amy Catherine Reid

The University of California, Santa Cruz
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Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 3:45pm CST
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3:15pm CST

Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago
Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
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The Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago: Autonomous Archiving is an invitation to experience the historical documentary-style 16mm home movies created by union pipefitter Nicholas Viernes (1902-199) and learn about the work done to conserve these films. As part ofIn this session, we will present three of the earliest films from among the 300 home movies in the FAHSC collection: “Little Farmers of Reynoldsburg” parts 1 and 2 (1936 and 1937), which highlights portrait shots of an interracial family and their farm animals in rural Ohio; and “All-Stars” (1939), featuring an interstate Filipino migrant baseball tournament at Grant Park near the Field Museum of Natural History. The families and migrant communities showcased in these home movies document bold moments of joy and prosperity within a rapidly diversifying social landscape of the early 20th Century. Presented by Ashley Dequilla, FASHC archivist and collection manager, and Rebecca Hall, Chicago Film Society co-founder and projectionist.
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Ashley Dequilla

Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago
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Rebecca Hall

Chicago Film Society
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Camille Townson

South Side Home Movie Project
Camille Townson is the Processing Archivist at South Side Home Movie Project. They began working with SSHMP in 2022 as an AMIA Pathways Fellow. Camille received their B.S. in Human-Computer Interaction and Design from UC San Diego, and specialize in user experience, digital accessibility... Read More →
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Moriah Ulinskas

Community Archiving Workshop
Moriah Ulinskas is an archivist and moving image preservationist whose work seeks out and supports collections which fall outside mainstream historical narratives and major institutions. She is the Diversity Committee Chair for the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), has... Read More →
Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
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3:15pm CST

YouTube Do’s and Don’ts: Create, Manage, Monetize, Share
Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
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YouTube continues to be the second most visited website, the second most popular social media channel, and the second most popular search engine. It is accessed by 47% of the online population at least once a month. And although a Google search may bring users to your website, you may never reach those natively searching YouTube. A holistic access plan should include a YouTube strategy. In this session, Mitch Peyser, President of PressPlay2Entertain, Elizabeth Hansen, Managing Director of the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, and Skip Elsheimer, Founder of A/V Geeks, explore the do’s and don’ts, (and pros and cons) of creating and managing a YouTube channel with examples from their respective organizations as well data from the UCLA Film & Television Archive. We will cover creating and launching a channel, aligning that channel with your objectives, and practical tips on SEO and monetization. We’ll also discuss the risks, what can go wrong, and how to avoid missteps. Attendees are encouraged to bring their questions and experiences to the session.
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Elizabeth A Hansen

Managing Director, Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Elizabeth Hansen is a creative problem-solver with more than two decades of expertise in archives, museums, history, and media. She joined the Texas Archive of the Moving Image as Managing Director in 2020 and served as the organization's Outreach and Education Manager from 2008 to... Read More →
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Mitch Peyser

PressPlay2Entertaint
After many years mining archives to create and promote classic music and video collections for Time Life, Mitch is now curating, creating, launching and managing YouTube channels including The Smothers Brothers, Bob Hope, and Tennessee Ernie Ford. The Smothers Brothers Channel has... Read More →
Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
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3:45pm CST

The Preservation of Digital Live Performance Art
Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm CST
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This research project focuses on the preservation of Digital Live Performance Art (DLPA). Technological advancements have significantly transformed the performance landscape, enabling artists to engage with digital technology in real time during live shows. The origins of tech-centered audiovisual performances can be traced back to dance, theatre, expanded cinema, audio and video synthesis, and live programming. With the advent of new equipment, software, platforms, projection techniques, various coding environments, and visual programming languages, DLPA has developed into a unique form of artistic expression, no longer merely a supplementary component of musical or theatrical performances. DLPA blends performance art with digital (and analog) technology and human-computer interaction. This research explores two categories: live-coding and mixed-media performances through the lens of museum conservation. By identifying conservation challenges such as documentation, technology obsolescence, and performance delegation, the research aims to develop a documentation resource to aid individual artists and institutions in preserving DLPA.
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Jenny Hsu

Jenny Hsu received her Master’s degree from NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program in May 2024. She is currently a Time-Based Media Conservation Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she works on the ingest and documentation of new acquisitions and artworks... Read More →
Wednesday December 4, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm CST
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4:30pm CST

