Sharon Grace
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Video Tape Survival: The Cleaning, Time Base Correcting and Reformatting of Deteriorating Video Tape for Real to Reel: Artists' Video 1970-72 Preservation
Sharon Grace, artist and Director of the Video Documentation and Archiving Program at the San Francisco Art Institute, organized Real to Reel, Artists' Video 1970-72 presenting 1/2" open-reel work funded by the California Arts Council and San Francisco Art Institute. Grace collected tapes, borrowed playback decks and obtained subsidized use of a Harris 690 time base corrector from BAVC for reformatting. She reported environmental and mechanical causes of tape deterioration, cleaning methods, storage guidance (70 °F and 50% RH) and life-expectancy estimates (about five to ten years for 1/2" reels).