AMIA 2024

AMIA 2024

7:30am CST

Registration Desk Registration

9:00am CST

Film Restoration Essentials for Small Archives and Non-Profits WorkshopFabio Bedoya Hack Day WorkshopTim Lake • David Rodriquez • Annie Schweikert Legacy Equipment: Maintenance & Repair Workshop WorkshopSteve Davis • Jackie Jay • Kristin MacDonough

6:00pm CST

AMIA 2024 Opening Night Cocktails Other

7:30am CST

Registration Desk Registration

8:30am CST

Coffee & Tea Break Break

8:45am CST

AMIA 2024 Welcome & Keynote Keynote

11:00am CST

Diaspora Identities in Archival Home Movie Practice SessionAgata Zborowska Arkansas Voices: The Oral History Recordings of Dr. Johnye Strickland SessionAmanda McQueen Risk and Reward: What Archivists Should Know About Film Projection SessionBen Balcom • Lori Felker • Kevin Rice • Patricia Ledesma Villon The Jack Warner Scripts: A Case Study SessionHillary Howell • Randal Luckow • Alisha Perdue

12:00pm CST

Meeting: CAW Workshop Working Group Meeting Meeting: Education Committee Meeting Meeting: Publications Committee Meeting

12:30pm CST

Queer Exhibition and VHS Preservation ScreeningAllison Farrell • Julio Garcia

1:00pm CST

Meeting: LGBT Committee Meeting Meeting: News, Documentary, and Television Committee Meeting Meeting: Preservation Committee Meeting

2:00pm CST

No Reel Left Untouched - A Case Study of 150,000 Reels SessionGeetha Sanumathy • Mark Smirnoff Preparing Streaming Media for Accessibility: Three Organizations Share Their Efforts SessionWalter Forsberg • Jon Dunn • Heather Heckman • Crystal Sanchez • Rachael Stoeltje Best Practices for Use of Generative AI in Archival Documentaries Session, AI StreamStephanie Jenkins • Rachel Antell • Jennifer Petrucelli

2:30pm CST

Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology SessionSydney Perkins

3:00pm CST

Coffee & Tea Break Break

3:15pm CST

Serious Business: 1970s Feminist Film Distribution; A Site for Archival Knowledge SessionAmy Catherine Reid • Amy Reid Accompanying Documentation: What to Do With Paperwork Found in Film Cans RoundtableCourtney Holschuh Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago SessionAshley Dequilla • Rebecca Hall • Camille Townson • Moriah Ulinskas YouTube Do’s and Don’ts: Create, Manage, Monetize, Share SessionSkip Elsheimer • Elizabeth A Hansen • Mitch Peyser

3:45pm CST

The Preservation of Digital Live Performance Art SessionJenny Hsu

4:30pm CST

Cinema Slides: The Greatest Images Never Seen SessionRobert Byrne Introducing Moving Image Archives into Media Studies SessionJason Evans Groth • Josh Thorud Whisper AI Transcription, Human Implementation Session, AI StreamOwen King • Emily Lynema • Simon O’Riordan • Nina Rao

5:00pm CST

From Busby Berkeley to Frank Zappa: the Treasure Trove of Philip Jenkinson SessionRosie Rowan Taylor

5:30pm CST

In Plain Sight! Women Directors: Restoration Case Studies Session, ScreeningKirsten Larvick • Eva Yuma • Sandra Schulberg

7:30pm CST

Trivia Night 2024 Other, TriviaColleen Simpson Restoration Screening Screening

8:00am CST

Registration Desk Registration

9:00am CST

Coffee & Tea Break Break The Pavilion Pavilion

9:30am CST

Essential Yet Challenged: Decentralized Model of Film Preservation in China SessionYizhou Wei Building Professional Mentorship in the Field SessionC Díaz • Ashley Franks-McGill Looming Analog Sunset: Ensuring Long-Term Preservation of Your Organization's Past SessionCarin Forman • Andrea Kalas • Heidi Shakespeare • Linda Tadic Human-centered AI-assisted Video Cataloging Session, AI StreamOwen King • Caroline Mango • Raananah Sarid-Segal • Miranda Villesvik

10:00am CST

Preserving Community Memory in the Balkans Project Report SessionSiobhan Hagan • Kelli Hix