Cinema Slides: The Greatest Images Never Seen
Wednesday December 4, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm CST
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Projected glass “lantern” slides were part of the cinema-going experience from the very beginning. Slides were used for advertising products, instructing, informing (or scolding) audiences, and spectacularly advertising the delights of upcoming shows. Not only visually stunning, these slides provide unique insight into audience behavior and expectations, as well as advertising and promotional strategies. Many archives and museums hold cinema slides that have been passively collected, but that generally reside on the fringes of the institution’s collection. In his richly illustrated presentation, Rob discusses the history of glass projection slides within the cinema, placing them in both a historic and aesthetic context, as well as the archival challenges and opportunities presented by these fragile objects that many institutions hold in their collections. The presentation will include the opportunity to view and handle original slide artifacts and coincides with the launch of the online Cinema Slide Archive.
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Robert Byrne

San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Robert Byrne is film preservationist and restorer specializing in early cinema and films of the silent era. Working with film archives and collections worldwide he has led restorations and resurrections of more than forty feature films and numerous short subjects. He has lectured... Read More →
Wednesday December 4, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm CST
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4:30pm CST

Introducing Moving Image Archives into Media Studies
Wednesday December 4, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
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This session explores the integration of archival media into media production and digital storytelling education. By leveraging archival footage, students can create compelling narratives that connect historical content with contemporary perspectives. The session will provide practical strategies and case studies from media literacy and production classes, highlighting how archival media can enhance learning and foster creativity. The two case studies will come from two university libraries working with Media Studies courses, with different archival content, leading to a broader discussion of best practices and strategies for incorporating and potentially exhibiting student projects using moving image archives. The session will include access to example assignment prompts and files for reuse in many educational contexts.
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Jason Evans Groth

North Carolina State University Libraries
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Josh Thorud

University of Virginia
Josh Thorud is a Multimedia Teaching and Learning Librarian at the University of Virginia Library. In this role, he designs and teaches audio/video and digital art instructional sessions, including software, equipment, media literacy, and digital storytelling, as well as consults... Read More →
Wednesday December 4, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
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5:00pm CST

From Busby Berkeley to Frank Zappa: the Treasure Trove of Philip Jenkinson
Wednesday December 4, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm CST
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Private film collectors now arguably represent the last frontier of film preservation. Many key film titles still missing or even yet to be discovered, may well be hiding in private hands. The private film collection of British broadcaster and journalist Philip Jenkinson is testament to this. He was embedded in, and well known throughout the British film collecting community, which included Kevin Brownlow (film historian), and Ronald Grant (founder of the London Cinema Museum), and with Key American connections such as David Bradley (American writer, actor, director, and university instructor). He edited early films for some of Britain's most important filmmakers, including Ken Russell, one or two of which made it into his collection. Rosie Taylor has worked with this complex and fascinating collection, now preserved in the BFI National Archive, finding important connections and hidden gems, and discovering the important role private collectors play in film preservation.
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Rosie Rowan Taylor

British Film Institute
Wednesday December 4, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm CST
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Thursday, December 5
 

9:30am CST

Essential Yet Challenged: Decentralized Model of Film Preservation in China
Thursday December 5, 2024 9:30am - 10:00am CST
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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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9:30am CST

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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Heidi Shakespeare

Memnon Archiving Services
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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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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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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11:00am CST

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 →
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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 →
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Henry Apodaca

Skid Row History Museum and Archive
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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 →
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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
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Jackie Jay

Owner, audiovisual archivist, educator, Farallon Archival Consulting
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David Sohl

Student, Media Burn Archive
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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 →
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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 →
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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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  Session

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 →
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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 →
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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 →
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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
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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 →
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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 →
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JMS Emberley

Suny Purchase
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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.
Speakers
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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 →
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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
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Janeth Delgado

Pathways Fellow
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Frances Cava Humphrey

Pathways Fellow
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Eve March

Pathways Fellow
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Justin Martin

Pathways Fellow
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Yasmin Mohaideen

Pathways Fellow
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Maryam Mustafa

Pathways Fellow
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Paula Roque-Rivera

Pathways Fellow
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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.
Speakers
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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!
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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 →
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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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  Session

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 →
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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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  Session

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
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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 →
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Libby Hopfauf

Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound/Seattle Municipal Archives
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Nicole Martin

Open Archive
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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.
Speakers
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Callie Holmes

Digital Archivist, UGA Walter J. Brown Media Archives
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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.
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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 →
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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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4:30pm CST

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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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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 →
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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 →
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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.
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Dino Everett

Curator, USC HMH Foundation Moving Image Archive
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Isabella Scaffidi

American Cinematheque
Thursday December 5, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm CST
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9:45am CST

