Faculty Interview: Mona Jimenez this Friday, February 11
February 8, 2005 10:54 AMMona Jimenez, a candidate for a full-time faculty position in the department's M.A. Program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, will present "Tools of Video Art: Documenting Custom Devices" on Friday, February 11, 2:00 – 3:30 pm in Room 656.
Professor Jimenez will also meet with students from 10:30 – 11:30 am in Room 656.
Professor Jimenez is a visual artist who has been an advocate and organizer for the preservation of independent media since the early 1990s. She is currently working as an Assistant Professor/Moving Image Preservation Specialist at New York University. As faculty in NYU's new graduate program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, her primary focus is on film, video and digital media preservation, collection management, and the history and theory of new media. She has consulted extensively on preservation projects with public television stations, community media stations, museums, libraries, artist spaces, and web-based groups. She was also instrumental in the creation of the national consortium Independent Media Arts Preservation, and served as its first Director. She has worked on key symposia advancing media preservation practice, including TechArcheology: Installation Art Preservation, and Looking Back/Looking Forward, a symposium on video re-mastering. In 2003, she was Researcher-in-Residence at the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, where she studied the history and documentation of custom devices used to create early video art.