About me
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, the Orange Show and others to preserve the moving image heritage of Texas. While at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, she oversaw the preservation of the Perry Miller Adato papers and films, ca. 1968-1982, a collection of over 4,700 audiovisual assets created by the late documentarian Perry Miller Adato. Prior to her tenure at UIUC, Ari received her BFA from California Institute of the Arts’ Film and Video Program, where she studied analog film and video technologies. She has also worked at the Autry Museum as an Exhibition Media Production Assistant for the award-winning Floral Journey: Native North American Beadwork, the 52nd Chicago International Film Festival, and as a film/video digitization technician at a boutique firm in Chicago.