Halfway through a very busy week of travel and conferences for XFR members, a pivotal and disturbing election swept through our communities. A platform of racism and misogyny was validated. Collectively we experienced a range of emotions, from rage, to trauma,…
Hi everyone, Just a quick update! XFR member Carmel Curtis recently gave a presentation about XFR’s work at the MIX Queer Film Festival in 2015 at the annual Society of American Archivists (SAA) Conference in Atlanta, GA this past week. Her talk…
I recently watched Chambre 666 or Room 666 via a Netflix DVD but you can also find it on Vimeo. It is a documentary and 16 directors address the question of “what is the future of cinema… is cinema a language…
Call For Participants: Community Video Digitization at MIX 2015 Calling all queer collectors, media makers, artists, and hoarders! It’s time to get your old videotapes out of the closet…and over to MIX 2015 so you can get preservation-quality digital copies…
From June 1st through June 13th 2015 the Audiovisual Preservation Exchange (APEX) was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina where two XFR Collective members participated: Lorena Ramirez-Lopez (APEX 2015 Organizer) and Pamela Vizner Oyarce (APEX 2014 Organizer and APEX 2015 Advisor).…
We had a great time at our first Open House and look forward to more in the future! thanks everyone that braved the stairs on a lovely Sunday afternoon to hang out with us, take a look at our work…
As Julia mentioned in the last post, I recently teamed up with two of XFR Collective’s favorite partners — WITNESS’ Yvonne Ng and La Mama’s Rachel Mattson — to host a workshop at the Council for Library and Information Resources…
The XFR Collective’s Rebecca Fraimow will be speaking with Rachel Mattson (La MaMa Experimental Theatre) and Yvonne Ng (WITNESS) this Thursday, March 12th at the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) unconference for the 2015 Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and Archives…
On Feb 26, 2015, I visited the Internet Archive (IA) in San Francisco the evening after the Internet became a utility by federal law. IA had a party to celebrate the Net Neutrality vote with a crowd of librarians, archivists,…
Hi! As you saw on Julia’s last post, we just started phase two! Before we started any digitization, we dedicated some time to test the system and to install our sync generator (donated by Walter Forsberg). The sync generator allows…