2024 | Conference Schedule
This is a preliminary schedule and is subject to change.
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| 7:30 AM – 6:30 PM | Registration Desk |
| 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Film Restoration Essentials for Small Archives and Non-Profits |
| 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Legacy Equipment: Maintenance & Repair Workshop |
| 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM | Hack Day |
| 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM | AMIA 2024 Opening Night Cocktails |
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| 7:30 AM – 7:00 PM | Registration Desk |
| 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM | Coffee & Tea Break |
| 8:45 AM – 10:45 AM | AMIA 2024 Welcome & Keynote |
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Diaspora Identities in Archival Home Movie Practice |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Risk and Reward: What Archivists Should Know About Film Projection |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | The Jack Warner Scripts: A Case Study |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Arkansas Voices: The Oral History Recordings of Dr. Johnye Strickland |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Meeting: Education Committee |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Meeting: Publications Committee |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Meeting: CAW Workshop Working Group |
| 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Queer Exhibition and VHS Preservation |
| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Meeting: LGBT Committee |
| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Meeting: News, Documentary, and Television Committee |
| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Meeting: Preservation Committee |
| 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | No Reel Left Untouched – A Case Study of 150,000 Reels |
| 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Best Practices for Use of Generative AI in Archival Documentaries |
| 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Preparing Streaming Media for Accessibility: Three Organizations Share Their Efforts |
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Coffee & Tea Break |
| 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM | Serious Business: 1970s Feminist Film Distribution; A Site for Archival Knowledge |
| 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM | Filipino American Historical Society of Chicago |
| 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM | YouTube Do’s and Don’ts: Create, Manage, Monetize, Share |
| 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM | The Preservation of Digital Live Performance Art |
| 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Cinema Slides: The Greatest Images Never Seen |
| 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Introducing Moving Image Archives into Media Studies |
| 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Whisper AI Transcription, Human Implementation |
| 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM | From Busby Berkeley to Frank Zappa: the Treasure Trove of Philip Jenkinson |
| 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM | In Plain Sight! Women Directors: Restoration Case Studies |
| 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM | Trivia Night 2024 |
| 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM | Restoration Screening |
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| 8:00 AM – 7:00 PM | Registration Desk |
| 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM | Coffee & Tea Break |
| 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM | The Pavilion |
| 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM | Essential Yet Challenged: Decentralized Model of Film Preservation in China |
| 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Looming Analog Sunset: Ensuring Long-Term Preservation of Your Organization’s Past |
| 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Human-centered AI-assisted Video Cataloging |
| 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM | Building Professional Mentorship in the Field |
| 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM | Preserving Community Memory in the Balkans Project Report |
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | AV Processing Strategies: the Holder and de Lavallade Papers |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Developing a National Network of Magnetic Media Preservation Training Sites |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Archiving Television: A Preview |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Lessons Learned from the Public Broadcasting Preservation Fellowship |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | A Nonprofit Archive Primer: Show and Tell with Deserted Films |
| 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Poster Session I |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Meeting: Open Source Committee |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Meeting: Disaster Preparedness/Recovery |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Meeting: Oral History Committee |
| 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM | Staff Picks from the Prelinger Archives |
| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Meeting: Small Gauge/Amateur Film Committee |
| 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Meeting: Next Steps for the International Outreach Committee |
| 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | The Future of Memory: A History of Lossless Format Standards in the Moving Image Archive |
| 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Peliculas Caseras: Fostering Archival Autonomy and Empowerment Among Latine Communities |
| 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Who the F*ck is “Dr. Ted”: Archiving Lost Pornographic Films |
| 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | A Collaborative Effort: Born Digital Video Preservation Strategies at LC |
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | Digitizing, Documenting, and Working with All Your Dance Stuff |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Coffee & Tea Break |
| 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM | Archival Visibility: Preservation, Access, and Education with Milwaukee LGBTQ+ Collections |
| 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM | Eames in the Castle: Preserving Films Made for the Smithsonian |
| 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM | “Degralescence” 10 Years Later: Community Solutions to a Mounting Predicament |
| 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM | AMIA Pathways Fellowship: Meet the 2024 Fellows |
| 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Preparing, Identifying, and Responding to the Archival Impacts Climate Change |
| 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | DAR to be Different: Demystifying Aspect Ratio and Forming a Community Consensus |
| 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM | Establishing a Community Digitization Program for AV Materials |
| 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Homicide: Life on the Street – A Remaster Case Study |
| 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Saving the Unsalvageable: An Unusual Preservation Approach for BW Reversal Film |
| 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM | Grab a drink in the Pavilion! |
| 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM | Made in Milwaukee: Recent Experimental Films from the City |
| 8:15 PM – 9:15 PM | Screening of Queer Short Films by AMIA LGBT Committee |
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| 7:30 AM – 7:00 PM | Registration Desk |
| 8:15 AM – 9:15 AM | Coffee & Tea Break |
| 8:30 AM – 9:15 AM | Closing Keynote: DAM in GLAM: A Vision for the Future |
| 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM | The Pavilion |
| 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Elevating Autistic Voices Through Neuro-Affirming Practices in Audiovisual Archives |
| 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Got Nitrate? Adventures Building a Nitrate Vault in 2024 |
| 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Walls of the Classroom Disappear: Early Educational Television 16mm Films |
| 9:45 AM – 10:45 AM | Pathways Fellowship Alumni: Reports from the Field |
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Talk About Talkies |
| 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM | Navigating AI Integration in Audiovisual Archives: Practice & Policy |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | A Decade of Preservation: Al Larvick Fund’s Home Movie Collaborations |
| 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Archiving Film Culture: Collaborating to Increase Access and Outreach |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Exploring Experimental Machine Learning in Film Restoration |
| 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM | The Future of LTO Technology in Digital Preservation |
| 12:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Poster Session II |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Meeting: Copyright Committee |
| 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Meeting: Conference Committee |
| 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM | Exploring 3D Printing for VCR and VTR Repair |
| 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Transforming Audiovisual Archives with AI: Innovations, Challenges, and Ethical Considerations |
| 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Author, Author! An AMIA Publishing Roundtable |
| 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM | DIY Video Lab: Crowdsourcing, Escaping Perfectionism, and Embracing Apprenticeship Models |
| 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM | Coffee & Tea Break |
| 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM | Large AI Models for Video Content Summarization |
| 3:15 PM – 3:45 PM | Artists and Archives: A Model for Community Engaged Archives at Visual Studies Workshop |
| 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM | Supporting Federal AV Accessibility: New FADGI Guidelines and Software Updates |
| 3:15 PM – 4:15 PM | Hack Day Awards |
| 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM | Enabling Integrated Access to Audio-Visual and Traditional Archives Using “Records-in-Contexts” |
| 3:45 PM – 4:15 PM | The Art of Archiving Video Art |
| 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM | No Past-Proofing: Eliminating Film Printing from Motion Picture Archiving |
| 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Navigating Rights and Usage: Best Practices for Accepting Donations |
| 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | The Community Speaks: Engagement & Experiences from the DVRescue Project |
| 4:30 PM – 5:30 PM | Contemporary Challenges for Nitrate Film Collections – Storage, Use and Access |
| 5:00 PM – 5:30 PM | Insights from the Cinema’s First Nasty Women Audience Demographics Survey |
| 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM | Buses Loop to theatre |
| 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM | Archival Screening Night |
| 8:30 PM – 9:45 PM | Buses Loop back to hotel |
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| 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM | Community Archiving Workshop |