Tuesdays, 6-10 PM, room 651, Fall 2005
Instructors: Howard
Besser & Ann Harris
Introduction to Moving Image
Archiving
& Preservation H72.1800
Sept 27 Perspectives
on Collecting, Conservation, and Preservation
see entire
syllabus
Assignments due before class:
- Sign up for library use class
- Come prepared to report on progress of Case Study
of Production
History assignment
- Read:
- Edmondson, Ray. Audiovisual
archiving: Philosophy and Principles. Paris: UNESCO, April
30, 2004 June (CI/2004/WS/2) (http://www.ccaaa.org/news_010504.htm)
- Brooks, Connie, "Videotape Preservation: Ethical
Considerations", Playback: A Preservation Primer for Video, p.
18-24. On reserve in Bobst Library and study center.
- Come with questions for panelists about archival
practice,
conservation practice, library preservation practice, and independent
preservationist practice.
- Recommended: View video Slow Fires: On the
Preservation of
the Human Record. Available in Bobst Library and in the Film Study
Center.
Agenda
- Panel discussion with:
- Jon Gartenberg, independent preservation consultant
- Carol Stringari, Senior Conservator, Contemporary Art,
Guggenheim Museum
- Duane Watson, retired Head of Conservation, New York
Public Library
- Barbara Mathe, Senior Special Collections
Librarian,American Museum of Natural History
- What are the basic guiding principles of
conservation/preservation coming from different professions and/or
communities? How were they shaped?
- How have they been utilized and/or affected by moving image
and recorded sound materials, through such factors as multiple copies,
"born digital" formats, and changing definitions of appropriate
archival mediums?
- Discussion Panel including professionals from different
organizations and fields
- What are some of the issues that the archive, conservation,
library and independent preservation communities are addressing with
regard to moving image and sound preservation?
- What are the role(s) of a moving image specialist in
relation to other professionals caring for moving images and sound
collections?
- Ray Edmundson, in Audiovisual
archiving:
Philosophy and Principles, proposes that moving image archiving is
evolving as a synthesis of other archiving and preservation practices.
What are the pros and cons of such an approach? What would be aspects
of this synthesis from various professions?
- What are ethical considerations are fundamental to our work
as moving image archiving and preservation specialists?
- Where do "de facto" archives - those organizations with
important materials but untrained as preservationists - fit?
- What is the role of producers in preservation practice?
- Discuss visit to Museum of Television and Radio
- Introduction to Risk Assessment for Film/Video/New Media
- Current Events (20 min)
- 'DVD
Fight Intensifies: Microsoft and Intel to Back Toshiba Format, NY Times, Sept
27, 2005
- Like
High-Def? Here Comes the Next Level, NY
Times, Sept
26, 2005
- Going
Deep for Digital, NY Times, Sept
26, 2005
- Compromised'
films attest to restorative power of DVD, USA Today, Sept 22, 2005
- Librarians
Must Stay Silent in Patriot Act Suit, Court Says, NY Times, Sept
21, 2005
- Writers
Sue Google, Accusing It of Copyright Violation, NY Times, Sept 21,
2005
- File-Sharing
Services Seek Pact With Record Studios, NY Times, Sept 20, 2005
- Texas
town gets first crack at Verizon TV, USA Today, Sept 22, 2005
- Mold
overtakes flooded city in a foul flourish, USA Today, Sept 21, 2005
- JetBlue
passengers watched their own ordeal on live TV, USA Today, Sept 22, 2005
- Assignment for next week
- Prepare for in-class presentation of Case Study of
Production History assignment.