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Someone Else's Glasses: Sam Green talks Buckminster Fuller

Media Preservation | Posted on: Wednesday, April 25, 2012

By Moriah Ulinskas, Preservation Program Director

Artist/ filmmaker Sam Green, beloved member of the BAVC community, is well known for his Academy Award nominated documentary THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND and, most recently his live documentary (a genre we’re pretty sure he invented) UTOPIA IN FOUR MOVEMENTS which premiered last year at Sundance. Recently BAVC’s Preservation Program preserved a video for Sam’s newest

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BAVC’s Audio Preservation Program is back!

Media Preservation | Posted on: Monday, January 09, 2012

by Moriah Ulinskas, Director of Preservation

After a brief hiatus, BAVC’s audio preservation program is back in action.  Established with a generous grant from Pamela and Richard Kramlich's New Art Trust, the audio preservation center boasts a Pro Tools LE editing system with two OTARI ¼” open-reel audio decks and a professional TASCAM audio cassette player, as well as a BOW 532 tape cleaning machine.

This past Fall we

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Day of Digital Archives!

Media Preservation | Posted on: Thursday, October 06, 2011

Analog video preservation and a site visit to a repair facility at the NASA Ames Research Center

by Lauren Sorensen, Preservation Specialist

Happy Day of Digital Archives! Our preservation department specifically works to preserve and provide support to archives with film, video, and moving image and audio material in their collections (including advising on

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Why Analog-to-Digital Video preservation, why NOW.

Media Preservation | Posted on: Wednesday, October 05, 2011

How I Learned (Almost) Everything I Know About ½” Video from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
by Moriah Ulinskas, Director of Preservation

Early this year I received a call from the librarian of Manchester College, a small, faith-based university, regarding a video recording they wanted to have preserved and transferred to an archival digital file.  The video was a ½” video reel which had been in

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Highlights from the annual ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) Conference

Media Preservation | Posted on: Tuesday, May 24, 2011

by Natalie, Preservation Intern

Highlights from the annual ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) conference in LA, May 11 - 15, 2011.

After interning with Preservation for the past 3 months, I've learned a lot about analog digitization and preservation, met some wonderful bay area archivists, and worked with interesting collections. My only regret is that I wasn't able to work on any audio projects. Moriah's consolation was tipping

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BAVC Newbie Lauren Sorensen

Media Preservation | Posted on: Wednesday, October 20, 2010

We're excited to welcome Lauren Sorensen to the team as BAVC's new Preservation Technician. Lauren is a graduate of NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program and also works at Canyon Cinema. Impressive as this is, no one is safe from the NEWBIE BLOG.
 
1. The story of your life starts out with which 10 words?
Bay Area born, fell in love with the moving pictures...

2. Do you know your

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Exit Interview: Angelo Sacerdote

Media Preservation | Posted on: Monday, September 20, 2010

Angelo Sacerdote, Preservation Program Manager, is leaving BAVC this November after 10 years to try his hand at the pie game. His expertise, joie de vivre, goofball sense of humor, and organic veggies will all be missed. We sat him down to get his thoughts on preserving the past and baking the future.


Where are you going? What does the future hold?

I am going to open a store in the town I

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Symposium on Technical Conservation Issues of Time Based Media

Media Preservation | Posted on: Monday, May 17, 2010

by Angelo Sacerdote, Sr. Media Preservationist

Last month, on April 10th to be exact, I had the opportunity to speak at the Andrew W. Mellon Symposium on Technical Conservation Issues of Time Based Media, which was organized by Lynn Lee, Ph.D. who is an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the

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A German Breeze in BAVC’s halls

Media Preservation | Posted on: Wednesday, December 02, 2009

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by Katrin Abromeit, BAVC Preservation Intern

How about some first-hand information from the perspective of a BAVC intern in the Preservation Department? You might be saying, ‘Yeah, interns, what do they know? Ok, come on; tell me your boss' coffee preferences!'

Well, to be honest I am still not sure if Angelo ( the

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AMIA 2009, St. Louis, MO

Media Preservation | Posted on: Monday, November 09, 2009

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by Angelo Sacerdote, BAVC

I presented on a panel at the Association of Moving Image Archivists conference last week called "Digitizing 201: Video Digitization Workflows and Challenges" with David Rice from AudioVisual Preservation Solutions and Skip Elsheimer from A/V

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