Claire Shaffer, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Collection Information & Digital Assets
This summer I interned at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, working with Joey Heinen in the Collection Information & Digital Assets department. I also worked closely with Jessica Gambling, a museum archivist in LACMA's library. My internship consisted of a wide range of tasks, including extracting and organizing PBCore metadata from a collection of hard drives belonging to LACMA's documentary production division; digitizing a small collection of Betacam tapes; and filing an identity report for "The Open Hand Is Blessed," a piece commissioned by LACMA in collaboration with Snapchat that was made using Snapchat's augmented reality technology. Overall, I would recommend this internship to anyone interested in conducting audiovisual archiving and preservation in the art world, or to anyone who wants experience working with a diverse array of unconventional time-based media.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
