Morgan Oscar Morel, BAVC PReservation Manager, Summer 2019

Preservation Director

Morgan Morel

MorganĀ Oscar Morel is the Manager of BAVC Media’s Preservation Department. He works to preserve the artistic heritage and cultural memory held on obsolete video media. He is most interested in preserving media created by underrepresented communities for community access programming in the mid-70s. This work can be challenging to digitize, butĀ MorganĀ knows the ins and outs of video signals, VTRs, tape formats, and digital preservation. He has spokenĀ at many archival conferences, and taught workshops on audiovisualĀ digitization and digital preservation. When not at work he can be found meditating to SMPTE bars and tone, contemplating the relationshipĀ between earth metals and video signals, and making abstract electronic music. His go-to karaoke tunes are House of the Rising Sun by the Animals and Thinkin Bout You by Frank Ocean.