Moving Image Archiving and Preservation

Please join us to learn about the field of moving image archiving and preservation and about our exciting interdisciplinary graduate degree program within the Department of Cinema Studies at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Session topics will include the MIAP application process, curriculum, faculty, internship program, and the professional outcomes of MIAP alumni.

See 14 orphan films at MoMA on Sunday, 1:30pm. Some of the handiwork of MIAP faculty (Bill Brand, Dan Streible) and alum (Andy Uhrich, Michael Grant, Kimberly Tarr), Cinema Studies at NYU alum Maria Vinogradova -- and many friends of the show. https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/7517

MIAP has received a $341,806 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to fund student internships at cultural heritage institutions!

#TBT to the MIAP AMIA 2020 Virtual Meetup organized by (and photo cred to) MIAP '17 Alum Jacob Zaborowski! We loved seeing all of your beautiful faces

A favorite ritual among in our profession is the annual Archival Screening Night by the Association of Moving Image Archivists. Another great program last night. MIAP graduates in charge of both tech and curatorial. Genevieve H-K ('15) . & Brittan Dunham ('11)

A huge shoutout to MIAP Alumni Candace Ming '11, Rebecca Fraimow '13, Pamela Vizner '14, Genevieve Havemeyer-King '15, Benjamin Turkus '16, Becca Bender '18, and MIAP Instructor Shawn Averkamp for their wonderful presentations at AMIA 2020 thus far! We're so excited to see more current and former MIAPers present over the next few days! Also, congratulations to Dwight Swanson for winning the Ray Edmondson Award for Advocacy!

Congratulations to Mona Jimenez for winning AMIA’s Silver Light Award! This award will be presented tomorrow, Tuesday November 17 @ 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM EST as part of the opening AMIA 2020 Welcome & Keynote Conversation with Margaret Bodde. In addition, after this ceremony, a Zoom will be open to any MIAPer who wants to join to congratulate Mona. Please email Juana ([email protected]) for a link to this event!

MONA JIMENEZ to receive the Silver Light Award for Lifetime Achievement. At next week's Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) Annual Conference, beloved former MIAP professor and tape liberator Mona J. will be honored with the organization's top recognition. AMIA’s Silver Light Award recognizes career achievement in the field of moving image archives, including professional and volunteer works or activities, and contributions to preservation and restoration projects.... For over three decades, Mona Jimenez has had a major impact in the areas of video preservation and the media arts, bringing audiovisual archival expertise and training to cultural organizations worldwide. Mona helped organize the first conference dedicated specifically to videotape preservation, held at MoMA in New York. As Associate Arts Professor at NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program (MIAP), she founded the Audiovisual Preservation Exchange (APEX) She initiated and developed the model for the Community Archiving Workshop, (CAW) which to date has trained hundreds of archivists, librarians, artists, and mediamakers and served over 20 cultural and community-based organizations around the world since 2010. See more