Elevating Autistic Voices Through Neuro-Affirming Practices in Audiovisual Archives
Friday December 6, 2024 9:45am - 10:45am CST
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This session will delve into the Autistic Voices Oral History Project (tAVOHP), an initiative challenging neuro-normative assumptions within archives and oral history, shifting the field toward a neuro-affirming framework. Launched in 2023, tAVOHP addresses the underrepresentation of Autistic lived experiences in the historic record by documenting and preserving the stories of Autistic advocates. Participants will receive an introduction to the neurodiversity paradigm, neuro-affirming frameworks, Autistic culture, and discuss the “double-empathy problem.” Emphasizing cross-neurotype communication as a core competency, this session aims to set a precedent for future memory work. Project staff will share Autistically-informed methodologies for conducting oral history, providing practical strategies for enhancing communication, creating inclusive spaces, building trust and understanding, and empowering Autistic narratives. Attendees will learn how to create supportive environments for Autistic patrons, donors, colleagues, and others, fostering a more inclusive and empathetic approach to archival practices. The session will also introduce the The Autistic Lived Experience: Community Curation and Memory Workers Fellowship funded by IMLS in partnership with AMIA and the Association for Autism and Neurodiversity (AANE). AMIA members are encouraged to apply for the fellowship, with the call for applications open through January 2025.
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Casey Davis

Autistic Voices Oral History Project
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Sam Fleishman

Autistic Voices Oral History Project
Sam Fleishman (they/them) is project manager for the Autistic Voices Oral History Project. Sam is a writer, researcher, and multimedia artist with a focus on disability advocacy and documentary storytelling. After being professionally identified as Autistic at 24, they began a deep... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 9:45am - 10:45am CST
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9:45am CST

Got Nitrate? Adventures Building a Nitrate Vault in 2024
Friday December 6, 2024 9:45am - 10:45am CST
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Nitrate film vaults are constructed very infrequently and taking on this challenge in 2024 is not for the faint of heart. The handling and storage of nitrate film requires exceptional levels of expertise, care, training, and safety precautions. Building a new nitrate film vault is, therefore, a complex endeavor. PRO-TEK Vaults is one of the few certified providers of nitrate film restoration and preservation services in the U.S. and PRO-TEK’s team regularly provides guidance and services to presidential libraries, universities, museums, news organizations, corporations, and motion picture studios. Over the last few years, industry colleagues discussed their desire for additional nitrate film storage in the greater Los Angeles area. In this session, Tim Knapp and Doug Sylvester from PRO-TEK will discuss the process they started in 2022 to scope, design, build, and operate a new nitrate film vault which will open in early 2025.
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Tim Knapp

PRO-TEK Vaults
Tim Knapp is the Chief Operating Officer for PRO-TEK Vaults. Tim brings more than forty years of experience in motion picture and still photo imaging – first in film, and more recently in digital. In his nearly 30 years at Kodak, Tim's career began at the manufacturing headquarters... Read More →
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Doug Sylvester

PRO-TEK Vaults
Friday December 6, 2024 9:45am - 10:45am CST
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9:45am CST

Pathways Fellowship Alumni: Reports from the Field
Friday December 6, 2024 9:45am - 10:45am CST
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Pathways Fellows from 2020, 2022, and 2023 share what they're working on now.
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Adira-Danique Philyaw

University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collection/AMIA Pathways Fellow (2023)
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Rai Terry

South Side Home Movie Project
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Camille Townson

South Side Home Movie Project
Camille Townson is the Processing Archivist at South Side Home Movie Project. They began working with SSHMP in 2022 as an AMIA Pathways Fellow. Camille received their B.S. in Human-Computer Interaction and Design from UC San Diego, and specialize in user experience, digital accessibility... Read More →
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Patricia Ledesma Villon

Walker Art Center
Patricia Ledesma Villon is the Bentson Archivist and Assistant Curator of the Moving Image department of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she oversees the preservation of the Ruben/Bentson Moving Image Collection. She has processed audiovisual collections and... Read More →
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Friday December 6, 2024 9:45am - 10:45am CST
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9:45am CST

Walls of the Classroom Disappear: Early Educational Television 16mm Films
Friday December 6, 2024 9:45am - 10:45am CST
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This session examines the 16mm film collections of KUHT (Houston, TX, first aired May 25, 1953) and WKAR (East Lansing, MI, first aired January 15, 1954), two of the earliest public educational TV stations in the U.S. We will explore the historical context behind their establishment following the FCC’s freeze on new broadcast licenses, highlighting their mission to provide educational and cultural programming. The session reviews their diverse content, from academic subjects to cultural programming, showcasing innovative educational broadcasting approaches. We will also discuss the technical choices between filmed productions and kinescope recordings and their implications for preservation. Finally, we will share strategies for digitizing these collections, including securing funding and overcoming obstacles to ensure these historical materials are accessible to modern audiences.
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Emily Vinson

