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Student Work By Semester
- Spring 2009
- Fall 2008
- Introduction to MIAP
- Conservation and Preservation: Principles
- Access to Moving Image Collections
- Digital Preservation
- Moving Image and Sound: Basic Training
- Spring 2008
- Contemporary Cultural Institutions
- Conservation and Preservation: Principles
- Collection Management
- Directed Internship
- Film Preservation
- Handling Complex Media
- Thesis
- Fall 2007
- Introduction to MIAP
- Access to Moving Image Collections
- Digital Preservation
- Moving Image and Sound: Basic Training
- Video Preservation
- Spring 2007
- Fall 2006
- Access to Moving Image Collections
- Copyright for Moving Image Collections
- Moving Image and Sound: Basic Issues and Training
- Handling New Media
- Internships
- Spring 2006
- Contemporary Cultural Institutions
- Curating
- Digital Preservation
- Independent Study
- Thesis
- Internships
- Film Preservation
- Video Preservation
- Collection Management
- Fall 2005
- Handling New media
- The Collection, The Archive, The Museum
- Intro to MIAP
- Copyright, Legal Issues, and Policy
- Access to Moving Image Collections
- Summer 2005
- Spring 2005
- Digital Preservation and Restoration
- Contemporary Cultural Institutions
- Film Preservation
- Collection Management
- Video Preservation
- Fall 2004
- Film History/Historiography
- Handling New Media
- Intro to MIAP
- Spring 2004
- Fall 2003
- Intro to MIAP
Introduction to MIAP
Fall 2005
Case Study Projects
- Nan Rubin - "Beyond the Pale": Joann Sfar and Carol Delton Radio Shows (Word, 40K)
- Jim Hubbard: Two Marches (Word, 37K)
- Lynne Sachs & Ben Shapiro (Word, 49K)
Orphans Projects
- Orphans Project Write-Up: Master Hands (Word, 540K)
- Powerpoint, 6.2M
Final Projects
- Assessment of Hadassah's Film Collection (Word, 116K)
- Powerpoint, 8.9M
- The David Wojnarowicz Papers: Working Towards Access (Word, 80K)
- Asian American Filmmakers Collections in NYC (Word, 88K)
Fall 2004
Case Study Projects
- Sharon Greytak: Losing It
- PPT, 2.5M
- Nan Rubin and Ben Shapiro: The Hidden Jews of New Mexico
- Beverly Peterson: The Andre Show
- Lynne Sachs: Investigation of a Flame
- Jim Hubbard and George Stoney
Orphans Projects
- Television Pictures (1931) (Word, 68K)
Final Projects
- Donnell Media Center (Word, 46K)
- The Latin American Video Archives (L.A.V.A.) (Word, 93K)
- Powerpoint, 5.9M
- Excel, 24K
- Eyebeam.org/reblog: Assessing the Risks of a ReBlogging Web Log (Word, 56K)
- Museum or Emulation?: Exploring Preservation Strategies of Video Games (Word, 80K)
Fall 2003
Case Study Projects
- MM Serra: Divine Possibilities
- Hye-Jung Park: The Youth Channel (Word, 30K)
- Jeanne Liotta: Maria Movie
- Robin Schanzenbach
- Craig Marsden: La Lecon
- Diane Bertolo: Cyborg Oracle
- Living Voices/Voces Vidas
- The Uprising of '34
- Jim Hubbard: Memento Mori (PDF, 6.3M)
- Paper Tiger Television: Standing with Palestine
Orphans Projects
- Clips Movietone
- Jerusalem
- Round the Trip Made by Two Girls
- Looney Lenses
- Fox Movietone Newsreel: Javanese Dancers (Word, 56K)
- New York City Street Scenes and Noises (Word, 35K)
- Cairo
Final Projects
- Getting to the Soul of Soul of Reason: A Case for Preservation (Word, 70K)
- The Dawn of Tape: Transmission Device as Preservation Medium (PDF, 598K)
- Al Robbins (Word, 3.3M)
