FYI, you should find this interesting if you are available, and it might provide you with some ideas for viable capstone projects as well.
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 2010 10:17:12 -0400
From: Zack Lischer-Katz
Next week, from April 14-16, second year students will present their
final thesis projects. This event is open to the public, so please
feel free to distribute this information to others.
This year, thesis topics consider a wide range of preservation issues,
such as the aesthetic/ethical considerations of preserving
experimental film works, the development of new strategies for
preserving file-based video work and its metadata throughout its life
cycle, and the political/ethical pitfalls associated with
international initiatives that help digitize the audiovisual heritage
of post-colonial African countries, to name only a few.
Please follow this link for a PDF of the program:
http://cinema.tisch.nyu.edu/attach/21957
In addition, a description of last year’s presentations can be found
here:
http://www.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/events/09spring_2/thesis_presentations/
Schedule:
Wednesday, April 14th
9:30am / Siobhan Hagan (rm. 648)
Chesapeake Baywatch! Life Guarding Regional Television Airwaves,
Featuring the WJZ-TV Collection at the University of Baltimore
5:00pm / Stefan Elnabli (rm. 648)
Lowbrow Longevity: An Examination of Commercial Video Distribution’s
Unique Role in the Preservation of Independent Exploitation Horror Film
7:30pm / Andy Uhrich (rm. 648)
“…maybe the horse will learn to sing!”: Preserving the Computer Files
of Hollis Frampton and the Digital Arts Lab
Thursday, April 15th
9:30am / Jennifer Blaylock (rm. 648)
Reproducing History: Colonial Discourses & Digital Silences in African
Audiovisual Archives
5:00pm / Joseph Gallucci (rm. 674)
Reading Jeremy Blake: Issues of Access and Preservation to Born-
Digital Artists’ Archives in a Multi-Institutional Context
Friday, April 16th
9:30am / Walter Forsberg (rm. 648)
Averting the Lost Highway: Archival Advocacy and Migration Strategies
for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s 1-inch Type C
Videotape Materials
12:30pm / Sandra Gibson (rm. 648)
A Case Study: Internal System by Coleen Fitzgibbon
3:00pm / Jonah Volk (rm. 648)
A Producer’s Guide to Preserving File-Based Digital Video
Peter J. Wosh
Director, Archives/Public History Program
History Department
New York University
53 Washington Square South
New York NY 10012
Phone: (212) 998-8601
Fax: (212) 995-4017
http://history.fas.nyu.edu/object/history.gradprog.archivespublichistory.html