Preservation Coordinator, University of Houston Libraries
Emily Vinson is the Preservation Coordinator within the University of Houston Libraries Preservation and Reformatting Department. Prior to UH, Emily worked as an archivist at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy, a project archivist preserving unique audio holdings... Read More →
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Matthew Wilcox

Audiovisual Archivist, Michigan State University Libraries
Matthew Wilcox is the Audiovisual Archivist at the Michigan State University Libraries. Matthew has been an advocate for the WKAR and WMSB educational kinescopes and films, and he is also responsible for the management of the MSU Library's Media Preservation Lab. With the aid of a... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 9:45am - 10:45am CST
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11:00am CST

Talk About Talkies
Friday December 6, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am CST
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In the moving image preservation community there's a lot of concern about and discussion of image quality, resolution, and formats. What about the sound? As film scanners have improved over time, they have added features and functionality. A decade ago sound film was scanned in two passes - once on a telecine to capture the picture, then again on a sound reproducer - which then required assembling the two elements together in an editing program. Now most film scanners will scan both sound and picture in one pass. Is this a good thing? Have we compromised performance for this convenience and labor/cost savings? Recently George Blood Audio/Video/Film/Data was in the market for a new film scanner. At last year's AMIA we presented on the factors impacting image capture, and showed the results from different models. This year we present our findings on the sound reproduction, both mag and optical, of three high end film scanners.
Speakers
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George Blood

Owner, George Blood Audio/Video/Film/Data
George Blood graduated from the University of Chicago (1983) with a Bachelor of Arts in Music Theory. • The only student of pianist Marc-André Hamelin. • Recorded over 4,000 live events since 1982 • Recording Engineer for The Philadelphia Orchestra for 21 years • Recorded... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 11:00am - 11:30am CST
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11:00am CST

A Decade of Preservation: Al Larvick Fund’s Home Movie Collaborations
Friday December 6, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
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The Al Larvick Conservation Fund granting organization celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2024. The Fund provides support for digitization and conservation of American home movies and amateur media, with a unique approach that extends to collection individuals and families. The Fund administers two annual grants: a National Grant for recipients across the country and a Regional Grant for Upper Midwestern states. Its mission goes beyond providing digitization, ensuring that the materials are actively utilized and celebrated through detailed Airtable cataloging, screening programs, and oral histories. These activities ensure that the personal media are made accessible and well-curated for future generations. The panel session will feature contributions from board members, vendors, and grant recipients, showcasing the organization's transformative impact and its role in revitalizing personal and community histories, while also addressing its limitations.
Speakers
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Diana Little

Supplier/Service Provider, The MediaPreserve
Diana Little directs the Film Department at The MediaPreserve, a laboratory outside of Pittsburgh, PA that specializes in the digitization of archival audiovisual materials. Prior to her time at The MediaPreserve, Diana spent most of a decade working on film restorations at Cineric... Read More →
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Brian Belak

Video Archivist, Al Larvick Fund
Brian Belak is a Film Preservationist for the UCLA Film & Television Archive, where he works on preservation and restoration projects that range from the silent era to independent and LGBTQ+ cinema. Brian previously worked as Collections Manager for Chicago Film Archives, and while... Read More →
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Kirsten Larvick

Women’s Film Preservation Fund/IndieCollect
Kirsten Larvick is the Director of Special Projects at IndieCollect, where she helps filmmakers develop strategies for preserving their work through the Legacy Services initiative. Since 2009, she has co-chaired the Women's Film Preservation Fund (WFPF), which is dedicated to protecting... Read More →
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Jim Hubbard

Jim Hubbard has been making films since 1974. Among his many films are Nostalgia, United in Anger, Elegy in the Streets, Two Marches, The Dance and Memento Mori, which won the Ursula for Best Short Film at the Hamburg Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. He co-founded MIX - the New York Lesbian... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
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11:00am CST

Archiving Film Culture: Collaborating to Increase Access and Outreach
Friday December 6, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
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With the project “Expanding Film Culture’s Field of Vision,” the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research (WCFTR) is processing and sharing collections from individuals and institutions that helped push American film culture beyond the mainstream, across different regions and time periods. The project, funded by a National Historical Publications and Records Commission grant, includes four collections: Amos Vogel (Cinema 16 founder, New York Film Festival co-founder, Annenberg Center director of film), Chuck Kleinhans (Jump Cut co-founder/editor, Northwestern University professor, experimental filmmaker), Elfrieda Abbe (film critic, Angles: Women Working in Film and Video editor), and the Wisconsin Film Festival. Speakers from WCFTR and Chicago Film Archives will discuss collaborations between the two Midwestern archives and other film organizations that produced screenings, film scans, and digital exhibits for this project, increasing access to the rare avant-garde and independent films represented in these collections.
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Olivia Babler

