Robert Anen is a graduate student currently enrolled in NYU’s Moving Image and Preservation Program. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Film Studies and Production from Hofstra University in 2011. He is the president of the AMIA Student Chapter at NYU. His interests include audio preservation, political moving images, and preserving home movies. He is currently interning at the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University, volunteers for community archiving workshops, and has begun to assist the organization Indie Collect as well. He is convinced he was made for the MIAP program because none of the assignments have seemed like work.
Valeria Guerrero is pursuing a Master’s degree in Cinema Studies at the New York University as a Fulbright Foreign Student Scholar. She received her B.A. in Communications and Journalism from Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, where she developed an interest in cinema after taking courses in film and media history and criticism. For her Bachelor’s thesis she developed a pioneering research project on Ecuadorian film censorship, for which she collaborated closely with local archives and cinematheques. She is currently working on a research project around chichera music videos in Ecuador; she is also interested in applying for a Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image program in the University of Amsterdam.
Caroline Gil is a media archivist, with experience working with artists, cultural heritage institutions, private art collectors and non-profits. Caroline has worked at the Smithsonian’s Center for Folklore and Cultural Heritage, the New Art Trust, New York Public Library, Third World Newsreel, Allied Productions, Filmoteca Cataluña and with media artists’ personal collections. Her areas of interest include Latin American video art, media collectives, experimental filmmakers and low cost solutions for digital preservation. She is a graduate student at NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, holds a Director of Cinematography Master’s from Universidad de Barcelona-ESCAC, and an Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts.
Ayshea Khan is a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin School of Information. She holds a B.S. in Cinema & Photography from Ithaca College and worked for three years as a freelance editor and Youth Filmmaking Mentor with the Austin Film Society. She is the current President of the UT chapter of AMIA and has interned with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image and American Genre Film Archive. Her professional interests concern amateur footage of South Asian American communities and increasing collection accessibility through education and online platforms. When the time finds her, Ayshea enjoys experimenting with direct animation and fixing up old film projectors.
Jim is a well-known authority on the preservation of electronic media. Jim is a frequent lecturer and writer on electronic media preservation internationally and serves on a variety of other media-associated boards and organizations. As a specialist in Forensic Video, he has been an expert witness in several court cases and trials. Jim is also an inventor, and is most widely known for the invention of “SAMMA” or the “System for the Automated Migration of Media Assets. SAMMA was developed in concert with his role as the Chief Video Consultant for the Library of Congress and the designer of the Packard Campus National Audio-Visual Conservation Center. Jim is an international lecturer on various subjects including Work Flow in Production, Video Production, Computer Graphics and Animation, the Business of Video Production, Collection Management, Magnetic Media Restoration, and Digital Archiving and Digital Preservation. Speaking engagements include the British Film Institute, the British Library, the American Film Institute, The National Archives of the United States, the National Computer Graphic Association, Pratt Institute, International Television and Video Association, Columbia University, R.P.I., the International Production Center in Brazil, the American Library Association, the Association of Moving Image Archivists, the Mid-Atlantic Archivists Association, the Archivists Round Table, Fast Rewind, SEAVAA, and many more conferences and associations. He and his work has been featured in many articles including those published in The New York Times, Television Broadcast Magazine and elsewhere. He has appeared on national and international television as spokesperson in the field of audio and video preservation. Have been heard on radio nationally and internationally as an expert in the field of the preservation of audio and moving image materials, most recently on CBC. Jim is the recepient of the 2015 SMPTE (the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) Archival Technology Award.
Julio Cabrio is an international graduate student in New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. He received his BA in Fine Arts and Photography from Universidad de la República, Uruguay. His area of interest includes preserving contemporary art like performance and media art works, digitization processes and archiving born digital materials. Julio is working as an assistant at the Media Preservation Unit at Bobst Library (NYU), he is interning at Human Rights Watch (NY) as well as he is working as a volunteer at the Interference Archive. He has worked for the General University Archive and the National Cinema Institute in Uruguay on many film collections and he has been a co-organizer for APEX 2014 in Uruguay.
Kate is a first year PhD student in the Radio, Television, and Film department of The University of Texas at Austin. She holds an MA in Film and Media Preservation from The University of Rochester and The L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation at The George Eastman Museum. Her current research interests are the preservation of broadcast media, digital collections of human rights archival materials, and televisual aesthetics.