- The Retrospective of Peggy and Fred in Hell Preservation Perspectives of Historical Inversion, Interruption and Memory (Word, 217K)
- Technological History of Fox Movietone News (Word, 49K)
- Colorization (Word, 116K)
- Contemporary Chinese Independent Documentary Show
Contemporary Cultural Institutions
Spring 2008
Spring 2006
- Observational Study (Word, 569K)
- The International Center of Photography and the Tenement Museum (Word, 27K)
- National Film Archive of India, NFAI (Word, 37K)
- Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (Word, 40K)
Spring 2005
Spring 2004
- The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center (Word, 30K)
- New York Public Library; Guggenheim Museum (Word, 30K)
- Metropolitan Museum of Art (Word, 26K)
Conservation and Preservation: Principles
Spring 2008
Access to Moving Image Collections
Fall 2008
Fall 2007
Fall 2006
- Final Project/Paper (RTF, 16M)
- Final Project/Paper (RTF, 57K)
- Final Project/Paper (RTF, 66K)
- Final Project/Paper (RTF, 49K)
- Final Project/Paper (RTF, 42K)
Fall 2005
- Moving Image Indexing: Theory and Technology (PDF, 234K)
- Single Channel (Word, 56K)
- Advocacy Strategies for Audiovisual Archiving: Outreach, Influence, and Professionalism (Word, 132K)
Copyright for Moving Image Collections
Fall 2006
Fall 2005
- Transformers: Found Footage Artists (Word, 64K)
- Film piracy and National cinema: A tempestous relationship? (Word, 81K)
Handling Complex Media
Spring 2008
Fall 2006
- "My Trip to Liberty City," in comparison to the "Proun" work of El Lissitzsky (RTF, 6.8K)
- *.mov (QuickTime), JPEG2000, CD (Word, 45K)
- Avery Fisher Center CD-ROM Assessment: Ballet CD-ROM by Victoria Morgan (RTF, 34K)
- Considering 'New Media': Inasmuch As It Is Always Taking Place (1990; Gary Hill) against Raging Bull (1980; Martin Scorsese) (RTF, 7.0K)
- Windows Media Video (.wmv), .wav, Zip Disk (RTF, 9.1K)
- Distinctive Characteristics of Old and New Media: Jenny Holzer's Inflammatory Essays and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer's 33 Questions Per Minute (Word, 59K)
- MPEG-4 (.mp4) (RTF, 18K)
- DVD Player, DVD drive, DVD Recorder (RTF, 8.8K)
- DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) (RTF, 39K)
- Audio Interchange File Format (.aif, .aiff) (RTF, 13K)
- First Person: Marvin Minsky. The Society of Mind (Word, 471K)
- Interpreting the New Language: Comparing and Contrasting Old and New Media (Audio Works) (RTF, 10K)
- Jaz Drives (RTF, 18K)
- Windows Media Audio (RTF, 7.8K)
- MPEG2 (.mpg, .mpeg) (RTF, 10K)
- CD-ROM Assessment: The Rebecca Project (Word, 55K)
- Distinctive Characteristics of Old and New Media: Richard Serra's Boomerang and Chris Marker's Immemory (RTF, 26K)
- MP3 (RTF, 1.8K)
- Audio Video Interleaved, (AVI) (RTF, 2.2K)
- 5 ¼" floppy disk drive (RTF, 1.6K)
- 5 ¼" floppy disk format (RTF, 3.6K)
- Preservation Assessment: Nam June Paik's Untitled (1968) (Word, 217K)
- Media Conservation Record: Nam June Paik's Untitled (1968) (Word, 968K)
Fall 2005
- File Format Name: html (Word, 70K)
- Digital storage devices: DLT Drive (Word, 39K)
- CD-ROM Assessment (Word, 269K)
- CDROM: Yanomamo Interactive (PDF, 1.0M)
- File Format Name: .mp3 (Word, 39K)
- File Format Name: .aiff (Word, 54K)
- Digital storage devices: Jaz Drive (Word, 128K)
- CD ROM Preservation: Medieval Realms - Britain From 1066-1500 An Interactive Multimedia CD-ROM (Word, 45K)
