Preserved Media
Polaroids (1984)
Polaroids is a short video created by Michael Mages, Linda Wargo, Jeff Hilgert and John Watkins. The video was created many years ago technology that was state-of-the-art at the time. Michael Mages is currently a member of BAVC Media's Board of Directors, and the final editing of credits was done in BAVC Media's Sony editing booth. The preservation of this little clip continues BAVC Media long-standing commitment to serving Bay Area creators and artists! We love it when things come full circle.Â
Time Base Correction – Before and After
This video shows the importance of Time Base Correctors in a video digitization signal chain. The content is being played off of a 1/2" Open Reel video tape using an Sony AV-3650 deck. The image on the right is straight off the deck and the image on the left is after the content has passed through a DPS-290 time base corrector. As you can see, while some artifacts are still visible after time base correction, (minor flagging at the top of the frame, and some dropouts), the stability of the image is vastly improved. This is why we always use [...]
Watch: U-matic Tape Deck Path
Get a upclose look at how a u-matic tape feeds through the deck. A look inside the BAVC Media Preservation studio.
People’s Video Theater – 15th St Squatters Clip
This clip from the People's Video Theater was digitized as part of BAVC Media's Preservation Access Program. It shows squatter's rights activists in New York City in the the 1970s. At the time that we posted this video on youtube the Alameda County Sheriff's department has deployed tanks and armored officers to forcibly evict the #Moms4Housing activists. Let's not let history continue to repeat itself! We stand in solidarity with #Moms4Housing.
Generational Loss THE MOVIE
The year is 1988. You've got a cool videotape. You let your friend make a copy of it. Then their friend makes a copy of that tape. Unlike digital content, analog audio and video loses quality with each generation. Rub-a-dub-dubbing tapes can eventually degrade the image quality to the point where it can barely be recognized! Nowadays we take for granted that digital technology allows us to make as many copies as we want without issue. However, in the analog realm, each new copy means loss of quality and a new set of errors. This is Generational Loss. Watch and [...]
Guillermo Gomez-Pena at The Exploratorium
The Preservation department, at bavc.org, has started cleaning and digitizing the Exploratorium's video collection. http://www.exploratorium.edu/ This is 'La Poocha Nostra' Archival footage, from 1988. Guillermo Gomez-Pena is a bay area artist whose work in performance, video, installation, poetry, journalism, photography, cultural theory and radical pedagogy explores cross-cultural issues, immigration, the politics of language, the politics of the body, "extreme language" and new technologies. For BAVC Media Promo use Only
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/Â 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. Â
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 OnlyÂ
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 [...]
