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CURATEcamp AV Preservation

Media Preservation | Posted on: Tuesday, April 30, 2013

 

On April 19, CURATEcamp AVPres happened under the auspices of the AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) Open Source committee, and all signs point to a successful event. One of the eight physical sites was at BAVC, and we spent about half a day over Google Hangout and IRC chat,

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Preserving Abbie Hoffman

Media Preservation | Posted on: Wednesday, February 13, 2013

by Moriah Ulinskas, BAVC Preservation Director

We’ve been working all week on the preservation of some video reels Larry Rivers shot of Abbie Hoffman debating, then getting, a vasectomy.

Abbie Hoffman

It’s a bit silly and endearing, how much these two men

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The Art & Science of Virtualization: Interview w/ Mark Hellar

Media Preservation | Posted on: Friday, August 31, 2012

Scart.be has published the following interview with Mark Hellar, BAVC's Technology & Broadcast Engineer.

PACKED: Could you tell us about your background and how you began to work with media art in general?

Mark Hellar: My education is both training and some autodidact education. I have a humanities degree and I augmented that with evening classes.

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RIP George Stoney, media access pioneer

Media Preservation | Posted on: Friday, July 13, 2012

By Lauren Sorenson, BAVC Preservation Specialist

George Stoney, tireless media access pioneer and educator, passed away yesterday at the age of 96. Because of his amazing and innovative work, media access centers like BAVC are able to do the work we do of creating and distributing independent media!

Here are some tributes from our colleagues in the media access world:

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Someone Else's Glasses: Sam Green talks Buckminster Fuller

Media Preservation | Posted on: Wednesday, April 25, 2012

By Moriah Ulinskas, Preservation Program Director

Artist/ filmmaker Sam Green, beloved member of the BAVC community, is well known for his Academy Award nominated documentary THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND and, most recently his live documentary (a genre we’re pretty sure he invented) UTOPIA IN FOUR MOVEMENTS which premiered last year at Sundance. Recently BAVC’s Preservation Program preserved a video for Sam’s newest

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BAVC’s Audio Preservation Program is back!

Media Preservation | Posted on: Monday, January 09, 2012

by Moriah Ulinskas, Director of Preservation

After a brief hiatus, BAVC’s audio preservation program is back in action.  Established with a generous grant from Pamela and Richard Kramlich's New Art Trust, the audio preservation center boasts a Pro Tools LE editing system with two OTARI ¼” open-reel audio decks and a professional TASCAM audio cassette player, as well as a BOW 532 tape cleaning machine.

This past Fall we

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Day of Digital Archives!

Media Preservation | Posted on: Thursday, October 06, 2011

Analog video preservation and a site visit to a repair facility at the NASA Ames Research Center

by Lauren Sorensen, Preservation Specialist

Happy Day of Digital Archives! Our preservation department specifically works to preserve and provide support to archives with film, video, and moving image and audio material in their collections (including advising on

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Why Analog-to-Digital Video preservation, why NOW.

Media Preservation | Posted on: Wednesday, October 05, 2011

How I Learned (Almost) Everything I Know About ½” Video from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
by Moriah Ulinskas, Director of Preservation

Early this year I received a call from the librarian of Manchester University, a small, faith-based university, regarding a video recording they wanted to have preserved and transferred to an archival digital file. The video was a ½”

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Highlights from the annual ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) Conference

Media Preservation | Posted on: Tuesday, May 24, 2011

by Natalie, Preservation Intern

Highlights from the annual ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) conference in LA, May 11 - 15, 2011.

After interning with Preservation for the past 3 months, I've learned a lot about analog digitization and preservation, met some wonderful bay area archivists, and worked with interesting collections. My only regret is that I wasn't able to work on any audio projects. Moriah's consolation was tipping

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BAVC Newbie Lauren Sorensen

Media Preservation | Posted on: Wednesday, October 20, 2010

We're excited to welcome Lauren Sorensen to the team as BAVC's new Preservation Technician. Lauren is a graduate of NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program and also works at Canyon Cinema. Impressive as this is, no one is safe from the NEWBIE BLOG.
 
1. The story of your life starts out with which 10 words?
Bay Area born, fell in love with the moving pictures...

2. Do you know your

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