7:00am - 8:00am - Clarion Hotel - Douglass Room
Education Committee Meeting
8:00am - Clarion Hotel
Buses leave for sessions
8:30am - 12:00pm - Kodak: Colonial Dining Room
MIC Registration Desk
8:30am - 8:45 am - Kodak: Theatre on the Ridge
IMAP Electronic Media Preservation Symposium: An Introduction
Hosted by: Independent Media Arts Preservation, Electronic Arts Intermix, and the Independent Media Interest Group
Chair: Dara Meyers-Kingsley, Electronic Arts Intermix
Speaker: Sarah Ziebell, New York University Libraries
Electronic media has been recognized as the new art form of our time, and the past decade has witnessed dramatic growth in educational, cultural, and private collections acquiring and exhibiting works of this type. With this development comes the imperative to manage and preserve media that is mutable at its very essence. From single-channel video to computer-based art composed of digital source code, time-based electronic media demands new vocabularies and practices for its collection, preservation, and exhibition. In this welcome address, Sarah Ziebell will set the stage for the Symposium, highlighting the overarching concepts that the panels will explore in detail regarding challenges and trends in the management and persistence of electronic media works.
8:30am - 10:00am - Kodak: SB2 A/B
Magnetic Media Assessment: Are we as Dynamic as our Media?
Hosted by: Preservation Committee
Chair: Chris Lacinak, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
Speakers:
Ian Gilmour, Media Matters
Jean-Louis Bigourdan, Image Permanence Institute at Rochester Institute of Technology
Chris Lacinak, AudioVisual Preservation Solutions
Assessing audiovisual signals stored on magnetic media has proven to be an evasive task. The lack of tools and the need for relevant training has left the moving image and sound archivist in a quandary over how to accurately assess the condition of the audiovisual signal.Most assessment efforts to date have combined visual inspection of the media and informal experiential and speculative data. The outcome has been used to determine broad prioritization plans for preservation work. These are broad brush stroke approaches that disregard the system aspects and are not focused, accurate or effective enough to inform solid preservation strategies or large expenditures. Panelists will discuss how to accurately assess dynamic audiovisual objects; provide an overview of related research and development projects; offer a report from the Image Permanence Institute’s Magnetic Media Study, and offer insight into advanced assessment methods and technologies.
8:30am - 10:00am - Kodak: Camera Club Theatre
Exhibit A: From Planning to Execution
Hosted by: Moving Image Related Material &
Documentation Interest Group
Co-Chairs:
Julie Lofthouse, Film Reference Library / TIFFG
Dr. Jan-Christopher Horak, UCLA-MIAS
Speakers:
Dr. Jan-Christopher Horak, UCLA - MIAS
Ron Magliozzi, MOMA
Vincent Beggs, Independent Development Services
Moving image archives are increasingly being asked to give access to their non-image materials, whether through loans or mounting exhibitions. Much must be taken into account when it comes to loaning material and/or conceptualizing, planning and executing exhibitions with these items. This session will review the various issues and best practices related to exhibits when objects of moving image material culture are at stake and provide information that will be useful to those involved in the planning, lending, borrowing, shipping and exhibition of such materials. Panelists will provide information and case studies relating to the general practices and requirements for curation including exhibit design, strategies for exhibition conceptualization and planning, as well as shipping requirements. This session will be useful to anyone in either the corporate or non-profit sphere from a large or small institution who potentially lends or borrows materials from another institution or is planning an exhibition (be it large or small).
8:30am - 10:00am - Kodak: IMM Conference Room
Recording Retribution: Issues in the Curation of, and Access to, Actuality Footage of War and Atrocity
Co-Chairs:
Regina M. Longo, Department of Film and Media Studies,
University of California at Santa Barbara
Leo Enticknap, Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds
Speakers:
Jane Fish, Film and Video Archive, Imperial War Museum
Adrian Wood, Inkulla Media
Lindsay Zarwell, Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
At a conference in London in October 1996, the veteran BBC war reporter Kate Adie justified the gathering of actuality footage of war crimes in the Bosnian Civil War on evidential grounds, while defending the right of journalists to ‘play nanny’ in determining, largely according to the criterion of public taste, what should and should not enter the public domain. Almost exactly a decade later, unauthorized footage of the execution of Saddam Hussein was taken on a mobile phone and almost immediately made available worldwide and uncut, on the Internet. It therefore seems an appropriate moment for a panel to examine the ethical issues facing the archivist in how access is provided to such footage. The panelists include prominent archivists, museum professionals and broadcasters, who will speak from various perspectives, drawing on case studies including the Holocaust and the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’.
