Digital Asset Management Symposium
posted July 23, 2011
AMIA, the world’s largest association of moving image archivists, also is offering, September 30 2011, its Digital Asset Management in the Real World symposium. It takes place in September, also in Los Angeles. The symposium covers emerging technologies related to the life cycle of digital audiovisual assets. It includes case studies from the worlds of
The Reel Thing: Register Early Now
posted July 23, 2011
Early bird registration ends Monday July 25 2011 for The Reel Thing, the Association of Moving Image’s annual showcase of the latest technologies in audiovisual restoration and preservation. This year’s event takes place August 18-20 at the Linwood Dunn Theatre in Hollywood, California. Each year at the event, laboratory technicians, archivists, new media technologists, and
Workshop: Describing Moving Images
posted June 30, 2011
Tuesday, September 27 2011 Simmons Graduate School, Boston For special collections, historical society and archives managers and staff, lone arrangers, LIS students. Full-day workshop with hands-on introduction to content standard and data structure selection for moving images (film and video). Focuses include: PBCore and its use in conjunction with DACS; demonstrations of PBCore’s value in
Workshop: Copyright Law for Cultural Institutions
posted June 30, 2011
July 25-August 5 2011 NYU Tisch School of the Arts The Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts is offering a course on intellectual-property issues and other ethical considerations in the management, preservation, and dissemination of cultural material in collecting institutions. The course is for students and for professionals
Copyright Law for Cultural Institutions
posted April 29, 2011
The Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts is offering a course on copyright law for cultural institutions, July 25-August 5 2011, at the Tisch School, led by instructor Rina Pantalony. According to a MIAPP announcement, the course will address the intellectual-property issues and related ethical ones that surround the
Paul Rotha: Filmmaker, Author, Producer
posted February 15, 2011
The Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds is organising a three-day conference from September 8-10 2011 on the career of Paul Rotha in the light of the last two decades of research into non-fiction cinema and British film culture. Rotha (1907–1984) was a British documentary film-maker, film historian, and critic whose documentaries
Media Art History 2011 – REWIRE
posted December 8, 2010
September 28-October 1 2011 Liverpool, England The fourth in a series of International Conferences on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. Through keynote addresses, panels and poster sessions, the conference will address such issues as the British contribution to media art, the history of computing technologies in the UK and internationally, and the
Preservation Training Workshops and Webinars
posted December 8, 2010
The Northeast Document Conservation Center has announced its latest Preservation Training Workshops and Webinars for January-June 2011. In response to staff shortages and dwindling travel budgets, the roster includes an expanded offering of webinars. The webinars are two hours long and begin at 2pm Eastern US time. In-person workshops are full-day programs and generally are
DigCCurr Professional Institute
posted November 22, 2010
Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle May 15-20, 2011 & January 4-6, 2012 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Institute consists of one five-day session in May 2011 and a two-day follow-up session and a day-long symposium in January 2012. Each day of the summer session will include lectures, discussion and hands-on
Economies of the Commons 2
posted November 4, 2010
International conference, seminar, and public evening programs 12-13 November 2010 De Balie, Amsterdam (Pre-conference: November 11, Hilversum) The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision will host Economies of the Commons 2 , an international seminar on Open Video, a two-day international conference and two-evening public program at De Balie, a center for culture and politics