What kinds of things does our The MIAP Program field do? Howard Besser, Director Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts http://www.tisch.nyu.edu/preservation Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 NYU’s MIAP: A curriculum for 50 Years ago today studying Moving Image Archiving & Preservation • http://www.myfoxdc.com/story/23269278/ video-of-the-1963-march-on-washington- restored#axzz2dGCWQOAH • Film History/Historiography and Film Style • Conservation, Preservation, Storage, and Management • http://www.youtube.com/watch? • Legal Issues and Copyright v=claihYpVYjg (25:23, 27:37) • Laboratory Techniques • Moving Image Cataloging • http://blogs.archives.gov/mediamatters/ • Curatorial Work and Museum Studies 2013/08/22/preservationrestorationthemarch/ • Programming • http://blogs.archives.gov/mediamatters/ • New Media and other Digital Technologies • Access to Archival Holdings 2013/08/20/making-the-march/ Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Interdisciplinary; students need to Competencies – learn the context in which each of these cultural artifacts were made – know the history of changing formats • Handling film, video, new media, and understanding how these artifacts are – need to be scientists and technologists who understand: made • the process of color changes • how certain stocks become too brittle to provide a flat focus for copying • Collections assessment, risk assessment • how magnetic particles are laid on videotape and what causes the various types of • Selection & appraisal deterioration • Collection management (labeling, storage, cataloging) • how different computer files link and interact, (and how certain compression algorithms cause various types of loss) so that they can anticipate preservation problems of • Repair and transfer compressed and hyper-linked digital works • Navigating through different institutional cultures – strong organizational and classification skills so that they can manage these collections and help others find things they want in them. • Programming and exhibition – administrative skills to manage these large preservation repositories (whether they • Budgeting, justifying projects, and grant-writing be film, video, digital, or others). • Donor relations and intellectual property – understand that preservation does not exist in a vacuum, and that they may have to • Research & access become activists to prevent outside political forces from inadvertently trampling on our ability to preserve • Scholarship • Historical Research Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 1 Where do our students go to Ethics work? —conventional Film Archives • Readings touching on ethics and values in both our domain • Museo del Cine, Buenos Aires, (Philosophy of A/V Archiving) and related domains (Director) • National Film Archive, Philippines (Museum world--Enola Gay) (Director) • Examination of daily occurances for ethical and value- • Cineteca Nacional de Mexico based responses (news articles, “wardrobe malfunctions”, (Archivo Memoria Coordinator) ’ “ ” “ ” • NorthEast Historic Film (Technical Lucas restoration of THX, sound restoration ) Services Director) • Extensive discussions on contemporary incidents, and the • Pacific Film Archive (Archivist) role that the professional community should play in these • Academy of Motion Picture Arts – Screensound Australia and Sciences (Print Trafficker ) • Anthology Film Archives (Archival – BFI Consultant) (Digital Archivist) Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Where do our students go to Where do our students go to work?—Libraries/Museums/Archives work? —Other Non-Profits • NYPL – Library of Performing Arts, • Northwestern University Library • Bay Area Video Coalition • Canyon Cinema (Archivist) Dance Division, Reformatting Division, (Moving Image and Sound Preservation (Preservation Technician) • Electronic Arts Intermix (Media Wilson Project, (Archivist, Specialist ) • WNYC Radio (Archives Manager) Collection Manager) Technologist, Special Formats • Stanford University Library (Fellow) Specialist) • LC’s Preserving Digital Public • Pacifica Radio Archive (AACIP • The Kitchen (Archivist) • NYU - Bobst Library, (Preservation Television (Research Scholar) Cataloger) • Todo Mundo [David Byrne Fellow, A/V Lab Mgr, A/V • Rhode Island Historical Society (Film • PBS (Project Archivist & Archive)] (Audiovisual Archivist) Preservation Specialist) Archivist) Preservationist) • Vito Acconci (Archivist) • UCLA Library Preservation (A/V • Museum of Modern Art Conservation Specialist) • Democracy Now! (Digital • Gloria Steinem's Office (Archival Dept (Assistant Media Conservator) Archivist) Assistant) • Univ of Michigan Library (A/V • American Museum of Natural History Reformatting Specialist) • ONE National