Summer 2024
Cameron Smith - The Interdisciplinary Archivist: A Survey of Work Completed in MIAP
MIAP maintains an extensive digital archive of student work. Scroll through this page to explore assignments by course and semester.
For questions or concerns about the work listed below, please email tisch.preservation@nyu.edu
Cameron Smith - The Interdisciplinary Archivist: A Survey of Work Completed in MIAP
Anthony Gonzalez - Power to the Printers: Evaluating the Use of 3D Printing for VCR Repair
Jenny Hsu - Beyond Bytes and Beats: The Preservation of Digital Live Performance Art
Sixuan Li - Small-gauge Film Formats in China: Their History and Current Archival Conditions
Adrianne Lundy - Assessing Rights Management Risks in Moving Image Collections
Julita Pratiwi - A Short Revisit to Research on Film Historiography and Preservation in Indonesia
Andrew Reichel - The Reel Changeover: The Preservation of Analog Film Projectors
Carlos Saldaña Puerto - What Still Exists and Is Inexhaustible. A Preservation Plan for Gustavo & Igor Guayasamín's Tiag (1987, Ecuador, 16mm)
José Solé - Adapting to Complexity: Navigating Challenged in Time-Based Media Information Management for Conservation
Matthew Yang - The Big "M" in GLAM: Planning and Performing Media Migrations for Audiovisual Collections in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Seraphim Arlievsky: Reclaiming Strawberry Fields: Gosfilmofond in Post-Soviet Russia
Brian Dunbar: The Right Stuff: Building a Successful AV Solution for Archives and Museums
Liza Kastrilevich: Preserving Ukraine’s Truth: Archiving Video Evidence of Human Rights Violations during the Russian Invasion
Amanda McQueen: Archiving the Smashworks Dance Collection: Born-Digital Video Preservation for Independent Artists
Kirk Mudle: A Gift to Another Age: Evaluating Virtual Machines for the Preservation of Video Games at MoMA
Tasha Randhawa: New Kids on the Blockchain: Digital Tokens and the Dawning of a New Digital Asset Class
Benjamin Rubin: Night of the Living Film: A Conservation History of George A. Romero's The Amusement Park
Claire Shaffer: The New Nitrate: Scaling the Inequity of Digital Film Preservation
Pakistan Invisible: Migratory Realities of Dispersed Film Collections
A Critical Assessment of Pakistani Films in the George Eastman Museum Archives
Group Projects
Final Projects
Group Research Reports
Final Projects
Sarah Resnick
Rights Evaluation: Executive Summary The Adams Chronicles, 1750-1900, Episode One
Lucy Talbot Allen: Opening the Shib Shed: a Brief History of Shibaden 1/2” Open Reel Video
Neil Brydon: The Iconoscope
Syrina Nuemah: The Scientific Study of Sound: The History of the Phonautograph
Carlos Abarca: Media Morgue: On the Obsolescence of Sony One-Inch EV Recorders
Julia Delgadillo: Mechanical Musical Trends: The Herophon Organette’s Brief Life
Charlie Norbury: The Arrilaser
Juliana Principe Salazar: AMTEC Time Element Compensator
Leah Simon: Grundig Stenorette Tape Cartridge: A Format History of Early Portable Tape and Technique
(Formerly Access to Moving Image Collections)
Carlos Abarca, Leah Simon: Collection: DPRK Video Archive
Julia Delgadillo, Juliana Principe Salazar, Syrina Nuemah: The Met Museum YouTube Video Collection: Collection Overview
Neil Brydon, Charlie Norbury, Lucy Talbot Allen: Collection Overview: Play for Today Collection
Seraphim Arlievsky, Amanda McQueen, and Tasha Randhawa
Film Studies Video Essay Collection (PDF, 66 KB)
Oscar Becher, Claire Shaffer, Katie Zwick
Rollercoaster POV / Experience Videos (PDF, 602 KB)
Brian Dunbar, Liza Kastrilevich, Cameron Smith
Super Bowl Commercial Collection from the 2000s (PDF, 2.4 MB)
Sarah Hartzell, Kirk Mudle, and William Plotnick
The Golden Age of Hip Hop: An AudioVisual Collection of '90s NYC Rap Music (PDF, 1.1 MB)
Kayla Henry-Griffin, Ben Rubin, and Ana Salas
Self-Care Collection (PDF, 1.3 MB)
Lindsay Miller, Esther Rosenfield, and Mike Stetz
WrestleCore vocabulary (PDF, 1.1 MB)
April Griess, Shiyang Jiang, Madeleine Mendell, and Zoe Yang
NYPD Surveillance Video Collection (PDF, 1MB)
Robert Hoffman, Aparna Subramanian, and Klavier Wang
Videos of Early New York Collection - Metadata Final Project (PDF, 4.3 MB)
Alyosha Nowlin
Classic TV Commercials: Collection Overview (PDF, 546 KB)
Assignment One - Metadata Mapping
Assignment Two - Collective Access Database
(Formerly Contemporary Cultural Institutions)
Assignment One: User Study of Two GLAMs
Assignment Two: Collaborative Contributions to Scrapbook-Zine
Final Project
Observational Papers
Final Papers
Assignment One
Assignment Two
Final Paper
Observational Papers
Final Papers
Final Assignment
Matthew Yang Jiefeng - Unpacking the Digital Cinema Package: a guide for av archivists
José Solé - Reverse Image Search for Audiovisual Materials
Carlos Saldaña - The Film Print Database
Richard Rusincovitch - Historical Asset Management Organization System
Andrew Reichel - Digital Literacy Final project
Julita Pratiwi - THE WOMEN IN INDONESIAN CINEMA PROJECT
Adrianne Lundy - The WayBackPack: Finding Ways to Fight Linkrot
● Demo
Momo Li - About the Use of Omeka: the Digital Exhibition of Student Work at the Art School
Jenny Hsu - Cloud Storage Options For Film Photographers
Fin Hatfield - Digital Literacy Final Project
Anthony Gonzalez - Survey of platforms for streaming audiovisual content, crowdsourcing digital humanities research
For past internship summaries, see our Internship listings.
