Jim Hubbard
2 records
Meeting the Challenges of Video Preservation: A Progress Report on Initiatives within the Media Arts Field by Media Alliance Preservation
Media Alliance (founded 1979) is a New York State advocacy and service organization for independent media arts that led a 1991 national video survey and symposium with NYSCA, supported Deirdre Boyle's Video Preservation (1993), and applied to NEH for a cooperative catalog of over 8,000 titles across twelve New York institutions. The report documents Playback 1996 organized with BAVC (March 29–30, 1996) at the Museum of Modem Art with Getty and Andy Warhol Foundation funding, NAMID/FileMakerPro cataloging pilots producing over 1,800 records, and BAVC remastering and cleaning services for obsolete formats. Jim Hubbard authored the report and created Anthology Film Archives' first computer catalog under NAMID and a Jerome Foundation grant.
Preserving the Immaterial: The Guggenheim Museum's Variable Media Initiative Preservation
On March 30–31, 2001 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York hosted a conference introducing its Variable Media Initiative, led by Senior Curator John Hanhardt and Assistant Curator Jon Ippolito. The Initiative employs a detailed artist questionnaire to specify which aspects of ephemeral-media works must endure and to outline four strategies (reinterpreted, migrated, emulated, stored); sessions presented case studies by Ken Jacobs, Bruce Nauman, Nam June Paik and others. Discussions addressed tape remastering, machine obsolescence, performance fixity versus recording, and emulation for software preservation; JIM HUBBARD, author/contact.