Digitization Manager, Chicago Film Archives
Olivia Babler manages film digitization operations at Chicago Film Archives, a non-profit dedicated to preserving films from the Midwestern U.S. She is active in all stages of collections processing at CFA, including inspection, digitization, curation, and cataloging. Prior to joining... Read More →
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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 →
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Mary Huelsbeck

Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Mary Huelsbeck has been the Assistant Director of the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since March 2012. She has over twenty-five years of experience managing film, videotape, audio, photograph, manuscript and three dimensional... Read More →
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Matt St. John

Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
Matt St. John is a manuscript archivist at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research, where he leads processing and digitization for the “Expanding Film Culture’s Field of Vision” project. He holds a PhD in film from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Friday December 6, 2024 11:00am - 12:00pm CST
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11:30am CST

The Future of LTO Technology in Digital Preservation
Friday December 6, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm CST
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LTO data tape is used by archives as a stable solution for backing up digital files. The current generation, LTO-9, has also introduced some challenges when there are differences in the physical environment of the writing location vs. that of the reading location. One of the noted features of the format since LTO-5, the LTFS open file system used for writing data to LTO tape, will no longer be supported by IBM past version 2.4.5 on PCs running Windows 10 or 11. Additionally, there is a trend by LTO tape library and software manufacturers to ignore LTFS and incorporate object storage technologies into LTO tape libraries, resulting in data on tape being locked into proprietary systems. This session will explain the implications of these changes in the LTO format as related to digital preservation, to help guide attendees’ future use of LTO data storage in their digital preservation planning.
Speakers
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Larry Blake

Swelltone
Larry Blake is a supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer of feature films. He has mixed more than 65 narrative features since 1989, and was also the supervising sound editor on 55 of them. Included in this number are 33 features and four television seasons with Steven Soderbergh... Read More →
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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 →
Friday December 6, 2024 11:30am - 12:00pm CST
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2:00pm CST

Exploring 3D Printing for VCR and VTR Repair
Friday December 6, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm CST
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A decade into the magnetic media crisis, video’s obsolescence means that playback equipment is getting harder to maintain, making digital reformatting efforts more difficult. Expert knowledge of how to repair and maintain VCRs and VTRs is becoming rarer, and the supply of original parts is decreasing. Without access to industrial manufacturing processes, new parts can’t be made. Or can they? This presentation will explore 3D printing’s current and potential applications for repairing VCRs and VTRs and give an overview of the technologies and software involved in workflows for 3D Printing for Repair (3DPfR). The presenter will also discuss their own experiences with a 3DPfR project for a Sony SLV-740HF consumer VHS player, including their successes, failures and areas for future research. This presentation will cover how 3D printing can be used to repair legacy video equipment and the work that still needs to be done to reach this goal.
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Anthony Gonzalez

Independent
Friday December 6, 2024 2:00pm - 2:30pm CST
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  Session

2:00pm CST

Author, Author! An AMIA Publishing Roundtable 
Friday December 6, 2024 2:00pm - 4:00pm CST
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AMIA members are among the leading professional and scholarly voices worldwide on issues surrounding the preservation, archiving, and restoration of film, video, and digital moving images. They write not only for AMIA’s journal, The Moving Image, but also author books and articles for a wide variety of publications.  This session offers a sneak peek at a few upcoming publications, with time for Q&A with the authors / editors. Have something you’re working on and want to figure out how to get it in the world?  Curious about publishing? Want to make folks aware of something you’ve just published?  Join us for a mostly informal chat. Let’s get our work out there!
Speakers
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Karen Gracy

Associate Professor, Kent State University
Karen F. Gracy, Ph.D., is an associate professor with tenure at the School of Library and Information Science of Kent State University. She possesses an MLIS and PhD in Library and Information Science from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MA in critical studies of... Read More →
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Peter B. Kaufman

Strategic Initiatives, MIT
Online education; video; OER; and the fight to free knowledge.
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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 →
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Brian Real

University of Kentucky
Brian Real (he/him) is an assistant professor in the School of Information Science at the University of Kentucky. He holds a PhD in information studies and a master of library science from the University of Maryland. His primary research areas are the historical impact of federal... Read More →
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Liza Palmer

The Moving Image/Film Matters
Liza Palmer, librarian, is managing editor for the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ The Moving Image; co-editor-in-chief of the magazine Film Matters; and contributing editor for Film International. She is an academic publishing specialist in Film Studies at the University... Read More →
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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 →
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Anthony Silvestri