- Digital Storage Devices: 5.25" Optical Drive (Word, 64K)
- "Strongbad Answering His Email," "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Text-Based Video Game" (Word, 56K)
- BAR-MIN-SKI: Consumer Product (Word, 559K)
- Comic Book to CD-ROM: Maus (Word, 39K)
- File Format Name:.mov (Rich Text Format, 21K)
- Digital Storage Devices: Zip Drive (Rich Text Format, 263K)
- Distinctive Characteristics of Old and New Media (Word, 35K)
- Patchwork Girl by Shelley Jackson - Risk Assessment and Structure of an Interactive CD-ROM (Word, 274K)
Fall 2004
- Digital Storage Devices: Zip disk (Word, 38K)
- Digital Storage Devices: Zip drive (Word, 44K)
- Internet Radio and the Implications Surrounding its Preservation (Word, 58K)
- File Format Name: aiff (Word, 41K)
- File Format Name: mp3 (Word, 47K) by
- File Format Name: wav (Word, 45K) by
- Digital Storage Devices: Floptical Drive (Word, 33K)
- File Format Name: gif (Word, 33K)
- File Format Name: tif (Word, 30K)
- Criterion Goes to the Movies: A Buyer's Guide (Word, 39K)
Curating Moving Images
Spring 2007
- Double Surfaces of the Female Self (PDF, 1.6M
- Cinema Ex Machina: Movies and Machines Between the Two World Wars (Word, 443K)
- It Used to Be about the Music, Man: Rock 'n' Roll Fan Movies and the Post Facto Creation of the Nostalgia Market (Word, 76K)
- Jonas Mekas: The Beauty of Friends Being Together Quartet: An Exhibition Evaluation (Word, 71K)
- Archive Fever (Word, 46K)
- Soundies, Scopitones and 'Interwebs': The Alternate Distribution of Music Videos (Word, 49K)
- Series Prospectus: Shore Theatre (Word, 247K)
- Breaking the Silence: Queer Identity and the Rhetoric of Silence in American Cinema (Word, 221K)
- Artists Moving Their Images: Makers working across media (Word, 208K)
- Retrospective look at Emerging Asian Male Stars (Word, 494K)
Spring 2006
Digital Preservation
Fall 2007
- Shocking and Awful: A Grassroots Response to War and Occupation / Best Practices Report for Deep Television (Word, 95K)
- Best Practices Outline for Deep Dish Television (Word, 83K)
- Media File Formats History File (Excel, 41K)
- Apple History Timeline (Word, 1.4M)
- Deep Dish Media Archive: Contents, Organization and Storage (Word, 30K)
- Non-linear Video Editing History (Word, 87K)
- Timeline Website Files
- Windows Timeline (Word, 117K)
- Storage Options for Digital Files (Word, 48K)
- Deep Dish Case Study: Preservation Research on XML (Rich Text Format, 10K)
- Digital Storage Timeline (Word, 93K)
- Audio/video File Formats (Word, 67K)
- Personal Computer Timeline (Word, 98K)
- Recommendations on the Use of EDL (Word, 35K)
- Apple Computer Timeline (Rich Text Format, 760K)
- Comparing Technological Processes for Displaying Video Images (Word, 38K)
- Media Management (Word, 25K)
Spring 2006
Spring 2005
- Extent and Condition of Audio Materials (Word, 75K)
- Plan for the Preservation Department Audio Lab: Extent of Audio Materials (Word, 69K)
- Audio Preservation Plan - Elmer Holmes Bobst Library (Word, 58K)
Moving Image and Sound: Basic Issues and Training
Fall 2008
- Kinemacolor (Word, 115K)
- HDCAM-SR (Word, [an error occurred while processing this directive])
- HDCAM-SR Bibliography (Word, [an error occurred while processing this directive])
- D-5 (Word, 44K)
- D-5, Bibliography (Word, 68K)
- Small-Gauge Magnetic Striped Film (Word, 78K)
- 28mm Amateur Film Format (Word, 103K)
