Workshop
Saturday, May 13th from 10:00am to 12:00pm
Join members of XFR Collective for a hands-on workshop focusing on U-matic tape!
For the first half of the workshop, we’ll introduce participants to the U-matic tape, its history, and its preservation concerns. For the second half of the workshop, we will break into two groups split between two U-matic decks. We will clean them while learning about the different parts and mechanisms (including the shuttle button).
This workshop is great for people new to digitizing media. It is recommended for those looking to attend the following rack building workshops, but not required.
Attendees can expect to:
- Understand the history of U-matic tapes and how it led to the development of other analog tape formats
- Experience handling and inspecting U-matic tapes
- Visual inspection: spotting basic condition issues for the pre-digitization process Understanding why, how, and when to clean decks
What we offer is a little technical and fills in the gaps between people who work with physical media collections and people who don't know what a Hi8mm tape is.
Fees for this workshop are $20 for METRO members and $40 for non-members. Registration is capped at 10 people.
This workshop will be led by Sarah Gentile, Kelly Haydon, and Chris Nicols.
About Our Instructors:
Sarah Gentile is an archivist with a specialization in cultural heritage. She works in the Conservation Department of The Museum of Modern Art, where she specializes in media conservation. Prior to that, she was Assistant Archivist at Brooklyn Museum’s Digital Lab and later worked at Brooklyn Academy of Music as Digital Archivist project managing the BAM Leon Levy Archives site. She holds a BA from UMass and an MLIS with a certificate in archival studies from CUNY. Primarily concerned with archival access, she strives to think professionally about forever and a day.
Kelly Haydon (she/her) is the media archivist at Human Rights Watch. She has managed video and audio archival projects for CUNY-TV, NYU Special Collections, and Bay Area Video Coalition (now BAVC Media). She holds degrees from NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program and School of Visual Arts.
Chris Nicols is a multimedia archivist who currently works as a Film Archivist at the New York City Municipal Archives. He holds a Masters degree from NYU, and previously worked at Storycorps, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and the Miami-Dade College Wolfson Archive. He specializes in digitizing and managing collections of historical and documentary analog moving image material.
Where ?
411, South 5th Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, 11211, United States