Alumni Active At Preservation Conferences

NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) MA Program, part of the Department of Cinema Studies in the Tisch School of the Arts, was well represented at the 2016 conference of the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), held in Washington, D.C., September 25-29, 2016. Rebecca Fraimow (MIAP '13) led a panel on "Building a Digital Preservation Community in Public Broadcasting," which included American Archive of Public Broadcasting National Digital Stewardship Residents Lorena Ramirez-Lopez (MIAP '15) and Eddy Colloton (MIAP '16). Kelly Haydon (MIAP '14) led a panel on "Quality in Quantity: QCTools for Mass-Digitization." Erica Titkemeyer (MIAP '13) led a panel on "Promoting IT and AV Preservation Collaboration in University Libraries."

MIAP's founding Director, Howard Besser, spoke about a collaborative research project with NYU Libraries and the Internet Archive, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, in his talk on "Issues in Archiving Music Composer Websites." Other MIAP grads in attendance included John Passmore (MIAP '09), Taylor McBride (MIAP '12), Emily Nabasny (MIAP '14), Pawarisa Nipawattanapong (MIAP '13), Joey Heinen (MIAP '14), and Julia Kim (MIAP '14).

MIAP alumni were also a strong presence at the fall 2016 meeting of the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG), hosted by the Museum of Modern Art, October 26-28, 2016. Kara Van Malssen (MIAP '06) gave a presentation titled, "How I learned to stop worrying and love ISO 16363." Seth Anderson (MIAP '12) spoke about "Implementing the MoMA Electronic Records Archive: Contextual Preservation of Museum Records." Julia Kim (MIAP '14) participated in a panel discussion on "How to Party Like It's 1999: Emulation for Everyone." Other alumni gave short talks during the conference's "lightning rounds."