Juana Suárez combines careers as a scholar, film critic, media archivist, and cultural entreprenneur. She holds an MA and a PhD in Latin American Literature (University of Oregon and Arizona State University, 2000) and an MA in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (New York University, 2013). She is the author of Sitios de Contienda. Producción Cultural y el Discurso de la Violencia (Madrid, Iberoamericana-Vervuert, 2010) and Cinembargo Colombia. Ensayos críticos sobre cine y cultura colombiana (Cali, Universidad del Valle, 2009), published in English by Palgrave Macmillan in 2012; she is the co-editor of Humor in Latin American Cinema, forthcoming Palgrave Macmillan 2015. She is currently forwarding two research projects: Film Archives, Cultural History and the Digital Turn in Latin America y and Memoria Nacional/Movilidad transnacional: la experiencia fílmica colombiana en el extranjero en años recientes. She has worked with media archives at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Anthology Film Archives, Anthology Film Archives and the Center for Puerto Rican Studies (NYC). She has been an organizer and a participant in the Archival Exchange Program (APEX) from NYU-MIAP (Colombia, Uruguay, and Argentina 2013-2015). She has taught courses on audiovisual patrimony administration at the Fundación Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano. In her capacity as archives consultant for Proimágenes Colombia, she coordinated the restoration and presentation of the films of Carlos Mayolo, and she is working on the preservation of the the Yuruparí TV series. For the latter, she has succesfully obtained grants from the International Federation of Television Archives (FIAT) and the Colombian Ministry of Culture in order to preserve and catalogue a big segment of the almost 2000 audio and film elements of the collection.
Molly McBride is a soon-to-be graduate of the School of Library and Information Studies (SLIS) at UW-Madison, where she studies archives and preservation. While at UW, Molly has been a teaching assistant for undergraduate LIS courses and a practicum student at the Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research. Molly currently works for Special Collections at UW-Madison, in the Conservation Lab for UW’s Libraries, and as a cataloger for Internet Scout, a NSF grant funded digital library. She also volunteers for Recovering Analog and Digital Data (RADD), an analog transfer and digital forensics lab located in the SLIS Library.
Lorena A Ramirez-Lopez is a recent graduate from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. She is an active member in XFR Colelctive, a non-profit organization that provides low-cost digitization services to artists, activists, individuals and groups. She is co-chair of the International outreach committee at the Association of Moving Image archivists. Currently works three part-time jobs as an adjunct archivist, digital asset management specialist, and teaching assistant. She is interested in international relations and primarily focuses on Latin America cinema with a concentration on Paraguayan film.
Eddy Colloton is a graduate student in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at New York University. He received a BA in Critical Studies of Cinema from the University of Southern California. He has previously worked for the New York Film-makers’ Cooperative, the Denver Art Museum, the Association of Moving Image Archivists Online Continuing Education Task Force, the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at CUNY, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He specializes in the preservation of media art, with a strong interest in video installations, software-based art, and the conservation of conceptual art.
Gonzalo Ramirez holds a degree at the Moving Image Archive Studies at UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles). Gonzalo also is a recipient of a Fulbright scholarship and a Becas Chile Scholarship. His background mixes filmmaking and film restoration. Gonzalo holds a BA on communications from the University of Chile. He participated in the 2012 Summer School organized by the International Federation of Film Archives. He has worked in the National Film Archive of Chile as an assistant to the restoration of the oldest surviving documentary of Chilean Cinema in 35mm Nitrate, “South American Boxing Championship” of 1923. He is interested in digital preservation, moving image stock footage sales, and into drawing attention to Chilean cinema history. He has participated in three award winning documentaries and has also worked for the Archive of the National Television in Chile working with legacy video format as U-Matic. Currently is working as a researcher at Endemol Chile and as a cataloger at the Ministry of Culture.
Taylor Morales is in her second year of UCLA’s Moving Image Archive Studies Program. She received her BA in Film Studies and African American Studies from Wesleyan University where she worked in the Wesleyan Cinema Archives. She currently works as an intern for Milestone Films and as a project archivist in the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science’s Margaret Herrick Library’s Special Collections Department. As a student, her research focuses on issues related to online access to archival moving image collections. She loves all kinds of films but is most passionate about preserving skateboard videos.
