AMIA 2026

AMIA 2026

8:30am EST

Compact Cassette Repair and Rehousing TBAKarl Fleck • Bryce Roe Sustainable AI for Sovereign Audiovisual Archives TBAErik Mannens • Matthias Priem

9:00am EST

May 1,000 Moiré Patterns Bloom: Exploring Alternative Signal Flows for 3/4" U-matic Transfers TBABrianna Toth • Emily Nabasny • Nilson Carroll Film Restoration Essentials for Small Archives and Non-Profits TBAFabio Bedoya Technical Basics for Non-Engineers TBAJames Snyder

1:30pm EST

Creating your Own Organizational Sustainability Playbook TBAKatherine Kim • Sherr Lo • Sendy Alcidonis • Rachel Mattson

12:00am EST

From the Cellar to the Cinema: Pittsburgh Sound + Image's Origins TBASteven Haines Mid-Century Amateur Film/Photo Culture in the Ira Current Collection TBAJamie Marie Wagner • JoAnna Ramsey Progression By Destruction: Community Displacement in Los Angeles TBAJessica Sanchez

8:30am EST

Welcome & Keynote TBAAndrea Leigh

11:00am EST

From Archive to Exhibition: Preserving and Presenting Video Art TBANilson Carroll Archivists Giving Back TBALinda Tadic • Nancy Watrous • Dave Rice Digital Videotape, More Fragile Than You Know TBANick Allen • Matt Patoray • Jason Zito Completing the Incomplete: Using Photos, Promotional Materials, and Documentary Evidence in Film Restoration TBAMary Huelsbeck • Robert Byrne • Dennis Doros • Jenny Romero

11:30am EST

Days of Future Past: Maintaining Access to 140 Years of Film and Tape Content TBAJames Snyder

2:00pm EST

AI Assisted Artistry for Film Restoration TBABrian Gaffney Bless this Mess: Navigating Archival Grain by Building Cross-Disciplinary Partnerships TBABecca Hall • Agata Zborowska • Mickey Gral • Julian Antos Getting it Right: Restoration of William Greaves' THE FIGHT TBAGiles Sherwood • Jason Crump • