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National Endowment for the Arts awards BAVC Media $100,000
San Francisco, CA -- Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) received $100,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to continue providing high-quality preservation services to artists and small- to mid-sized arts and cultural heritage organizations through the Preservation Access Program. Since the program began in 2013, BAVC Media has received over 150 inquiries, and has preserved more than 500 hours of media from 27 different collections, making artistic and creative content available for screenings, broadcast, installation, online delivery or exhibitions that reach thousands of viewers each year. With this new round of funding, BAVC Media will be able [...]
BAVC Media welcomes 2015 ACLS public fellow Nilofar Gardezi
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE San Francisco, CA – Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) is excited to welcome 2015 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Fellow, Nilofar Gardezi. As Program Impact Analyst, Gardezi's work will support all of BAVC Media's initiatives. She will develop assessment and evaluation methodologies for BAVC Media's programs and services and create a series of measurements to assess BAVC Media's impact locally, regionally, and nationally. Nilofar Gardezi is a highly skilled and experienced educator, researcher, and writer. For over a decade, she has worked as an educator at UC Berkeley, most recently as a Lecturer, [...]
US Department of Commerce, Aspen Institute announce BAVC Media’S participation in the national “Communities That Work” partnership
San Francisco, CA – Seven regional teams across the United States have been selected to participate in the Communities that Work Partnership (CTW Partnership), a new joint project of the Workforce Strategies Initiative (AspenWSI) of the Aspen Institute and the Economic Development Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. The CTW Partnership is an effort to strengthen regional economies by equipping American workers with the skills needed for 21st century jobs and accelerating industry-led workforce development and training efforts. BAVC Media and its team organizations were selected through a nationally competitive review process to be one of the [...]
BAVC Media announces Tom Comitta as Fall 2015 Artist-In-Residence
San Francisco, CA -- Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC Media) is pleased to announce that Tom Comitta will be the Fall 2015 Resident for BAVC Media’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence (AIR) program, made possible in part through the generosity of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The AIR program will give Comitta access to BAVC Media’s state-of-the-art technical facilities and in-house expertise, along with the opportunity to produce work in collaboration with BAVC Media programs. Comitta plans to develop new video works to accompany future live performances of an in-progress Sci-Fi musical through multimedia writing workshops open to the BAVC Media community and [...]
War Gastronomy Live!
War Gastronomy Live! is a cultural heritage archive disguised as a live food and cooking show. Guests and comedians share stories and try to guess geographic trivia related to the foods they are experiencing. This project is in collaboration with Eating Cultures the Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center and the Asian American Women Artists Association exhibition at SOMArts. War Gastronomy Live! by Justin Hoover and Chris Treggiari. SF Commons and SOMArts will cablecast this event live on SF Commons: Thursday May 22nd and Friday May 23rd 7:30pm-8pm SF Comcast channel 76, Astound channel 30 and will stream online here [internal link to stream].
SF Stories: A Shared Experience – Veterans
With support from the James Irvine Foundation's Exploring Engagement Fund, BAVC Media is working with local social service agencies to provide a series of digital storytelling workshops: SF Stories: A Shared Experience. Workshop participants learn digital storytelling from start to finish, and completing three-minute digital stories for exhibition on public access television, the Web and in non-traditional exhibition spaces, including at community events and at the social service agencies. Read more about SF Stories and BAVC Media's other digital storytelling initiatives here [internal link to DS page]. Round three of SF Stories was a week-long digital storytelling bootcamp that was held at the Independent Living [...]
SF Commons to PhillyCAM: Communicating Full Value of Public Access
When the federal mandate for public access was handed down by the FCC in the 1970s, it ensured access to equipment, facilities and timeslots for independent producers of local television programming. In keeping with the times, public access stations in 2015 are often offering more services--access to broadband, for example, as well as new media training and social media tools to keep producers' content relevant in the digital era. How does this shift reflect the mission of public access? Technology has the ability to make our world both simultaneously smaller and better connected. Tying the power of television with connectivity results in [...]
Looking back on Next Gen’s Fall Semester
This week Next Gen concluded its fall semester with a Winter Celebration hosted at BAVC Media. The event began with a gallery walk through works-in-progress curated by students and their teaching teams.
G:URL Gamers at Zynga
On Friday I had the privilege of accompanying our G:URL Gamers and their amazing instructors Regis and Amy to their final presentation at Zynga. The students have been working for the past two weeks to create their own games, which they shared with a group of female engineers, designers, project managers and programmers.
Next Gen visits YouTube
Last week, 35 Next Gen students and eight staff members, as well as 15 students from Loyalton High School, caravanned to YouTube headquarters in San Bruno.