Gay and Lesbian (Margaret Meade Festival Coordinator) • StoryCorps Oral History (Historias • Univ of Virginia Library Info Tech (A/ Archive (Archivist) • Museum of the Moving Image, Archive Coordinator) V Preservation Specialist) (Registrar) • Appalshop (Archivist) • Standby Program (Preservation • Washington University Libraries, (A/V • Smithsonian (Hirshhorn Museum • Human Rights Watch (Multimedia Coordinator) Archivist) Research Fellow, History Museum Mgr) • Roundabout Theatre Company Lemelson Archivist) • Witness Media Archives (Archives Archives (Project Archivist) • NYC Transit Museum (Archivist) Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAPDepartment) Program, 8/28/13 • US Tennis Association (Archivist)" 1 Where do our students go to NYC Internships • ABC News Archive, NYC • Jewish Museum • Academy of Dramatic Arts • Laguardia Community College work? —Commercial Sector • American Museum of Natural History • Miramax Films • Anthology Film Archives • MTV Archives • CNN News Archive (Archivist) • ArtStor • Museum of Television and Radio • Audiovisual Preservation Solutions • Barnard College Archives (Paley Media Center) (Consultants) • Bobst Library, NYU • Museum of the Moving Image • Premier Retail Networks • Broadway Video • Museum of Modern Art (Archivist) • Brooklyn College Archives • New York Botanical Garden • Standby Program (Preservation • Cineric Labs • New York City Transit Museum Coordinator) • Duart Labs • New York Women in Film and • Electronic Arts Intermix Television • Towers Productions, Inc., Chicago, • NYPL- Library of Performing Arts IL (Chief Creative Officer) • ExitArt • Explorers Club • Orphan Film Symposium • Ugen Media (Business • Filmmakers Coop • Standby Program/Mercer Media Development) • Fox Movietone News • Thirteen/WNETUNICEF • Medianet (Account Manager) • Gartenberg Media Enterprise • Vidipax • Guggenheim Museum • Whitney Museum of American • Hadassah Archives, American Jewish ArtWITNESS Historical Society • WNYC Radio Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/30/128/28/13 1 2 Summer Internships outside NYC • Academy of Motion Picture Arts and • Pro-Tek Media Preservation Services Sciences • Rice University Visits & Practice with Equipment • American Film Genre Archive • Sacramento Archives and Museum (LC Dayton) • Appalshop, Kentucky Collection Center, CA • Archives of Appalachia, East • SafeSound, Philadelphia • Archivo Nacional, Brazil • San Francisco State University • Arizona State Library • Smithsonian Institution • Austin Film Festival • Stanford University Libraries • Buffalo State University • Steven Spielberg Archive, Hebrew • Chace Audio University, Jerusalem • Chicago Film Archives • Technicolor • Colorlab, Rockville MD • Tennessee State University • Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville • University of Alaska • Ghana Broadcasting Corporation • University of Baltimore • Harvard University Schlesinger Library • University of Ghana • Harvard University Film Archive • University of Hawaii • Korean Film Archive • University of South Carolina- Moving • LaserPacific Media Image Resource Center • Library Media Archives, U. Georgia • University of Southern California • Library of Congress, Preservation • Moving Image Archive Directorate • University of Texas • NorthEast Historic Film • Washington University •Besser-MIAP Pacifica Program,Radio 8/30/128/28/13 1 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Film & Video Storage & Color Restore (VidiPax) Handling (Anthology) Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Collection Assessments" Supporting Documentation (Anthology) --Personal Collections of Media Artists, Small Distributors • Coleen Fitzgibbon Films- Spr09 • Art21 Archive- Spr07 Third • Elaine Summer Collection- World Newsreel- Spr05 Spr09 • Willoughby Sharp Archive • Cory Arcangel + BEIGE- Spr09 Collection Assessment - Spr10 • Laurie Anderson –Spr08 • Fred Barney Taylor Collection- • Sonic Youth Video- Spr08 Spr10 • The Barbara Kopple My • On Television Collection- Generation Collection- Spr09 Spr10 • Bob Stein/Voyager Inc. • John F Kennedy (Gartenberg Collection Assessment- Spr10 Media)- Spr08 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/28/13 1 Besser-MIAP Program, 8/30/128/28/13 1 3 Collection Assessments" Collection Assessments" --Collections Housed in Arts Organizations --Collections Housed in Libraries, Archives • Dance Theatre of Harlem • Flaherty Film Seminar- • Maryland Historical Society- • World Music Institute Audio/ Collection Assessment- Spr07 Spr09 Video Archive- Spr06 • Mogull Brothers (Library of • Teo Masero Collection (New Spr10 • Eyebeam- SarSpr07 Congress) Collection - Spr09 York Public Library-Rodgers/ • The Kitchen- Spr08 • Frank Kuenstler Films • California State University, Hammerstein)-