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ARCHIVING THE ARTS | October 13, 2012 Program
Presented by
Association of Moving Image Archivists Student Chapter
at New York University
at New York University
Independent Media Arts Preservation
9:00 AM Registration Opens
9:45 AM Welcome
Jeff Martin - Executive Director, IMAP
Kathryn Gronsbell - Moving Image Archiving & Preservation, NYU and President, AMIA @ NYU
10:00 AM Preventive Preservation
Moderated by Seth Anderson - Digital Preservation Consultant, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
Ben Fino-Radin - Digital Conservator, Rhizome at the New Museum
| Collaborative Curation: Designing for Preservation
Michele L. Wozny - PEAR Writing Studios
| Partnering to Promote Best Practices to Preserve Independent Media Art
Yvonne Desmond - Dublin Institute for Technology
| ArtLog: an online participative archive facilitating artists to self document their artistic process
11:00 AM Technically Speaking: The Archivist, the Artist, and the Digital Realm
Kara Van Malssen, Senior Consultant, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
| Architecting the World's First Fine Art Digital Conservation Repository at the Museum of Modern Art
Matt Epler and Kate Watson - Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
| Intangible Interactivity: Tracing the History of an Art/Tech Program 1979-Present
11:45 AM Lunch
Not provided. Suggested destinations available at the registration table.
1:15 PM Discussion Forum - Selections from the Studio to the Archive
This session will serve as the basis for an upcoming IMAP workshop on issues raised at Archiving the Arts. We invite you to an informal, open-format discussion addressing preservation in the creative process. Presenters and attendees will tackle issues encountered by professionals and amateurs on both sides of the content divide. Special guests to be announced.
2:15 PM Break
2:30 PM Audiovisual Documentation of Transitory Works
Moderated by Erica Titkemeyer - Moving Image Archiving & Preservation, NYU
Megan McShea - Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Art
| Archives and the afterlife of ephemeral works of art
Paul Bryan - photographer/videographer/artist, art studio owner, BFA from Abilene Christian University
Jason Flowers - photographer/videographer/sound artist, BS in two-dimensional art from Central Michigan University
Holly Stevens - art historian/archivist with an MA in Art History from Northern Illinois University and MLIS from Wayne State University
| Creating Something Out of Nothing - documenting the short-lived on a shoestring
Aliee Chan/Bettina Katie Warshaw-Writers/Performers, Aliee & Bettina’s (sort of) Grown-Up Sleepover
| Capturing a New York Minute
4:00 PM Create / Restore / Migrate / Preserve - Media Arts Theories and Practices
Jonathan Furmanski - BA Reed College in Portland, OR; MFA Art Center College in Pasadena, CA; Associate Conservator for audiovisual materials at the Getty Research Institute
| Before I Got My Eye Put Out: The Cynthia Maughan Archive
| Practicing Preservation For and With Video Artists
Peter d’Agostino - Professor of Film and Media Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia
| An Artist’s Perspective
5:00 PM Farewell and adjourn
