MIAP Thesis Week 2025

All guests who are not current NYU students, faculty, or staff must RSVP here (including recent alumni). Please use your name as it appears on your ID to gain access to 721 Broadway. You must show that ID to get through security. You do not need to show your ticket anywhere else once you arrive on the 6th floor.

Monday 3/17/25:

12:00 - 1:15PM

Charlie Norbury

Preserving the Unprojectable: a preservation plan for Mack Dash

Mack Dash is a 70mm hand painted film, projected twice and promptly packed away into a can for over a decade. With the film now prescribed as unprojectable, how does a preservation plan develop? Alternative and DIY methods for preserving and scanning a hand painted film will be explored in this thesis, as well as a theoretical discussion regarding the film medium as an art object.

1:30 - 2:45 PM

Neil Brydon

The Life and Afterlife of the Iconoscope: A History of the First Video Camera Tube

The Iconoscope, invented in 1933 by Vladimir Zworykin, was the first practical video camera tube, replacing mechanical television systems as the first entirely electrical television system. Despite its importance in the history of television and video, little has been written about the Iconoscope beyond contemporary publications. This thesis aims to present a comprehensive history of the Iconoscope, its technical functioning, and its usage across the 20th and 21st century.

3:00 - 4:15 PM

Syrina Nuemah

From Early to Direct Cinema: An Interdisciplinary Study on The Conservation of Hand-Painted Film

In research related to film preservation, there is a gap in knowledge on the degradation of hand-painted film. To bridge this gap in knowledge, there needs to be dedicated research delving into this specific subsection of film conservation to ensure that preservation professionals are able to care for these collections properly. The goal of this research is to provide such a resource.

Tuesday 3/18/25:

10:00 - 11:15 AM

Richard Rusincovitch

Archival Considerations for Select Digital Materials: Exabyte and Early Data Tape, Atmos and Spatial Audio, Video Camera Cards

Within the world of digital archiving, there are several formats whose surrounding practices are still in the process of being established. Three formats - early 8mm data tape (with a focus on the Exabyte company), spatial audio files and video camera card content will be looked at from a historical and contemporary context in order to best help the next generation of archivists develop or refine workflows to preserve or migrate them.

Friday 3/21/25:

10:00 -11:15 AM

Julia Andrea Delgadillo

Exploring Museography with the Malkames Collection: Displaying Moving Image Equipment in GLAM Institutions

While moving images have found themselves to be commonplace in a variety of exhibitions, the history of displaying moving image equipment is more complicated. This presentation explores that history, and the pedagogical structures that surround it, while attempting to create an exhibition for the camera collection of Rick Malkames, a filmmaker who comes from a lineage of cinematographers and camera enthusiasts.

11:30 - 12:45 PM

Lucy Talbot Allen

“Real People Doing Real Stuff”: the Past and Future of the National Sex Forum Films

This hybrid research project and partial preservation plan examines the films produced by the National Sex Forum and distributed by the Multi-Media Resource Center, endeavors of the sex-positive Methodist reverend Dr. Ted McIlvenna, in 1970s San Francisco. The presentation will explore the production history of these films, the social and artistic context in which they were made, their archival history at Vinegar Syndrome and other institutions, and the possibilities for their future preservation, restoration, and distribution.

1:30 - 2:45 PM

Carlos Abarca

Memory of Nitrate: A Costa Rican Preservation Plan

Nitrate cellulose’s presence in audiovisual collections remains a concern for archivists and preservationists worldwide. For the Centro Costarricense de Producción Cinematográfica, degradation and long-term preservation issues for the format have largely gone unaddressed, now challenging the institution with broader uncertainties about the legacy of the materials. This thesis intends to outline a collection assessment for all existing nitrate elements currently housed in the CCPC archive, utilizing a case study to also produce a preservation plan specific to those elements’ needs.

3 - 4:15 PM

Juliana Principe Salazar

A Critique of Peruvian Audiovisual and Digital Preservation Practices

“A Critique of Peruvian Audiovisual and Digital Preservation Practices (2018-2023)” is a portfolio project comprising three practitioner articles that combine a historiographic analysis and field research of Peruvian audiovisual preservation context and practices. Its objective is to recommend possible pathways and workflows for Peruvian cultural institutions handling moving image and sound collections.

Attendance notes (important):

Please use your name as it appears on your ID to gain access to 721 Broadway. You must show that ID to get through security. You do not need to show your ticket anywhere else once you arrive on the 6th floor.

There are restrooms and water fountains on the floor. There will be a coffee break on Friday midday, and an informal eception after the conclusion of the presentations Friday.

These are working titles and may change before the presentation day.

Presentations are live and will not be livestreamed. Generally, photographs are allowed but the presenters might announce certain restrictions, so please follow any directives.

Host or Publisher NYU Department of Cinema Studies