Pamela Vizner Oyarce is an expert in the management, care and handling of media collections, from film to born-digital materials (including audio), she holds an MA degree from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at New York University (MIAP). She has worked with a variety of organizations including Human Rights Watch, the New York Public Library, the National Film Archives of the Philippines, BB Optics, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Chile, among others. She currently works as a consultant for IndieCollect in New York and teaches Digital Preservation at Universidad de Chile. Vizner also organized the 2014 Audiovisual Preservation Exchange (APEX) Program in Montevideo, Uruguay and is a core member of the XFR Collective in New York where she was in charge of media migration from analog video to digital. She holds a BA in Music and Sound Sciences from Universidad de Chile and has experience in audio mixing, editing, reconstruction and restoration. Additional areas of expertise are open source tools for digital preservation, database design and management (specially mySQL and FileMaker), Drupal development for AV collections.
Jonathan Farbowitz is a media archivist and a graduate of New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. His interests include preserving malware and other anomalous digital objects, archiving media related to social movements, developing free and open source software for archivists, and the ethical treatment of footage of Indigenous peoples in archival collections. Jonathan has worked on the collections of Anthology Film Archives, the Bancroft Library at University of California Berkeley, and the Museo del Cine in Buenos Aires, as well as City University Television, NYU’s Fales Library, Interference Archive, and Educational Video Center all in New York. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Film from Vassar College.
Mona Jimenez started making video in 1974, and been an advocate and organizer for the preservation of independent media and media art since she first tried to transfer sticky tapes in the 1980s. She is Associate Arts Professor/ Associate Director in NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, teaching the preservation of video and digital works. She experiments with participatory models of media/film archiving through Community Archiving Workshops, and founded Audiovisual Preservation Exchange (APEX), a project to create meaningful networks of audiovisual archivists, collection managers, educators and students internationally through shared work on collections and special projects. In recent years she led the establishment of a lab for disk imaging, emulation and analysis of early multimedia works, and helped plan the symposium TechFocus III: Caring for Software-based Art. With Sherry Miller Hocking and Kathy High, she co-edited The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued (Intellect Press, 2014), documenting collaborations between artists and technologists to create custom tools for electronic art.
Savannah Campbell is a current graduate student in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She currently serves as secretary for NYU’s AMIA student chapter. Prior to attending NYU, she worked at the Internet Archive doing in-house digitization of a variety of film, video, and audio formats. She has also worked with audiovisual collections at the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Global Action Project, where she has inspected and inventoried film and video and has provided recommendations for preservation. She holds a B.A. degree in Cinema Studies from San Francisco State University.
Michael Pazmino received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley in Film and Media Studies where he discovered his passion for audiovisual archiving through an internship at the Pacific Film Archive. Naturally he was led to UCLA’s Moving Image Archive Studies program where he is currently finishing up his studies. Although eager about all aspects of audiovisual preservation, his current interests lie in bringing greater awareness to the preservation and access of audiovisual works created by racially marginalized communities, and examining the problematic relationship between moving image pornography and archives. He has worked and interned at various nonprofit and commercial institutions such as the UCLA Film and Television Archive, the Nickelodeon Animation Studio and the Academy Film Archive.
Manon Gray is a graduate student in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at New York University. Her interest in time-based media began while studying Comparative Literature at Princeton University. Manon currently works in the NYU Cinema Studies Department’s archive, where she inspects and scans small gauge films. She has pursued her interest in independent and experimental film with internships at San Francisco Cinematheque and the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the Outreach Co-Chair for NYU’s AMIA Student Chapter.
Martha Diaz has traversed between the entertainment industry, social sector and academia. She has worked in Hollywood and independent movie productions, producing short films, TV shows, documentaries, music videos, and PSA’s. Among her distinguished appointments, Diaz has served as a Fellow at the Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation – National Museum of American History, Hip-Hop Scholar at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture -NYPL, and is currently a visiting curator at the Museum of the Moving Image. She is completing an M.A. degree in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in May 2016.
Allie Whalen is an audiovisual archivist based in Los Angeles who specializes in the preservation of underground media, primarily handmade and orphan works. She is a graduate of NYU’s MIAP program and currently works with digital media at Warner Bros and as a consultant for various projects with collecting institutions, musicians, artists, and filmmakers on private and special collections. She co-organized APEX 2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has worked with the UCLA Preservation Program, Anthology Film Archives, Democracy Now, Cinemateca Uruguaya, Czech National Film Archive, and archives throughout Eastern Europe.