Case Studies: Works by Nam June Paik and John F. Simon, Jr.
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Day 1, Group 1Mona Jimenez, Sarah Resnick, and Yvonne Ng, New York University Graduates of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at New York University will present two conservation assessments conducted in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, as part of the graduate course “Handling New Media”. Works discussed will be Untitled (Nam June Paik, 1968) and CPU (John F. Simon, Jr., 1999). Both works include altered hardware, and in the case of CPU, custom code. Panellists will also comment on the process of conducting the assessments as part of a graduate curriculum. |
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Moving Image Archiving and Preservation at NYU: Case Studies on Complex Media Installation |
Mona Jimenez is an Associate Professor and Associate Director in New York University’s graduate program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation. Her focus is on video and digital media preservation, and the history and theory of old and new media, including custom electronic devices from the 1970s and 1980s. She has consulted extensively on preservation projects with public television stations, community media stations, museums, libraries, artist spaces, and web-based groups, and was the founding Director of the US national consortium Independent Media Arts Preservation. She has worked on key symposia advancing media preservation practice, including TechArcheology: Installation Art Preservation, as well as the Video History Project (www.experimentaltvcenter.org). She co-wrote, with Liss Platt, the “Videotape Identification and Assessment Guide” (www.arts.state.tx.us/video) and, as a researcher-in-residence at the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, created a cataloguing template for custom and commercial machines used to make media artworks (www.fondation-langlois.org/html/e/page.php?NumPage=708). |
Nam June Paik’s Untitled (1968): A Preservation Assessment |
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Sarah Resnick graduated from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at NYU in 2007. She currently works as an archivist at the studio of musician and multimedia artist David Byrne. Previously, Sarah worked with film and media collections at the Museum of Modern Art, Eyebeam, Anthology Film Archives, and NYU Libraries Media Preservation Unit.Sarah Resnick graduated from the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at NYU in 2007. She currently works as an archivist at the studio of musician and multimedia artist David Byrne. Previously, Sarah worked with film and media collections at the Museum of Modern Art, Eyebeam, Anthology Film Archives, and NYU Libraries Media Preservation Unit.. |
CPU: Conservation Assessment and Recommendation |
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Yvonne Ng is a recent graduate of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program at NYU. She is currently the Junior Research Fellow at Preserving Digital Public Television, an NDIIPP-funded project between WNET, WGBH, PBS, and NYU. Previously, Yvonne worked with media collections at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, NYU Libraries Media Preservation Unit, and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre in Toronto. |