Tuesdays, 6-10 PM, room 651, Fall 2004
Instructors: Howard
Besser & Ann Harris
Introduction to Moving Image
Archiving
& Preservation H72.1800
Sept 28 Perspectives
on Collecting, Conservation & Preservation (AH)
see entire
syllabus
Assignments due before class:
Topics covered:
- What are the basic guiding principles
of
conservation/preservation
coming from different professions and/or communities? How were they
shaped?
- How have they been utilized and/or
affected
by moving
image and recorded sound materials, through such factors as multiple
copies,
"born digital" formats, and changing definitions of appropriate
archival
mediums?
- Discussion Panel including
professionals
from different
organizations and fields
- What are some of the issues that the
archive, conservation,
library and independent preservation communities are addressing with
regard
to moving image and sound preservation?
- What are the role(s) of a moving image
specialist
in relation to other professionals caring for moving images and sound
collections?
- Ray Edmundson, in Audiovisual archiving:
Philosophy and Principles, proposes that moving image
archiving
is evolving as a synthesis of other archiving and preservation
practices.
What are the pros and cons of such an approach? What would be aspects
of
this synthesis from various professions?
- What ethical considerations are
fundamental to
our work as moving image archiving and preservation specialists?
- Where do "de facto" archives - those
organizations
with important materials but untrained as preservationists - fit?
- What is the role of producers in
preservation practice?
- Panel discussion with:
- Jon Gartenberg, independent
preservation
consultant
- Carol Stringari, Senior Conservator,
Contemporary
Art, Guggenheim Museum
- Duane Watson, retired Head of
Conservation, New York Public Library
- Barbara Mathe, Senior Special
Collections
Librarian,American
Museum of Natural History
Agenda
- Panel discussion with:
- Jon Gartenberg, independent
preservation
consultant
- Carol Stringari, Senior Conservator,
Contemporary
Art, Guggenheim Museum
- Duane Watson, retired Head of
Conservation, New York Public Library
- Barbara Mathe, Senior Special Collections
Librarian,American
Museum of Natural History.
- Continuation of discussion of issues
raised by panelists
(see topics above).
- Review of readings re: orientations
and
functions
of libraries, archives and museums including a discussion of:
- Review of progress on case studies.
- Introduction to Risk Assessment for Film/Video/New Media
- Current Events
- Recent important news articles
- do you preserve the originally aired version, or the "legal"
one? -- CBS
Fined $550, 000 for Jackson Stunt, NY Times, Sept 23, 2004
- is "updating" and "improving" an older film a form of
preservation? --'Star
Wars,' With Even More Digital Tweaks, NY Times, Sept 21, 2004
- is "scholarship" an important part of a cultural institution?
-- Museum
With an American Indian Voice, NY Times, Sept 21, 2004
- Assignment for next week