8:45am - 10:30am - Kodak: Theatre on the Ridge
IMAP Electronic Media Preservation Symposium: The Documentation of Electronic Media Arts: Addressing Preservation Challenges
Hosted by: Independent Media Arts Preservation, Electronic Arts Intermix, and the Independent Media Interest Group
Chair: Ann Butler, New York University
Speakers:
Jeff Martin, Smithsonian Institution, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Carol Stringari, Guggenheim Museum
Michael Katchen, Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
Documentation is critical to making any preservation decisions.
Documentation, created as part of the production, exhibition, and reception of a media-based art work provides essential information not only for the historical interpretation of the work, but also for long-term collection management practices. This panel will address how caretakers are
tackling collection management issues for electronic media and the supporting materials that often accompany media collections. Ann Butler will discuss documentation strategies employed by archives for contemporary art mixed format collections. Jeff Martin will explore issues of documentation as they relate to technological obsolescence and will highlight the specific documentation tools that IMAP has developed. Carol Stringari will discuss documentation strategies from the perspective of a contemporary arts conservator and provide case study analysis of her work at the Guggenheim Museum. Michael Katchen will highlight some particular challenges in documenting and preserving new media works for the Franklin Furnace Archive.
10:30am - 12:00pm - Kodak: Camera Club Theatre
Once Upon a Move
Chair: Lynanne Schweighofer, Library of Congress
Speakers:
Mike Pogorzelski, Academy Film Archives
Liz Stanley, Library of Congress
Karen Cariani, WGBH
It is a dream come true. Years of hard work, stewardship, and advocacy have paid off and your moving image collection has a new dwelling to call home. The space has been built specifically to suit your collection’s
needs. It’s state-of-the-art. It’s beautiful! It’s EMPTY... Just how do you move an entire collection while maintaining high standards for preservation, public access, and your staff’s sanity? Don’t panic! The members of this panel have all played integral roles in recent moves and have lessons to share form their experiences. Three case studies will be presented followed by a question and answer session where audience members contemplating or facing a future move can pick the brains of people who “have been there and done that.” Whether you are the Director of the Archives or the archivist in the stacks, this session has something for you.
10:30am - 12:00pm - Kodak: IMM Conference Ctr
To Preserve and to Show: J2K and MXF for Film Archiving
Chair: Nicola Mazzanti, Consultant
(UCLA Film & TV Archive, Cinémathèque Royale)
Speakers:
Paul Read, Consultant / FIAF Technical Commission
Arne Nowak, Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS
Luís Nunes, MOG Solutions
Ian Gilmour, Media Matters
Moving Image archives have specific requirements and concerns for storing, preserving and providing access to their film and video collections, in a variety of formats and via a variety of platforms. The session will provide an update on the growing interest and research on the use of JPEG2000 and MXF as formats for preservation and access. The intended audience include archivists at various levels of skills and responsibilities (from management to technical departments) who are involved or plan to be involved in digital preservation and access. The topics will include an overview on the typical requirements of moving image archives, specific updates on projects relying on JPEG2000 and MXF for film and video content, and information on the situation on standardization issues. An open discussion with the audience is planned at the end.
10:30am - 12:00pm - Kodak: SB2 A/B
Changing Channels: Public Access TV
Hosted by: Independent Media Interest Group and the
News, Documentary, and Television Interest Group
Co-Chairs:
David Rice, Democracy Now!
Caroline Rubens, New York University
Speakers:
DeeDee Halleck, Deep Dish TV
Jennifer Wager, Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Erik Mollberg, Access Fort Wayne
David E. Renner, Penfield Community TV - PCTV
This session features selections of public access television material from the 30-plus years of its history. It will reflect the unique, marginalized, and highly independent voices that have used cable access channels, past and present. The selections will be culled from the heritage archives of public access centers, the personal collections of independent producers, and contemporary digital archives that are enabling the preservation and accessibility of this programming.
