This post is authored by Klavier J. Wang, PhD, who recently finished an internship in the audiovisual archives of NYU Special Collections. A scholar of Hong Kong cultural history, Wang is currently a graduate student in NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program. Being
Gay Rally, 1977; Richard Berkowitz Papers; MSS 421; 421.0019, Fales Library & Special Collections, New York University. If you haven’t guessed from the rainbow flags that proudly flap around the city, this weekend is the NYC Pride Parade, a celebration of the LGBTQI+ community
Optical media is a catch-all term used to describe those shiny, prismatic discs that we all know and love: CDs, DVDs, Blu-Ray, and to a lesser extent, MiniDiscs and LaserDiscs. Most of the optical media in the world is commercially produced, but for a long