Minnesota Press
Anthony Silvestri is journals manager at the University of Minnesota Press. Prior to joining the Press, he received his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Sciences from Indiana University. His research has been published in the Moving Image, the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television... Read More →
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Michael Marlatt

Archival Accessibility Consultant
Michael Marlatt (he/him) is a disabled film archivist, archival accessibility consultant, and archival producer based in New Brunswick, Canada. Michael received his PhD at York University in the Communication & Culture program where he examined accessibility gaps in moving image archival... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 2:00pm - 4:00pm CST
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2:30pm CST

DIY Video Lab: Crowdsourcing, Escaping Perfectionism, and Embracing Apprenticeship Models
Friday December 6, 2024 2:30pm - 4:00pm CST
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In this session, TAMI seeks to provide archivists with insight into how to implement a lab build-out at a fraction of the cost. In 2023, the organization was able to complete a digitization lab build-out for $4,700 by using tactics such as crowdsourcing donations through a successful "Equipment Round-Up" campaign on social media, purchasing consumer-grade equipment, and gleaning second-hand sales. In the spirit of knowledge-sharing, our presentation offers a down-to-earth approach that will reveal "imperfections" in our workflow and destigmatize affordable solutions to solve costly problems. We'll also cover the merits of an apprenticeship model, which has become integral to the lab's daily operations. By de-centering the emphasis on advanced degrees to work in the moving image archiving field, we have increased our capacity while simultaneously breaking down barriers to entering this elusive field by encouraging those with no formal archival training or degrees to join Team TAMI.
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Ari Negovschi Regalado

Texas Archive of the Moving Image
Ari Negovschi Regalado (CalArts '14, UIUC MS/LIS '22) is the Technical Director for the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. As the Technical Director, she oversees the lifecycle of audiovisual media digitization and has formed partnerships with Entre Film Center, Project Row Houses... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 2:30pm - 4:00pm CST
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3:15pm CST

Artists and Archives: A Model for Community Engaged Archives at Visual Studies Workshop
Friday December 6, 2024 3:15pm - 3:45pm CST
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How do collaborations between artists, community members and archives push forward archival methodologies and practices? This session will present strategies of curatorial and artistic modes of collaboration within the archive, using Visual Studies Workshop (VSW) as a case study. Artist/filmmaker and curator Tara Merenda Nelson and curator, scholar, and archivist, Almudena Escobar López will co-present on the central role of the archives within VSW’s public programming initiatives. Merenda Nelson will present on VSW’s Community Curator Program and the seasonal Salon series that directly connect members of the community with VSW archives, as well as the media transfer laboratory. Escobar López will discuss VSW’s artistic residencies and their use of archives as an example of archival intervention and inquiry.
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Almudena Escobar Lopez

Toronto Metropolitan University
Almudena Escobar López is a scholar, curator, and archivist based in Tkaronto. She is Assistant Professor on Film History, Film Preservation and Collection Management at the School of Image Arts of the Toronto Metropolitan University. She holds a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies... Read More →
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Tara Merenda Nelson

Visual Studies Workshop
Tara Merenda Nelson is the Curator and Director of Public Programs at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY, where she oversees a collection of over 10,000 16mm film and early video titles. Tara is the lead programmer for the VSW Salon series, and is the Managing Editor for VSW... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 3:15pm - 3:45pm CST
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3:15pm CST

Hack Day Awards
Friday December 6, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
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Earlier in the week practitioners and managers of digital audiovisual collections joined with developers and engineers for an intense day of collaboration to develop and refine simple tools for digital audiovisual preservation and access. Today we’ll review their work and hear the results of some of these collaborations.
Speakers
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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 →
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David Rodriquez

Florida State University
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Annie Schweikert

Digital Archivist, Stanford Libraries
Annie Schweikert (she/her/hers) is a digital archivist at Stanford Libraries, where she processes, preserves, and makes accessible born-digital archival collections. She is a graduate of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program at New York University. Annie is also... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
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3:15pm CST

Supporting Federal AV Accessibility: New FADGI Guidelines and Software Updates
Friday December 6, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
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Since 2021 the Federal Agency Digital Guidelines Initiative (FADGI) Audio-Visual Working Group has maintained an active Accessibility Subgroup focused on documenting accessibility guidelines and processes for cultural heritage institutions and supporting accessibility features in AV archives tools. At this session FADGI and project partners will present lightning talks on the subgroup’s initiatives and related work. Improvements and feature enhancements to embARC, vrecord, BWF MetaEdit, and ffmpeg will be discussed, as will four recent FADGI publications: Definitions for Key Accessibility Features for Digital Audiovisual Collections Content, Software Accessibility for Open Source Digital Preservation Applications, Guidelines: Embedded Metadata in WebVTT Files, and The Current State of Accessibility Features for Audiovisual Collections Content in Five FADGI Institutions. The subgroup’s products assist archives and libraries to serve users who are blind, have low vision, are deaf or hard of hearing, prefer to read transcripts and subtitles, or prefer sign language.
Speakers
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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 →
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Chris Lacinak

