MIAP at AMIA, 2024

Tuesday, Dec 10, 2024

Students, alumni, and faculty represented MIAP at the AMIA conference in Milwaukee December 4th-6th

The following MIAP alumni, current students, and faculty presented talks and posters, participated in panels, and led workshops at the 2024 Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (December 2024). Congratulations to everyone for your contributions to the field and the profession! 

Workshops

  • Legacy Equipment: Maintenance & Repair Workshop - Kristin MacDonough (‘13)

  • Hack Day, and Hack Day Awards - Anne Schweikert (‘19)

  • Community Archiving Workshop - Pamela Vadakan (‘05)

Presentations

  • Preparing Streaming Media for Accessibility: Three Organizations Share Their Efforts - Walter Forsberg (‘10) & Crystal Sanchez (‘12)

  • Eames  in the Castle: Preserving Films Made for the Smithsonian - Walter Forsberg

  • Lessons Learned from the Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship - Rebecca Fraimow (‘13)

  • Preserving Community Memory in the Balkans Project Room - Siobhan Hagan (‘10)

  • The Preservation of Digital Live Performance Art - Jenny Hsu (‘24)

  • Exploring 3D Printing for VCR and VTR Repair - Anthony Gonazalez (‘24)

  • Arkansas Voices: The Oral History of Recordings of Dr. Johnye Strickland - Amanda McQueen (‘23)

  • “Degralescence” 10 Years Later: Community Solutions to a Mounting Predicament - Nicole Martin (‘08)

  • Supporting Federal AV Accessibility: New FADGI Guidelines and Software Updates - Crystal Sanchez (‘12)

Panel

  • Who the F*ck is “Dr. Ted:” Archiving Lost Pornographic Films - Lucy Allen (‘25), Oscar Bechar (‘23), Lindsay Erin Miller (‘22)

  • Navigating Rights and Usage: Best Practices for Accepting Donations - Greg Cram (NYU MIAP Adjunct Faculty)

  • The Community Speaks: Engagement & Experiences from the DVRescue Project - Siobhan Hagan (‘10), Kelly Haydon (‘14), CK Ming (‘11)

  • Human-centered AI-assisted Video Cataloging - Caroline Mango (‘18) & Raananah Sarid-Segal (‘17)

Poster

  • The 8-Files: Investigating the Mysteries of 8mm Video Transfers - Siobhan Hagan (‘10)

  • Decentralized Web Storage — A Community Based Alternative - Nicole Martin (‘08)

  • Responsibly Stewarding for Others: Preserving Armenian Culture - Linda Smith (‘26)

Meeting 

  • Next Steps for the International Outreach Committee - Committee co-chair: Lorena Ramirez-Lopez (‘15)

  • Open Source Committee - Committee co-chair: Annie Schweikert (‘19)

  • Disaster Preparedness and Recovery - Facilitator and organizer: Juana Suárez (‘13)

  • CAW Workshop Working Group -  - Committee co-chair: Pamela Vadakan (‘05)

Roundtable 

  • Archiving Historical Debates and Preserving Minoritized Counter Histories Within Collections - Leah Simon (‘26)

group picture

MIAP family, AMIA Milwaukee, 2024