Deirdre Boyle

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• Deirdre Boyle People

  Deirdre Boyle authored Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited (Oxford, 1997), Video Classics: A Guide to Video Art and Documentary Tape (Oryx, 1986) and Video Preservation: Ensuring the Future of the Past (Media Alliance, 1993); she is senior core faculty, Graduate Media Studies, The New School for Social Research, New York. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Fulbright at Moscow State University, an Asian Cultural Council research grant, an ACE award (1988) and New School Universitys Distinguished Teaching Award. She organized exhibitions internationally and has written nearly 150 essays.

• Preservation

  Deirdre Boyle, historian and educator, testified at a 1996 hearing for the Report on the Study of American Television and Video, arguing that omission of video pioneers would render histories of American television and recent American social history incomplete and distorted. The page lists preservation resources: Video Preservation: The Basics by Sherry Miller Hocking and Mona Jimenez, described as an introduction covering cleaning, storage, cataloging and copyright and including glossaries, a bibliography and links; Reel to Real: A Case Study of BAVC's Remastering Model by Luke Hones, edited by Hocking and Jimenez; Looking Back / Looking Forward: A Symposium on Electronic Media Preservation; and selected historical texts on preservation.

• Background and History Preservation

  Experimental Television Center produced this guide and organized the Video History Project, documenting early video art and community television in upstate New York (1968–1980) through oral histories, a website and the Video History: Making Connections conference (Syracuse University, October 1998). The text cites Media Alliance and publications such as Deirdre Boyle's Video Preservation and the Magnetic Media Preservation Sourcebook, and notes IMAP's 1999 formation with New York State Council on the Arts and Rockefeller Foundation support. It outlines archivist functions, videotape deterioration modes and chronology of preservation activities through 2002.

• Meeting the Challenges of Video Preservation Chronology

  Meeting the Challenges of Video Preservation, by Jim Hubbard, with assistance from Mona Jimenez, is published by Media Alliance.

• Video History: Making Connections - Seminars

  Video Rewind: A Seminar on Early Video History (October 16, 1998) was a day-long seminar introducing curators, critics, librarians, archivists, funders, artists and students to independent video in America (1965–1980); it offered screenings, lectures and discussions on video art, documentary tapes and topics such as portapaks, closed-circuit video, collectives and cable TV. Seminar leader Deirdre Boyle (The New School) presented alongside Barbara London (Curator of Video, MoMA), Paul Ryan (McLuhan fellow) and Parry Teasdale (Videofreex). A full-day Video Preservation session, co-sponsored and organized by Media Alliance and Mona Jimenez, gathered representatives to report on preservation initiatives and funding trends.

• Video Preservation: A Report from the Trenches Preservation

  A Video Data Bank author reports on videotape preservation practice and supervised preservation of the Castelli-Sonnabend collection and the compilation of 65 titles for Surveying the First Decade; core procedures described include transfers among formats (1/2" open reel, 1" IVC, 3/4" U-matic, digital), cleaning, reference copies, two masters, cataloging and storage. He details technical problems (drop-out, skew, deck differences, TBC use) and aesthetic/legal dilemmas about edits and distribution; institutional activity by BAVC, Media Alliance and MoMA and funders such as the Andy Warhol Foundation and Getty Grant Program are noted. Events cited include Playback 1996 (SFMOMA, March 29–30) and Library of Congress hearings in March 1996 in New York, Washington, DC and Los Angeles; texts by Deirdre Boyle, Jim Hubbard and Jim Lindner are referenced.