President, AVP
As the Founder and CEO of digital asset management consulting firm, AVP (https://weareavp.com), Chris has spent nearly two decades partnering with and guiding over 250 organizations on how to put digital assets at the fingertips of users, making them easier to access, share, protect... Read More →
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Bertram Lyons

Medex
Bertram has over 20 years of experience leading consultants and development teams to create innovative, flexible, and user-center software for clients where digital assets are a core function of their organization. Before founding Medex Forensics, Bert served as Managing Director... Read More →
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Crystal Sanchez

Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian Institution
Crystal Sanchez is a media archivist at the Smithsonian Institution on the Digital Asset Management team (DAMS), working with digital audiovisual collections from across the Smithsonian’s diverse Museums, Archives, Libraries, Research Centers, and the Zoo. As a moving image archivist... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 3:15pm - 4:15pm CST
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3:45pm CST

The Art of Archiving Video Art
Friday December 6, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm CST
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Throughout the 1970s, video artists were studying, deconstructing, and recomposing surplus scientific and consumer video equipment in pursuit of new technological languages. What emerged from this period of invention were hand built video tools such as the PaikAbe synthesizer and the Jones analog/digital synthesizers - machines that had been custom crafted (or ‘hacked’) by artists who were pushing the boundaries of existing technologies to create instruments that could serve a purpose beyond that which was deemed commercially desirable. Fifty years later, the work made by these innovators requires equally inventive workflows and technologies in order to be preserved. This session will explore archivist Nilson Carroll’s (Visual Studies Workshop) preservation of works made by video artist Peer Bode (Experimental Television Center, Institute for Electronic Arts) in the 1970s. Carroll has been working closely with Bode to preserve the artist’s early experiments recorded on ½” videotape, many of which feature “glitches” that push the video signal to its limits or display the signal in new ways. Examples of Bode’s tapes will be shown and the problem solving that went into the preservation of those tapes will be discussed.
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Nilson Carroll

Visual Studies Workshop
Nilson Carroll is the Assistant Curator and Preservation Specialist at Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, New York. At VSW, Nilson manages the Media Transfer Lab and specializes in the preservation of videotapes. Nilson has worked to preserve and make accessible large portions... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 3:45pm - 4:15pm CST
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4:30pm CST

No Past-Proofing: Eliminating Film Printing from Motion Picture Archiving
Friday December 6, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm CST
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Film was the best and only choice shooting, finishing, exhibition, and archiving of theatrical motion pictures for over a century, and has been eclipsed in the past 25 years by digital technologies. However, in spite of the near-obliteration of film infrastructure at every step of the process, that long history has led many to believe that film remains that best choice for long-term archiving, This paper will detail the “before” (the starting points of restorations and contemporary movies) and the “after” (what deliverables will be needed in 100 years). Focus will also be given to three often-overlooked factors: the long-term cost of film and its migration problems; the inability of film to archive sound; and the reliability of digital archiving, including how common mistakes can be avoided. The goal remains to make, finish, and archive motion pictures in a truly future-proof, and not a past-proof, manner.
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Larry Blake

Swelltone
Larry Blake is a supervising sound editor/re-recording mixer of feature films. He has mixed more than 65 narrative features since 1989, and was also the supervising sound editor on 55 of them. Included in this number are 33 features and four television seasons with Steven Soderbergh... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 4:30pm - 5:00pm CST
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4:30pm CST

Contemporary Challenges for Nitrate Film Collections - Storage, Use and Access
Friday December 6, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
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Nitrate film is often one of the oldest materials held in audiovisual collections. It is a challenging format; stable when stored in good conditions but potentially dangerous when poorly managed. With the development of scanning technology that captures the unique tints and tones of nitrate many archives are pursuing active programs of digitisation and access. This raises some interesting challenges with the movement and handling of nitrate materials and whether our current procedures accurately reflect the actual risks of the format. Do we really understand when nitrate is dangerous? Should we reconsider storage conditions when building new facilities? Do we have the right information available to determine and manage the risks AND to ensure that beautiful nitrate film content is available to our audiences.
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Staci Hogsett

Head of Collection Services, UCLA Film & Television Archive
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Courtney Holschuh

