Organised by the PrestoCentre Foundation
In collaboration with the University of Southern California
Shoah Foundation Institute and Digital Repository


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Taking place from May 21–23, Screening the Future Conference 2012 will bring people from all over the world to the University of Southern California, Ronald Tutor Campus Center in Los Angeles to talk and learn about the state of the art in digital audiovisual conservation. The event will assemble archivists, production companies, filmmakers, TV producers, CTOs, scientists, vendors, strategists, funders, and policy makers to develop solutions to the most urgent questions facing audiovisual repositories. Conference participants will help set the future research and policy agenda for AV preservation, and will benefit from interacting with leading institutions.
 
“With a timely theme of Play, Pause, and Press Forward, this year’s conference will look at the current and upcoming prospects and strategies for preserving and sharing an ever larger world of audiovisual content,” said, Jan Müller, President of the PrestoCentre Foundation. “Digital archiving is the link between our past and present and the future, and we will discuss realities that encompass topics as diverse as technology, standards, the expectations of users, archival costs, and the increasingly complex interaction between organizations, technologies, and funding models.”
 
“It’s incumbent on all of us working in the field to continue pioneering digital archive technology and processes so we can preserve our heritage,” said Sam Gustman, CTO at USC Shoah Foundation Institute and Associate Dean of USC Libraries. “We are entrusted with one of the largest public video databases in existence and it’s important that our archive, as well as the many others around the world, can continue to thrive as technology advances.”

    download the latest draft of the conference program

 

 

Timing and Venue:

May 21- May 23, 2012
daily from 9:00 am - 5:30 pm

Venue:
University of Southern California, USC Tutor Campus Center Ballroom, Los Angeles, USA

Parking at USC is $10. The closest parking structures to the Tutor Campus Center are Parking Structures A, X, and D. For more information, visit the USC Trojan Transportation website.
To view and download a map of the USC campus, visit http://web-app.usc.edu/maps

Hotel information:
book with special conference rate

 

Conference Rate:

Early bird (until 1 April) 325 USD; standard 400 USD; discounted 240 USD (for PrestoCentre members)

Register as a member and receive the discounted conference rate.

Conference rate includes Lost Landscapes screening night at the Bovard Auditorium. A surcharge applies to conference tours.

 

 

For sponsoring and commercial inquiries, please contact us at vendors@prestocentre.org

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Day 1 highlights:

  • Keynote on the Future of audiovisual media, technology and the user; and the Future of Media Collections
  • Reality Checks gathering the experiences, opinions and perceptions of leading experts and organizations about the future and archival challenges in their specific domain: Broadcast production; Film production, animation and 3D; Audiovisual Research Data; Art Performances; Fine Art Collections
  • Debate: opposite positions
  • Outside Lunch Buffet
 

Speakers include:

Howard Besser (NYU), Sam Gustman (USC Shoah Foundation and Digital Repository), Rob Hummel (Legend 3D), Andrea Kalas (Paramount Pictures), Pip Laurenson (Tate Gallery), Mark Lemmons (Thought Equity Motion), Jazz at Lincoln Center (Kay Niewood), Lev Manovich (University of California), Jan Müller (PrestoCentre Foundation), David Rosenthal (Stanford University), Nan Rubin (Community Media Services), Andrew G. Setos (Blackstar Engineering Inc.), Daniel Teruggi (PrestoPRIME project), Jim DeFilippis (Fox)

Day 2 highlights:

A whole day of master classes designed to meet your agenda:

  • Managing the cost of archiving – Budgeting, forever cost and endowment pricing
  • Archiving in production – The position of archives in the rapidly changing AV production climate
  • Trusting the future archive – Trusted auditing and certification of audiovisual archives and repositories
  • Archiving future data – The attributes and requirements of future generated AV data.
  • Drinks
  • Screening night: Lost Landscapes, by Rick Prelinger

 

 

Speakers include:

Stephen Abrams (University of California), Matthew Addis (IT Innovation), Bruce Ambacher (University of Maryland), Howard Besser (NYU), Karen Cariani (WGBH), Greg Head (Walt Disney), Peter Kaufman (Intelligent Television), Louis King (Yale University), Pip Laurenson (Tate Gallery), Kara van Malssen (AudioVisual Preservation Solutions), Lev Manovich (University of California), David Rosenthal (Stanford University), Raivo Ruusalepp (Estonian Business Archives), James Snyder (Library of Congress), Daniel Teruggi (PrestoPRIME project), Bill Thompson (BBC), Jeff Ubois (Personal Digital Archiving)

Vendor Lounge: a conference Lounge and Bar are available all day for you to meet vendors and suppliers, learn about new products and services, and connect directly with the people who matter most in your network, while taking a break between two master class sessions. Drinks and lunch will be served at the Lounge Bar whereas more intimate meetings can be held at specially purposed booths.

Day 3 highlights:

Conference Tours:

 
 

Speakers include:

Sam Gustman (USC Shoah Foundation and Digital Repository), Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive), Louis King (Yale University), Ben Moskowitz (Mozilla), and more

 

 

Lost Landscapes Screening Night

Rick Prelinger’s screening and presentation at USC on May 22, 2012 seeks to provide a sense of history in the midst of our accelerating and disruptive present. Built around vivid imagery of a lost America, it will offer practical insights into the pressing questions that face contemporary archivists and archives. How can past media transitions help us make more informed decisions in the future? Are we moving toward greater archival centralization or are we entering a landscape where an unlimited number of collections flourish? How will personal and corporate/institutional collections influence and change one another? Are archives gearing their services and offerings toward classes of users that don’t really exist, while users seek archives that haven’t yet been created? What’s really new, and what just looks new? Drawn from his popular LOST LANDSCAPES events, Rick’s program mixes unusual and surprising archival images with a multimedia discussion that will address many unresolved issues now emerging as the digital turn brings history together with the future.
Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer and filmmaker. His collection of 60,000 ephemeral films was acquired by Library of Congress in 2002. He has been an active player in the stock footage field since 1985, and his collection is now represented worldwide by Getty Images. Beginning in 2000, he partnered with Internet Archive to make 2,100 (soon to be 5,000) films available online for free viewing, downloading and reuse. His archival feature Panorama Ephemera (2004) played in venues around the world, and his new feature project No More Road Trips? received a Creative Capital grant in 2012. His Lost Landscapes projects have played to many thousands of viewers in San Francisco, Detroit and elsewhere. He is a board member of Internet Archive and frequently writes and speaks on the future of archives and issues relating to archival access and regeneration. With Megan Prelinger, he’s co-founder of Prelinger Library, an appropriation-friendly private research library open to the public in downtown San Francisco.
          
 
 
 

 

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