“The Night Side” on Newstalk 1010
June 6, 2017. XFR Collective member Dinah Handel talked about video digitization on “The Night Side” on Newstalk 1010 (Toronto, Ontario, Canada).
Project Update!: 2 Months into the XFR-METRO Partnership
When it was first established in the Fall of 2013, the XFR Collective was centrally focused on offering very low-cost video digitization services for artists and small organizations. Founding members Julia Kim, Kristin McDonough, Rebecca Fraimow, and Andrea Callard developed…
“Videotapes Are Becoming Unwatchable As Archivists Work To Save Them”
June 3, 2017. XFR Collective’s work was featured in Scott Greenstone’s piece “Videotapes Are Becoming Unwatchable As Archivists Work To Save Them,” which aired on NPR’s All Things Considered (New York, NY).
XFR Collective’s New Partnership with METRO (… & seeking equipment!)
The XFR Collective is excited to announce a new partnership with the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), a New York City based library advocacy and professional organization. This new partnership is designed to support expanded local engagement with audiovisual…
👋🏻 8 📼
In the following post, I’m going to talk a little about the 8mm video format (Video 8, Hi8, and Digital 8) and what makes it a difficult format to work with, how XFR Collective hooked up our 8mm deck, and…
Call For Participation! XFR Collective at MIX: 29th NYC Queer Experimental Film Festival
XFR Collective is super excited to be back at MIX this year, and we know there are still more tapes to free! So come on back, all you lovely queer collectors, media makers, artists, and hoarders, and let us help…
“Talking Pop-up Media Migration with the XFR Collective’s Rachel Mattson”
January 18, 2017. XFR Collective member Rachel Mattson was interviewed for an episode of the Library Bytegeist podcast – “Talking Pop-up Media Migration with the XFR Collective’s Rachel Mattson” (New York, NY).
This season, give the gift of video reformatting
Dear Friends: In a season full of very bad news, we write with what always feels to us like extremely good news: the XFR Collective survives! We continue to work hard to lower the barriers to preserving at-risk audiovisual media…
Tech Talk: A Conversational Approach to Digital Solutions
A reflection on the Association of Moving Image Archivists/Digital Library Federation Hack Day, on Nov. 9, 2016, by Ethan Gates “I’m in!!” What would a “hack day” be without a few classic hacker catchphrases? Despite the now-ubiquitous presence of (and…
Can We Center An Ethics of Care in Audiovisual Archival Practice?
Notes on the Digital Library Federation Forum and the Association of Moving Image Archivists Conference (November 2016) by Rachel Mattson I spent the second week of November 2016 attending archives conferences. From Monday to Wednesday, I was in Milwaukee at…