Library of Congress
Courtney Holschuh is an Archives Technician in the nitrate film vaults at The Library of Congress National Audio-Visual Conservation Center where she has been caring for the Library's vast collection of 145,000 nitrate film reels since 2023. From 2018 to 2023, she was a Senior Film... Read More →
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Prue Castles

National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Prue Castles is the Conservation Manager at the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA). Graduating with a Masters in Conservation of Cultural Materials from the University of Canberra and working in the museum sector she now oversees the conservation activities at the... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
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4:30pm CST

Navigating Rights and Usage: Best Practices for Accepting Donations
Friday December 6, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
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This panel aims to guide archivists on the critical process of negotiating rights before accepting audiovisual donations. Our goal is to empower attendees with the necessary knowledge and tools to establish clear rights agreements and ensure ethical usage of donated materials, thus enhancing their collections' value and accessibility. The panel will emphasize best practices for acquiring news and documentary collections, highlighting the importance of addressing rights at the point of acquisition.
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Karen Cariani

Exectuive Director GBH Archive, WGBH Archives
Karen Cariani, is the David O. Ives Executive Director of the GBH Archives and GBH Project Director for the American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a collaboration with the Library of Congress to preserve and provide a centralized on-line access to content created by public media... Read More →
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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 →
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Greg Cram

Director of Copyright, Permissions and Information Policy, New York Public Library
Greg Cram is the Director of Copyright, Permissions and Information Policy at The New York Public Library. Greg endeavors to make the Library’s collections broadly available to researchers and the public. He is responsible for developing and implementing policies and practices around... Read More →
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Lance Watsky

Filmic Technologies
Lance Watsky is a seasoned Motion Picture Archivist with nearly thirty years of experience in preserving, digitizing, and licensing film collections for museums, libraries, archives, and companies. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Fine Arts from the University of South Florida and a... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
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4:30pm CST

The Community Speaks: Engagement & Experiences from the DVRescue Project
Friday December 6, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
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This panel will focus on community engagement and participation in the DVRescue Project. Since 2019, MIPoPS and RiceCapades has worked on the NEH funded DVRescue project, developing the procedures, tools and documentation to assist audiovisual archivists with preserving their DV videotapes. Through this work, we have developed, tested and modified a variety of tools and documentation that encompass a set of best practices we recommend to the greater archival community for all aspects of DV videotape preservation, including capturing, troubleshooting, analyzing, and quality control. The DVRescue team will provide some updates on the project and demonstrate the latest builds. Members of the archival community participating in the DVRescue project will describe their experience and practical application of the tools.
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Kelly Haydon

Human Rights Watch & XFR Collective
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Libby Hopfauf

Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound/Seattle Municipal Archives
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CK Ming

National Museum of African American History
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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 →
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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 →
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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 →
Friday December 6, 2024 4:30pm - 5:30pm CST
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5:00pm CST

Insights from the Cinema’s First Nasty Women Audience Demographics Survey
Friday December 6, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm CST
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Cinema’s First Nasty Women is a multi-part research, curation, and outreach project focused on expanding critical engagement with long-overlooked feminist films and filmmakers of the silent period. This session will present the results of the project’s most recent study: a demographics and attitudes survey of contemporary silent cinema audiences. The anonymous online survey was issued in spring of 2024, and received more than 3,000 responses. Survey questions covered basic demographic data, film viewing habits, exposure to silent cinema, familiarity with silent cinema organizations, and interest in feminist film scholarship. Presentation attendees can expect to come away with a more accurate understanding of the silent film community’s social profile in terms of gender, race, sexuality, age, and class. Analysis and discussion will explore practical takeaways for marketing, outreach, and advocacy decisions--but also raise questions about the purpose and impact of public programming.
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Maggie Hennefeld

CFnw Project Director
Maggie Hennefeld is Professor of Cultural Studies & Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. She is the author of Death by Laughter: Female Hysteria and Early Cinema (Columbia UP, 2024) and co-curator of the 4-disc DVD/Blu-ray set Cinema’s First Nasty... Read More →
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Laura Horak

CFNW Project Director
Laura Horak is Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University and director of the Transgender Media Lab and Transgender Media Portal. She investigates the history of transgender and queer film and media in the United States, Canada, and Sweden. She is co-curator of the 99-film Bluray... Read More →
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Russell Zych

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Russell Zych currently serves as a Media Preservation Technician at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Russell is also a Research Assistant for the Cinema's First Nasty Women project and a volunteer admin for TAPE Los Angeles, a nonprofit that provides low-cost video digitization... Read More →
Friday December 6, 2024 5:00pm - 5:30pm CST
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