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David Byrne at The Exploratorium 1991
The Preservation department, at bavc.org, has started cleaning and digitizing the Exploratorium's video collection. http://www.exploratorium.edu/ David Byrne is a Scottish-American musician and artist. He is perhaps best known as a founding member and principal songwriter of the new wave band Talking Heads, which was active between 1974 and 1991. Since then, Byrne has released his own solo projects on record, and worked in a variety of media, including film, photography, opera, and Internet-based projects.
Love Diamond by Miranda July
"Love Diamond" is the first full-length performance work by contemporary artist Miranda July. It was commissioned by the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, and performed at The Kitchen in 2000. BAVC Media preserved and digitized the work. Written, directed, and performed by Miranda July http://mirandajuly.com Live score: Zac Love Painting: Jamie IsensteinFor BAVC Media Preservation Promo Only
The Beastie Boys Live At The Kitchen In NYC 1983
The Kitchen is a non-profit art space in New York City originally founded in 1971 in Greenwich Village. It takes its name from its original location in the kitchen of the Mercer Arts Center. It was initially intended as a space for the exhibition of video art, the Kitchen soon expanded to include other forms of art including performance, exhibition, music and dance. Notable Kitchen alumni include Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Rocco Di Pietro, John Moran, Peter Greenaway, Ridge Theater, The Future Sound of London, Leisure Class, Brian Eno, and Cindy Sherman and many more. In this clip we get an inside [...]
Preservation Access Program: Round 4 Clipreel
The Preservation Access Program began with a generous grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to offer subsidized video and audio preservation services to artists and small to mid-sized arts and cultural heritage organizations. This is a highlight reel of what BAVC Media Preservation was able to preserve in our 4th round of our Preservation Access Program in Spring of 2015.
Introduction to AVCompass
This free online resource from the Bay Area Video Coalition will give you direction in organizing, preserving, seeing and appreciating your audiovisual collection. From the unruly media room of your archive to the small box of tapes sitting in your home collecting dust, AV Compass will provide the basic tools you need to move forward in saving your films, tapes, discs and files for the long-term. http://bavc.org/
Richard Voorhees
Thanks to the BAVC Media’s Preservation Access Program, I was able to preserve the 2”-master of my film Proust + Vermeer, which was made in French. After a hefty archeological dig, the originial turned up in its unmistakable green plastic box.
Reflecting on the Preservation Access Program’s First Year
By Moriah Ulinskas In the Spring of 2013 BAVC Media launched the Preservation Access Program [INSERT LINK], a program funded by the National Endowment for the Arts. The goal of this program is to connect individual artists and small to medium-sized arts and culture organizations to resources for audiovisual preservation planning and to subsidize (by as much as 70%) the cost of preservation migration (digitization) for participants accepted into the program. Our goal was to get artists and organizations to think about the future of their legacy recordings and to do the work of inspecting and inventorying their tapes and understanding how [...]
Sara Chapman
Media Burn Archive is a nonprofit archive in Chicago dedicated to videotapes produced by artists, activists and community groups. We have enthusiastically participated in BAVC Media’s Preservation Access Program since it began in 2013.
Read Now: BAVC Media Preservation on Jerome Caja’s Home Videos
Pop over to our Preservation program's Tumblr to read BAVC Media Preservation Fellow Lauren O’Connor's eloquent post about the significance gleaned from preserving the intimate home recordings of the late, great San Francisco visual artist, performer, and drag queen Jerome Caja. O'Connor writes: The great pleasure of preservation is to pop in an unassuming, archaic tape and, while digitizing, encounter a world or a person that one has never encountered before… and to play a small part in keeping that content alive for somebody else to encounter and be inspired by one day. Go read the whole thing! BAVC Media is digitizing Caja's tapes [...]
