Just passing this along. Too bad it's during work hours :(. If anyone else goes, I've love to hear how it went.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ AnswersMedia Laura Fu Video Assets Manager 400 W. Erie Chicago, IL 60654 P: 312.421.0113 ext.5160 F: 312.421.1457 lau...@answersmediainc.com<mailto:lau...@answersmediainc.com> www.answersmediainc.com<http://www.answersmediainc.com/> www.answerstv.com<http://www.answerstv.com/> P Before printing, please think about the environment From: Shanck, Winter [mailto:sha...@thirteen.org] Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 9:43 AM To: SLA Solo Division Subject: [sla-dsol] IMAP's Videotape Preservation Workshop - Oct 15 - University of Chicago Film Studies Center Please repost this to any listserv that is relevant. Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) Presents a Workshop on Videotape Preservation Friday, October 15, 2010 1 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. at Film Studies Center, University of Chicago When videotape was introduced in 1956, the magnetic recording of a TV signal was a technological marvel. More than five decades (and 60 analog and digital formats) later, videotapes have recorded historic events, served as a means of artistic expression, and become priceless personal documents. Unfortunately, videotape has proven to be an unstable medium, and its recorded images will eventually require careful attention and well-planned action in order to survive. This half-day workshop will serve as an introduction to the issues and strategies necessary to tackle the challenges of videotape preservation. Designed to meet the needs of those with or without technical experience in video production, this workshop is geared to media makers and arts professionals, archivists, conservators, artists and other caretakers of media collections. The workshop will cover videotape's development and evolution, the basics of magnetic recording technology, formats, mitigation of deterioration, risk assessment, handling and inspection, preservation planning, best practices for storage, reformatting, and digitization. Presenter: Jeff Martin is a graduate of New York University's MA program in Moving Image Preservation and has been working with archival moving images for more than a decade as a television producer, researcher, and archivist. He has taught workshops in media preservation in Chicago under the auspices of Midwest Media Archives Alliance and at the International Center for Photography, New York. He developed the content for IMAP's online preservation resource guide (http://www.eai.org/resourceguide/preservation). He is presently a Fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, assessing their media collections. Workshop location: Film Studies Center 5811 South Ellis Ave., Cobb Hall Chicago, IL 60637 Phone: 773.702.8596 http://filmstudiescenter.uchicago.edu/ Space is limited. Register at www.imappreserve.org<http://www.imappreserve.org/> Inquiries: i...@imappreserve.org<mailto:i...@imappreserve.org> IMAP programs are supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and from individual contributions. Thank you Winter Shanck Archivist Thirteen/WNET450 West 33rd Street New York, NY 10001 P: 212-560-3067 F: 212-560-3199 --- You are currently subscribed to sla-dsol as: i...@walnutavenueresearch.com<mailto:i...@walnutavenueresearch.com>. To unsubscribe click here: http://sla.lyris.net/u?id=120797.6df40b25ac1d572cf6900484a4dae9ed&n=T&l=sla-dsol&o=16294395 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-16294395-120797.6df40b25ac1d572cf6900484a4dae...@sla.lyris.net<mailto:leave-16294395-120797.6df40b25ac1d572cf6900484a4dae...@sla.lyris.net> --- You are currently subscribed to sla-il-announce as: lau...@answersmediainc.com<mailto:lau...@answersmediainc.com>. To unsubscribe click here: http://sla.lyris.net/u?id=84683.7b2f696ca534a3d3632ab9b6270195c2&n=T&l=sla-il-announce&o=16294425 (It may be necessary to cut and paste the above URL if the line is broken) or send a blank email to leave-16294425-84683.7b2f696ca534a3d3632ab9b627019...@sla.lyris.net<mailto:leave-16294425-84683.7b2f696ca534a3d3632ab9b627019...@sla.lyris.net>
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
