By Guest Blogger | November 19th, 2010 This is Taz Morgan, the Media Archive Intern at WITNESS. From November 12-14, I attended a symposium called “Reimagining the Archive: Remapping and Remixing Traditional Models in the Digital Era” at the University of California, Los Angeles. The Symposium was organized by the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the School of Information at UCLA, INA (Institut Nationel de l’Audiovisuel, France), and Ina SUP European Centre for Research, Training and Education on Digital Media. Serving as a forum to discuss new directions for archives, in particular ones with moving image collections, in the age of Web 2.0, remix, and digital culture, the Symposium brought together archivists, scholars, creative artists, and professionals from private and public cultural organizations
The tone was set on Friday evening with Rick Prelinger’s animated keynote presentation, in which he spoke about the dynamic nature of moving image archives as sites of creation, participation, artistic practice, and activism rather than as places where content goes to [...]
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By Bryan Nunez | March 17th, 2009 There are a number of recently-announced conferences or workshops coming up in 2009 which are worth checking out:
SOIMA 2009: Safeguarding Sound and Image Collections November 17 – December 11, 2009 New Delhi, India
This 4-week course will provide an overview of issues related to the preservation and access of sound and image materials e.g., photographs, films, video and audiotapes, and digital materials. It will discuss the value, meaning, selection and use of sound and image collections in various institutional contexts, exploring the potential of sound and image media in transmitting knowledge and cultural traditions. Initial sessions will especially focus on identification of various formats including the playback equipment, life expectancy of media and ways of detecting deterioration. Additional course topics will include: current knowledge and practices for documenting and cataloguing, media handling and storage, risk assessment of collections, emergency preparedness and response, criteria and technologies for migration and reformatting, [...]
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By Bryan Nunez | January 26th, 2009 The International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ) has just released Documenting Truth, a report of best practices for human rights documentation. The 30-page report is the result of work by the Documentation Affinity Group (DAG), a peer-to-peer network of six diverse NGOs: the ICTJ, the Documentation Center of Cambodia, the Forensic Anthropology Foundation of Guatemala, Human Rights Education Institute of Burma, Humanitarian Law Center (Belgrade), and the Iraq Memory Foundation. [...]
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By Bryan Nunez | October 27th, 2008 Today, October 27, is World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, established by UNESCO in 2007 to highlight the importance of film, video, television, radio and all other forms of audiovisual media to global culture, history, and communication; and to call attention to the vulnerability of this media, due to neglect, deterioration, a lack of human or material resources, and censorship. Those of us working in the wealthier countries can attest to such difficulties; imagine trying to manage a collection in a country with intermittent electricity, in the midst of civil war, or under a repressive government.
Over the past few years a small but growing community of archives and archivists devoted to human rights collections and issues has been growing, and at the same time there is an emerging awareness within the human rights community that archives and documentation have a significant role to play.
How do archives support, promote and [...]
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