11:00am CST

AV Processing Strategies: the Holder and de Lavallade Papers SessionAnicka Austin GenAI and Archives: Understanding the Implications RoundtableRachel Antell • Jennifer Petrucelli Archiving Television: A Preview SessionOwen Gottlieb • Ruta Abolins • Eric Hoyt • Hugo Ljungbäck Developing a National Network of Magnetic Media Preservation Training Sites SessionTim Lake • C Díaz • Henry Apodaca • Kelli Hix • Zachary Rutland Lessons Learned from the Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship SessionRebecca Fraimow • Aida Garrido • Jackie Jay • David Sohl • Michelle Moriarity Witt

11:30am CST

A Nonprofit Archive Primer: Show and Tell with Deserted Films SessionMelissa Dollman • Devin Orgeron

12:00pm CST

Meeting: Disaster Preparedness/Recovery Meeting Meeting: Open Source Committee Meeting Meeting: Oral History Committee Meeting Audiovisual Archiving and Preservation at the University of Houston PosterJohana Canales Broadcasting Baltimore: Digitizing and Describing Hidden Histories PosterJoana Stillwell Godard's History of Cinema: AI Transcription Protocols PosterNicholas Avedisian-Cohen Poster Session I Poster Responsibly Stewarding for Others: Preserving Armenian Culture PosterLinda Smith Stanley Kubrick's First Three Films Poster The 8-Files: Investigating the Mysteries of 8mm Video Transfers PosterBrianna Toth

12:30pm CST

Staff Picks from the Prelinger Archives ScreeningEmily Chao • Kate Dollenmayer • Adrianne Finelli • Kristin Lipska • Jennifer Miko • Megan Needels

1:00pm CST

Meeting: Next Steps for the International Outreach Committee Meeting Meeting: Small Gauge/Amateur Film Committee Meeting

2:00pm CST

Peliculas Caseras: Fostering Archival Autonomy and Empowerment Among Latine Communities SessionMarísa Hicks-Alcaraz • Yesenia Perez The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive SessionJimi Jones A Collaborative Effort: Born Digital Video Preservation Strategies at LC SessionLaura Drake Davis • Charles Hosale • Morgan Oscar Morel • Marcus A. Napier Who the F*ck is "Dr. Ted": Archiving Lost Pornographic Films SessionCamila Garcia Cabrera • Oscar Becher • Lindsay Erin Miller • JMS Emberley • Lucy Talbot Allen

2:30pm CST

Digitizing, Documenting, and Working with All Your Dance Stuff SessionJenai Cutcher • Stephanie Neel

3:00pm CST

Coffee & Tea Break Break

3:15pm CST

AMIA Pathways Fellowship: Meet the 2024 Fellows SessionAutumn Armstrong • Janeth Delgado • Frances Cava Humphrey • Eve March • Justin Martin • Yasmin Mohaideen • Maryam Mustafa • Paula Roque-Rivera • Mercer Zervopoulos Archival Visibility: Preservation, Access, and Education with Milwaukee LGBTQ+ Collections SessionAbigail Nye • Shiraz Bhathena • Ann Hanlon Eames in the Castle: Preserving Films Made for the Smithsonian SessionWalter Forsberg • Amy Gallick “Degralescence” 10 Years Later: Community Solutions to a Mounting Predicament SessionAshley Blewer • Susie Cummings • Dan Hockstein • Libby Hopfauf • Nicole Martin • Brianna Toth

4:30pm CST

Establishing a Community Digitization Program for AV Materials SessionCallie Holmes • Thomas May DAR to be Different: Demystifying Aspect Ratio and Forming a Community Consensus SessionMorgan Oscar Morel • Dave Rice Homicide: Life on the Street – A Remaster Case Study SessionJen O'Leary Hashida • Casey Keltner • Cassandra Moore • Chase Schulte Preparing, Identifying, and Responding to the Archival Impacts Climate Change SessionKrista Hollis • Edward Benoit III • Jill Trepanier

5:00pm CST

Saving the Unsalvageable: An Unusual Preservation Approach for BW Reversal Film SessionDino Everett • Isabella Scaffidi

5:30pm CST

Grab a drink in the Pavilion! Other

7:00pm CST

Made in Milwaukee: Recent Experimental Films from the City ScreeningBen Balcom • Lori Felker • Hugo Ljungbäck

8:15pm CST

Screening of Queer Short Films by AMIA LGBT Committee ScreeningKristen Muenz

7:30am CST

Registration Desk Registration

8:15am CST

Coffee & Tea Break Break

8:30am CST

Closing Keynote: DAM in GLAM: A Vision for the Future KeynoteChris Lacinak

9:00am CST

The Pavilion Pavilion

9:45am CST

Elevating Autistic Voices Through Neuro-Affirming Practices in Audiovisual Archives SessionCasey Davis • Sam Fleishman Got Nitrate? Adventures Building a Nitrate Vault in 2024 SessionTim Knapp • Doug Sylvester Pathways Fellowship Alumni: Reports from the Field SessionAdira-Danique Philyaw • Rhana Tabrizi • Rai Terry • Sherly Torres • Camille Townson • Patricia Ledesma Villon • SHAN Wallace Walls of the Classroom Disappear: Early Educational Television 16mm Films SessionEmily Vinson • Matthew Wilcox