11:00am - 12:00pm - Kodak: Theatre on the Ridge
IMAP Electronic Media Preservation Symposium:
The Conserving New Media Panel - Part I
Hosted by: Independent Media Arts Preservation, Electronic Arts Intermix, and the Independent Media Interest Group
Co-Chairs:
Glenn Wahrton, Museum of Modern Art and NYU
Ann Butler, Fales Library and Special Collections,
New York University
Speakers:
Jennifer McCoy, Artist
Kevin McCoy, Artist
Frances Hwang, Artist
Ann Butler, Fales Library and Special Collections,
New York University
Glenn Wharton, Museum of Modern Art and NYU
This panel will address the challenges facing caretakers and creators of new media art. Following a discussion of documenting electronic media arts during the prior panel, the focus here will be the complex decisions made to shepherd these works into the future. During the first part of the session, media artists Jennifer & Kevin McCoy and Francis Hwang will present their video and Internet projects. During the second part of the session, Glenn Wharton (conservator) and Ann Butler (archivist) will interview the artists about their work to provide case study analysis of conservation issues. The panelists will then discuss recent currents in the field, including technical challenges and cross professional collaborations involved in conserving new media art.
12:00pm - Kodak
Buses leave for Clarion Hotel
12:30pm - 1:30pm - Clarion Hotel - Douglass Room
Elections Committee Meeting
12:30pm - 1:30pm - Clarion Hotel - Jordan Room
Moving Image Related Materials & Documentation Interest Group Meeting
12:30pm - 1:30pm - Clarion Hotel - Skyway Room
Small Gauge/Amateur Film Interest Group Meeting
1:30pm - Clarion Hotel
Buses leave for Screenings and Sessions
2:00pm - 3:30pm - George Eastman House
Screening: A Florida Enchantment
Hosted by: Academic-Archival and LGBT Interest Groups
and the Diversity Task Force
Chair: Lynne Kirste, Academy Film Archive
Speakers:
Mike Mashon, Library of Congress
Siobhan Somerville, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign
In this delightful 1914 comedic fantasy, a young heiress named Lillian finds some magic seeds that transform women into men and vice-versa. Lillian, her maid Jane, and Lillian’s fiancé Fred ingest the seeds, causing their behavior to change dramatically while their physical appearances remain basically the same. African American characters in the film are played by Caucasian actors in black face. Siobhan Somerville, author of Queering the Color Line: Race and the Invention of Homosexuality in American Culture , will speak about issues of race, gender and sexual orientation in A Florida Enchantment and facilitate audience discussion. MIke Mashon will talk about the film’s preservation. A Florida Enchantment was directed by Sidney Drew and runs 64 minutes.
2pm - 3pm - Clarion: Douglass Room
Preservation Committee Meeting
2pm - 3pm - Clarion: Eastman Room
Conference Committee Meeting
2pm - 3pm - Clarion: Fitzhugh Room
News, Doc & TV Interest Group Meeting
2:00pm - 3:15pm - Kodak: Theatre on the Ridge
IMAP Electronic Media Preservation Symposium:
The Conserving New Media Panel - Part II
Hosted by: Independent Media Arts Preservation, Electronic Arts Intermix, and the Independent Media Interest Group
Co-Chairs:
Glenn Wahrton, Museum of Modern Art and NYU
Ann Butler, Fales Library and Special Collections,
New York University
Speakers:
Jennifer McCoy, Artist
Kevin McCoy, Artist
Frances Hwang, Artist
Ann Butler, Fales Library and Special Collections,
New York University
Glenn Wharton, , Museum of Modern Art and NYU
This panel will address the challenges facing caretakers and creators of new media art. Following a discussion of documenting electronic media arts during the prior panel, the focus here will be the complex decisions made to shepherd these works into the future. During this second part of the session, Glenn Wharton (conservator) and Ann Butler (archivist) will interview the artists about their work to provide case study analysis of conservation issues. The panelists will then discuss recent currents in the field, including technical challenges and cross professional collaborations involved in conserving new media art.
