Preservation Texts

Boyle, Deirdre. Video Preservation: Securing the Future of the Past. NY, NY: Media Alliance, 1993.
Conrad, Tony. NYMDI Videotape Restoration Program. Buffalo, NY: New York Media Decentralization Institute, undated.
Conrad, Tony. "Open Reel Videotape Restoration." The Independent 10, no. 8 (1987).
Grace, Sharon. "Video Tape Survival: The Cleaning, Time Base Correcting and Reformatting of Deteriorating Video Tape for Real to Reel: Artists' Video 1970-72." Video Networks 9, no. 3 (1985).
Haller, Robert A.. "Perspectives on Preserving Independently Produced Videotapes." Video Texts: 1983 (1983).
Hocking, Sherry Miller. "Saving the Images: A Report from the Looking Back/Looking Forward Symposium." The Squealer 13, no. Fall/Winter 2002 (2002).
Hocking, Sherry Miller. "The Tapes are Disappearing." The Squealer 13, no. Spring/Summer 2002 (2002).
Hocking, Ralph. A Proposal for Low Cost Retrieval of Early Videotapes Produced on Obsolete Equipment and/or Videotape that Will Not Play Back. Or The Resurrection Bus. Owego, NY: Experimental TV Center, 1990.
Hubbard, Jim. "Preserving the Immaterial: The Guggenheim Museum's Variable Media Initiative." MAIN, no. Spring/Summer 2001 (2001).
Hubbard, Jim, and Mona Jimenez. Meeting the Challenges of Video Preservation: A Progress Report on Initiatives within the Media Arts Field by Media Alliance. NY, NY: Media Alliance, 1996.
Cultural History at Risk: Independent Media and Preservation. NY, NY: IMAP, 2000.
Rinehart, Richard. "Preserving the Rhizome ArtBase." Rhizome (2002).
Seid, Steve. "TechArcheology: A Symposium on Installation Art Preservation." MAIN, no. Winter 2000 (2000).
Troy, Maria. "Video Preservation: A Report from the Trenches." Afterimage 23, no. September/October 1996 (1996).

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