Video Preservation Symposium

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• Symposium on Video Preservation Chronology

  Symposium on Video Preservation is hosted by the Museum of Modern Art and organized by Media Alliance, under the leadership of Mary Esbjornson, and by the New York State Council on the Arts.

• 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.

• 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.

• Learning More About Video Preservation Preservation

  Selected bibliography and online resource list for moving-image and audiovisual preservation, comprising journals, technical reports, handbooks, conference proceedings and institutional reports published between 1974 and 2001; contributors include AMIA, Ampex, 3M, UNESCO, FIAF, the Library of Congress and the National Archives. The record cites specific titles, articles and manuals, provides URLs for online bibliographies, and lists education and training programs and institutions such as Harvard, UCLA, George Eastman House, NYU, ARCHIMEDIA and the FIAF Summer School.

• The Sustainability of Video Art: Preservation of Dutch Video Art Collections Bibliography

  In the early 19902 the Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts began research into the preservation of video art. By 2003 a substantial portion of the video art in public collections has been preserved. Contents: Project Preservation Video Art. Preservation Method and technique. …