3pm - 4pm - Clarion: McQuaid Room
Membership Committee Meeting
3:30pm - 5:00pm - Kodak: Theatre on the Ridge
IMAP Electronic Media Preservation Symposium:
History of Video Art: New York Pioneers
Hosted by: Independent Media Arts Preservation, Electronic Arts Intermix, and the Independent Media Interest Groupp
Chair: John Thomson, EAI- Electronic Arts Intermix
Speakers:
Sherry Miller-Hocking, Experimental TV Center
Debora Ryan, Everson Museum
Carolyn Tennant, Hallwalls
John Thomson , EAI- Electronic Arts Intermix
Pioneering New York State non-profit media centers, museums, and distributors will explore their roles in video history, their collection and preservation programs, and their attempts to make video art accessible. Sherry Miller Hocking will discuss the efforts of Experimental Television Center to give artists access to specialized media instruments and to preserve related ephemera, documentation, and video works. Debora Ryan of the Everson Museum will provide an overview of the history of video art at the museum, beginning in the early 1970s, and of their historical video art collection dating from 1970-1985. Carolyn Tennant will discuss Hallwall’s video archive, their collaboration with the University at Buffalo’s Poetry and Rare Book Archive, where their collection now lives, and the challenges of preserving and maintaining their archive. John Thomson will outline Electronic Arts Intermix’s leading international role in the preservation and distribution of video art.
3:30pm - 5:00pm - George Eastman House
Screening: Saturday Night at the Baths
Hosted by: Independent Media Interest Group and LGBT Interest Group
Chair: Randal Luckow, Turner Entertainment Networks
Speaker: May Haduong, Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT
Film Preservation
This movie is mandatory viewing for ’70s film buffs! Saturday Night at the Baths is an entertaining independent feature that captures the great music, fabulous clothing and optimism of New York City’s emerging gay culture. Censored in parts of the United States when it was released in 1975, Saturday Night at the Baths has rarely been screened since then. Recently, Director David Buckley deposited the original elements and a new exhibition print of the full-length version of Saturday Night at the Baths with the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation (a collaboration between Outfest and the UCLA Film & Television Archive). AMIA will present the first uncensored print of Saturday Night at the Baths made available since the film’s release. May Haduong, Outfest Legacy Project manager, will introduce the film, and briefly address archival challenges facing independent LGBT features.
5:00pm - Kodak and George Eastman House
Buses leave for Clarion Hotel
7:30pm - Clarion Hotel
Buses leave for Screenings at George Eastman House
8:00pm - George Eastman House - Dryden Theatre
Heavy Metal Parking Lot: The Films of Jeff Krulik
Jeff Krulik in Person
Muscle Cars! Spandex! Mullets and frizzy perms! Heavy Metal Parking Lot just may be the quintessential document of embarrassing culture in the 1980s. A real-life Spinal Tap filmed in a Maryland concert arena’s parking lot in 1986, it’s an unvarnished anthropological study of American headbangers in all their glory. Although he’s best known for this notorious short documentary, Washington, DC-based Jeff Krulik has produced a number of other fascinating and offbeat documentaries dealing with arcane pop culture. Krulik finds unusual people in normal situations or normal people in unusual situations and quickly zeros in on the ridiculous. In addition to Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986, 16 min.), this special program also includes King of Porn (1996, 7 min.), I Created Lancelot Link (1999, 15 min.), Obsessed With Jews (2000, 8 min.), Harry Potter Parking Lot (2000, 7 min.), and Hitler’s Hat (2003, 47 min.).
This is a ticketed event. If you signed up for the special screening, your ticket will be in your registration envelope.
8:00pm - George Eastman House - Curtis Theatre
IMAP Electronic Media Preservation Symposium:
History of Video Art: New York Pioneers Screening
Hosted by: Independent Media Arts Preservation, Electronic Arts Intermix, and the Independent Media Interest Groupp
Chair: Jim Hubbard, Media Artist & the Independent Filmmaker
Speaker: Skip Blumberg, video maker
This is a ticketed event. Tickets will be distributed at the IMAP Electronic Media Symposium during the day.
10:00 pm - 11:30 pm - Clarion Hotel: EFG Suites
AMIA Closing Night Dessert Reception
Please join us for AMIA’s seventeenth closing night reception.
