The Poetry Center's video archive, based at San Francisco State University, began its active life in 1973 when then-Director Kathleen Fraser began to formalize Center's archival recordings — audiotapes had been made of nearly all original readings since 1954.

I remember going to BAVC Media’s first building, when they were on Potrero Hill, and the first classes they offered. This was when video was expanding from a recording medium to a storytelling medium and documentary format all its own.

I am the Executive Director of NOVAC (New Orleans Video Access Center), a media arts non-profit that serves the cities of New Orleans and Baton Rouge in Louisiana.  Under my term as leader, the preservation of our 43 year archive has become an organization priority.

In 2010 I worked with BAVC Media’s Preservation team to convert some old half inch reel-to-reel videotapes to digital files. The tapes were video documentation of my 1975 performance art work Splitting the Axis at the Berkeley Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley.