Analog Video in Moving Image Archives & Conservation: Infrastructures of Knowledge from Production to Preservation. Issue 1 (29th November 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sorensen, Lauren
• Is Part Of: KULA. Volume 2:Issue 1(2018)
• Publication Date: 2018-11-29
• Subjects: audiovisual archives -- media conservation -- analog video -- infrastructure -- maintenance; Knowledge, Theory of -- Periodicals; Knowledge and learning -- Periodicals; Knowledge management -- Periodicals; 001.2
• DOI: 10.5334/kula.32
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2398-4112

Abstract

The essay uses a set of theoretical ideas offered by Susan Leigh Star to argue for a shift in contemporary understandings of, and approaches to, video preservation. Instead of focusing on the granular characteristics of tape and their material stability, I argue, the audiovisual archival community should view preservation as a set of linked systems that function within a web of shifting perspectives and context-driven solutions.