- After Collapse: Rebuilding Expressive Media Post Currents Chronology
After Collapse: Rebuilding Expressive Media Post Currents 1989. Curator: Neil Zusman. Artists included Peter Babula, Peer Bode, Tyrone Georgiou, Ralph Hocking, Megan Roberts, Raymond Ghirardo, Cork Marcheschi, Paul Sharits, Vibeke Sorensen, Kathy High, John Knecht, Dan Reeves, Neil Zusman
- Agenda Preservation
Looking Back/Looking Forward: A Symposium on Electronic Media Preservation convened May 31–June 1, 2002 at Downtown Community Television Center with a reception at MercerMedia. Organized by the Experimental Television Center with IMAP and Bay Area Video Coalition and funded by the NYS Council on the Arts Electronic Media and Film Program, the program covered physical preservation and remastering (including 1/2” open reel workflows), economics, media formats, collection assessment and documentation of artists’ instruments and ephemera, with presentations by Luke Hones, Heather Weaver, Kacey Koeberer, Mona Jimenez and Sarah Stauderman.
- Images from Looking Back/Looking Forward Preservation
Looking Back/Looking Forward is a photographic record of a symposium on electronic media preservation held May 31 and June 1, 2002; the page presents images and captions from the event. Participants and subjects identified include Tony Bannon; Barbara London; Joel Chadabe; Steina and Woody Vasulka; Dan Summer; Elizabeth Weatherford; Pip Laurenson; Luke Hones; Bill Etra; Gerald O?Grady; Jean Gagnon; Karen Helmerson; Kate Horsfield; Debby Silverfine; Carole Lazio; Rachael Melman; Jim Hubbard; Kenneth Schlesinger; Mercer Media; Bill Seery; Robin Schanzenbach; and Arthur Tsuchiya.
- Preserving the Immaterial: A Conference on Variable Media Chronology
Preserving the Immaterial: A Conference on variable Media convened at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on March 30–31, 2001; it focused on the museum's Variable Media Initiative and examined case studies of artworks in ephemeral media, including photo collages, film performances, video installations and Web sites. Artists, curators, conservators and media experts debated strategies for safeguarding works against deterioration, technological obsolescence and cultural amnesia. The program was organized by John G. Hanhardt, Senior Curator, and Jon Ippolito, Assistant Curator, Film and Media Arts Program; studied artists included Jan Dibbets, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Ken Jacobs, Robert Morris, Mark Napier, Nam June Paik and Meg Webster.
- The Media Arts In Transition Bibliography
Texts by Ron Green, Brian O'Doherty, VIrgil Grillo, Gene Youngblood, Howard Wise, Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Nam June Paik, Shirley Clarke, Ed Emshwiller, Tony Conrad, Alvey Ray Smith, Frank Hodsoll, B. Ruby RIch, Renee Tajima, Barbara London, John Giancola, Jon Alpert, George Stoney, Bill Viola an…
- Video Preservation: Securing the Future of the Past Preservation
Media Alliance launched a video preservation initiative in 1991 and, in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts, convened a symposium at the Museum of Modern Art on June 14, 1991; over 60 participants from as far as San Francisco and Toronto attended and MoMA sponsored an evening screening organized by Barbara London and Sally Berger. Presenters included Elizabeth Scheines, Leanne Mella, Mark Schubin, David Shulman and Deborah Silverfine; topics covered collection assessment, cataloging (MARC and NAMID), conservation technology, cleaning methods, formats and remastering costs. Media Alliance surveyed over 200 people and solicited funding support from NYSCA, NEA, NAMAC, CCUMC, the Benton Foundation and BAVC; Deirdre Boyle authored the report and Mary Esbjornson served as Executive Director and Project Director of the Video Preservation Initiative.