Hi everyone! Julia here. It’s been a while, but the XFR Collective is busy refining workflows as we start transferring with new and continuing collaborative partners. We have just begun another 6 month membership period. In the past few weeks,…
On November 25th I was invited to participate in the Round Table “Self Preservation: How to take care of your own archive” organized by the Audiovisual Archive Professor Dina Pintos of the Universidad Católica del Uruguay in Montevideo. This has…
As we are coming to an end of our initial six-month trial phase, we wanted to share with you some thoughts about this process and the challenges we have faced in the past two months. Digitizing all our members’ videos was…
Memoria del 1er Encuentro Internacional de Archivistas Audiovisuales de Oaxaca Watch a video that documents our advisors Mona Jimenez and Walter Forsberg as well as Paulina Suarez and others who went to Oaxaca to forward community-based archiving of audiovisual media.…
I spent last week in Savannah, Georgia as part of the annual Association for Moving Image Archivists Conference. As part of the conference, I represented the XFR Collective on “Click Capture, Press Play,” a panel on regional archival digitization organizations…
Our equipment has been loaned by a pool of generous people and the owner of our 3/4″ U-Matic deck needed it back. To address this gap, Walter Forsberg found Arch Smith on Craig’s List. Arch’s long career in the midtown NYC television world…
Over the last month, most of our meetings have stayed in the virtual realm — with me in Boston, Kristin in Chicago, and Andrea in California, Google Hangout has been XFR Collective’s new best friend. The focus on discussion has…
The last three weeks have been exciting and decisive for the future of the collective. We had our first advisory meeting with our board members, which was a much appreciated and productive conversation about our mission and future long and…
Today we worked through part 1 and part 2 U-Matic recordings of MC Gurk (1994), from the Elevator Repair Services. After transferring a number of VHS, the U-Matic is a beautiful contrast. We can only imagine what if av technologies…
No transfers this week! With our Advisory Board meeting coming up next week, we decided to take last night to make sure we were all on the same page with how we wanted next week’s meeting to go. We’ve got…