- Sony CV Videocorder (Word, 141K)
- Sony CV Videocorder, Bibliography (Word, 168K)
- Betamax (Word, 51K)
- Betamax, Bibliography (Word, 47K)
Fall 2007
- Bigger, Sharper, Better! The Story of VistaVision(Word, 48K)
- Bigger, Sharper, Better! The Story of VistaVision / Bibliography(Word, 25K)
- DVCAM: A History and Speculation on a Format(Word, 73K)
- 9.5mm(Word, 70K)
- 1/2" EIAJ Open Reel Video(Word, 181K)
- 1-inch Type C Video: The Broadcast Standard(Word, 61K)
Fall 2006
- Better Living Through Optics?: The Rise and Crash of ToddAO (Word, 68K)
- Better Living Through Optics?: The Rise and Crash of ToddAO (Powerpoint, 8.1M)
- Final Report on IMAX (Word, 200K)
- The Akai Quarter-Inch Video System, Briefly (Word, 34K)
- Bibliography (Word, 32K) to The Akai Quarter-Inch Video System, Briefly
- Format Paper (Word, 39K)
- Bibliography (Word, 31K) to Format Paper
- Technicolor 1/4" Compact Videocassette (Powerpoint, 327K)
- Super 8: Format History (Word, 47K)
- Bibliography (Word, 32K) to Super 8: Format History
- Super 8: Format History (Powerpoint, 1.1M)
Directed Internship - Private
Spring 2008
Spring 2007
Spring 2006
Collection Management
Spring 2008
Spring 2007
Spring 2006
- Asian CineVision
Spring 2005
Spring 2004
The Collection, The Archive, The Museum
Fall 2005
- Cambodia (Word, 81K)
- Aligning the Artist as Collector (PDF, 146K)
Fim Preservation
Spring 2007
- Preservation History of Rain Dance by Helen Hill (PDF, 72K)
- Still from Rain Dance (PNG, 228K)
- Still from Rain Dance (PNG, 273K)
- Still from Rain Dance (PNG, 169K)
Spring 2006
- NFPF Avant-Garde Masters Grant (Word, 52K)
Spring 2005
- Chuck's Will's Widow (Word, 25K)
Video Preservation
Fall 2007
Spring 2006
- Equipment: Time Base Corrector (Word, 26K)
- Interview with Sarah Ziebell (Word, 55K)
- Bobst Video Preservation Lab: Specifications of this machine (Word, 72K)
- PDF, 97K
Spring 2005
- Prioritization, Selection and Inspection (Word, 40K)
- Mini-DV Bibliography (Word, 34K)
- Guidelines for Documentation in Bobst's Moving Image Preservation Department (Word, 38K)
Summer Internship
Summer 2005
Independent Study
Spring 2006
Thesis
Spring 2008
- Home Movies' Second Audience: Re-contextualizing Silent Homemade Films
Spring 2007
Spring 2006
- Preservation Services for Audio Visual Media Material: An Inquiry into Current and Future Models (PDF, 279K)
- Powerpoint, 346K
- Avant-Garde Won&39;t Wait! Archiving and Preserving Experimental Film
- Preserving the Ephemeral: An Approach to Time-Based Public Art
- Disaster Planning And Recovery: Post-Katrina Lessons For Mixed Media Collections (Word, 395K)
- Word, 378K
- Artists, Activists, Neighbors and Strippers: Preserving the Legacy of Public Access Television
- The Eye Beholds: Silent Era Industrial Film and The Bureau of Commercial Economics (PDF, 4.8M)
Spring 2005
- Beyond The Wall Label: Moving Images in the Archives of the Brooklyn Museum (Word, 377K)
- Issues of Appraisal and Selection of Community Based Video: Assessing the Videofreex Collection
- Don't Touch That Dial: Assessing the Radio Series 'Soul of Reason'
- The Development and Current Condition of Local Chinese TV stations in New York City
- Ah, the Giraffe Dance! I remember It Well: The Transformation of a Film Collection into an Audio–Visual Collection
- Collecting Couture: The Moving Image Collection of the Conde Nast Publications Archive