Assignment #2
Jen Mohan and Kara van Malssen
Impact Website: Inventory, Structure, and Risk Assessment (PDF, Restricted)
This course gives students practical experience with the process of film preservation including understanding and recognizing film elements, making inspection reports, repairing film, making preservation plans, understanding laboratory processes and procedures for making new film preservation elements, and writing preservation histories. Student work involves completion of actual film preservation projects for BB Optic clients, and resulting documents are private and proprietary. However, in Spring 2018, a restoration of Samba the Great (1977) by Nigerian filmmaker Moustapha Alassane. This was a partnership between the NYU MIAP class of Spring 2018 and the French Embassy. More information can be found here. Projects students worked on in the Spring 2020 Semester include:
Not the First Time by Hollis Frampton for Anthology Film Archives
Love by Beryl Sokoloff for Phoenix Arts funded by NFPF
Travers by Beryl Sokoloff for Phoenix Arts funded by NFPF
France III by Beryl Sokoloff for Phoenix Arts funded by NFPF
Still Life with Women & Four Objects by Lynne Sachs
The House Of Science: A Museum Of False Facts by Lynne Sachs
One Hand Don’t Clap by Kavery Kaul
Aqua by Samba Félix Ndiaye in partnership with the French Embassy
Le Damier by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda with the French Embassy
In Spring 2021, students in Bill’s class will work on Saul Levine’s Notes on an Early Fall (1976) in partnership with the Flaherty Film Seminar, which is supported by the National Film Preservation Fund (NFPF) award, the research related to the proposal was conducted by MIAP ‘18 alum Miles Levy as part of the course in spring 2018. More information can be found here.
Class Project
Film Preservation Report: Hollis Frampton's Hapax Legomena (PDF, 201K)
Irene E. Taylor
Chuck's Will's Widow (PDF, 50K)
Matthew Yang Jiefeng: Diverse Approaches to Caring for Time-Based Media: Internet Archive
Carlos Saldaña: Diverse Approaches to Caring for TBM: Third World Newsreel
Andrew Reichel: The Film-makers' Cooperative
Julita Pratiwi: On Handling Time-Based Media Collection: The Case of The Brooklyn Museum
Anthony Gonzalez: The Tate Time-Based Media (TiBM) Conservation Team
Sixuan (Momo) Li: A Brief Research on TBM Caring of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Fin Hatfield: Ciclic and Networks of Care
Jenny Hsu: Diverse Approached to Caring for TBM: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Adrianne Lundy: Video Game History Foundation
José Solé: The Whitney Museum's Comprehensive Approach to Time-Based Media Care
Midterm Preservation Plan
Final Preservation Plan
Midterm Presentations
Final Presentations
Final Class Project
Conservation Assessment and Recommendations for John Simon's CPU (PDF, 254K)
Part 2 (PDF, 540K)
This course focuses on the practice of film exhibition and programming in museums, archives, and independent exhibition venues. It examines the goals of public programming, the constituencies such programs attempt to reach, and the cultural ramifications of presenting archival materials to audiences. During the biennial Orphans Film Symposium, student work often takes the form of production of the live event. To learn more, check out Orphans Online (2020) and past symposia.
FALL 2005
SUMMER 2005
Brad Campbell
NYPL Theater on Film and Tape Archive (PDF, Restricted)
SPRING 2006
Brad Campbell
Decasia Now: Towards a Heuristc for Re-purposing Historic Footage (PDF, 208K)
CK Ming
I Remember Harlem (PDF, 86K)