Media Archiving Workshop: Migration and Preservation From Analog to Digital

Taught by:
E.S.P. TV, Directed by Victoria Keddie and Scott Kiernan
Athena Christa Holbrook, Collection Specialist in Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art Kit Fitzgerald, Video Artist
Liz Flyntz, curator of The Present is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST

$70 fee includes digital transfer of analog media.
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Learn how to transfer media from analog to digital formats in this workshop, presented in conjunction with the exhibition The Present is the Form of All Life: The Time Capsules of Ant Farm and LST. Following an introductory discussion between media preservation archivists about avoiding archival obsolescence, a hands-on transfer station will be setup and supervised where participants can learn how to digitally transfer material from a range of analog media formats.

Participants will be asked to outline the type, format, and duration of the media that they hope to transfer, and will be required to bring their own USB hard drive to store their updated files. They will leave with a hand printed manual for reference to transfer their own material.

Participants can bring tape-based video formats such as:
(S)/ VHS
Betacam SP
DVCAM
Mini DV

And analog audio formats such as:
¼” reel to reel
Cassette tapes
LPs

This workshop will be facilitated by E.S.P. TV, a project directed and operated by Victoria Keddie and Scott Kiernan. They will be joined by Athena Christa Holbrook, Collection Specialist in Media and Performance Art at The Museum of Modern Art, artist Kit Fitzgerald, and curator Liz Flyntz to facilitate a day of media rescue!