Symposium on Video Preservation

Related records

• Video Preservation Symposium Bibliography

  Conference packet with agenda and list of participants. June 13 -14, 1991 at the Museum of Modern Art.

• 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.

• Introduction Preservation

  Looking Back/Looking Forward is a symposium on electronic media preservation organized by the Experimental Television Center; it invited 58 artists, conservators, media arts staff and technical experts and is an activity of the Center’s Video History Project (begun 1994). The Video History Website (launched 2000) hosts nine interrelated databases with about 3,500 records and a Bibliography of over 1,000 entries. The Preservation area includes the commissioned papers Video Preservation and Reel to Real; Bay Area Video Coalition, with NEA funding, will produce a DVD due end of 2002.

• Playback 1996: Video Preservation Roundtable Chronology

  Playback 1996: Video Preservation Roundtable was held in San Francisco on March 29–30 and organized by the Bay Area Video Coalition with assistance from Media Alliance; the international symposium was funded by the Getty Foundation and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The event is described as the first to build alliances between the media arts and art conservation.

• 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.

• Acknowledgements Preservation

  The Experimental Television Center (ETC) organized the symposium Looking Back/Looking Forward in association with Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP), Bay Area Video Coalition and the Electronic Media Specialty Group of the AIC; Downtown Community Television Center hosted the event. Funding came from the Electronic Media and Film Program of the NYS Council on the Arts, with assistance from IMAP, BAVC, MercerMedia and Dave Jones Design. The symposium organization was led by Sherry Miller Hocking and consultant Mona Jimenez; DB Rohlfs produced transcripts that were edited by Carolyn Tennant and Sherry Miller Hocking.