11:00am CST

Talk About Talkies SessionGeorge Blood Navigating AI Integration in Audiovisual Archives: Practice & Policy Session, AI StreamJohan Oomen A Decade of Preservation: Al Larvick Fund’s Home Movie Collaborations SessionDiana Little • Brian Belak • Kirsten Larvick • Jim Hubbard Archiving Film Culture: Collaborating to Increase Access and Outreach SessionOlivia Babler • Eric Hoyt • Mary Huelsbeck • Matt St. John

11:30am CST

The Future of LTO Technology in Digital Preservation SessionLarry Blake • Linda Tadic Exploring Experimental Machine Learning in Film Restoration Session, AI StreamFabio Bedoya

12:00pm CST

Alcoholism in Milwaukee: Remastering a WTMJ TV Newsreel PosterJames Pride Back to the Future: Past-Proofing NPR's Production Data Workflows PosterSusie Cummings Decentralized Web Storage - A Community Based Alternative PosterNicole Martin Doing Time w/John Dillinger: The Only True Crime is Not Preserving Your Collection PosterBrian Sargent Dr. Grace McFadden & The Quest for Civil Rights: A Look at South Carolina’s Civil Rights History PosterAdira-Danique Philyaw From Project to Permanent: Establishing WQED’s First Archives PosterMolly Tighe Poster Session II Poster Responsible AI in the Archive: Finding Equity in Partnerships Poster, AI StreamJimi Jones

1:00pm CST

Meeting: Conference Committee Meeting Meeting: Copyright Committee Meeting

2:00pm CST

Exploring 3D Printing for VCR and VTR Repair SessionAnthony Gonzalez Author, Author! An AMIA Publishing Roundtable SessionKaren Gracy • Peter B. Kaufman • Jimi Jones • Brian Real • Liza Palmer • Devin Orgeron • Anthony Silvestri • Michael Marlatt Transforming Audiovisual Archives with AI: Innovations, Challenges, and Ethical Considerations Session, AI StreamZack Ellis • Sandra Aguilar • Doug Boyd

2:30pm CST

DIY Video Lab: Crowdsourcing, Escaping Perfectionism, and Embracing Apprenticeship Models SessionAri Negovschi Regalado

3:00pm CST

Coffee & Tea Break Break

3:15pm CST

Artists and Archives: A Model for Community Engaged Archives at Visual Studies Workshop SessionAlmudena Escobar Lopez • Tara Merenda Nelson Large AI Models for Video Content Summarization Session, AI StreamKelley Lynch • Kyeongmin Rim Hack Day Awards SessionTim Lake • David Rodriquez • Annie Schweikert Supporting Federal AV Accessibility: New FADGI Guidelines and Software Updates SessionCharles Hosale • Chris Lacinak • Bertram Lyons • Crystal Sanchez

3:45pm CST

The Art of Archiving Video Art SessionNilson Carroll Enabling Integrated Access to Audio-Visual and Traditional Archives Using “Records-in-Contexts” Session, AI StreamJamie Lee

4:30pm CST

No Past-Proofing: Eliminating Film Printing from Motion Picture Archiving SessionLarry Blake Contemporary Challenges for Nitrate Film Collections - Storage, Use and Access SessionStaci Hogsett • Courtney Holschuh • Prue Castles Navigating Rights and Usage: Best Practices for Accepting Donations SessionKaren Cariani • Ruta Abolins • Greg Cram • Lance Watsky The Community Speaks: Engagement & Experiences from the DVRescue Project SessionKelly Haydon • Libby Hopfauf • Austin Miller • CK Ming • Morgan Oscar Morel • Dave Rice • Brianna Toth

5:00pm CST

Insights from the Cinema’s First Nasty Women Audience Demographics Survey SessionMaggie Hennefeld • Laura Horak • Russell Zych

6:30pm CST

Buses Loop to theatre Buses

7:30pm CST

Archival Screening Night Screening

8:30pm CST

Buses Loop back to hotel Buses

9:00am CST

Community Archiving Workshop WorkshopJustin Lemons • Grace Lile • Guadalupe Martinez • Kaitlyn Palone • Amy Sloper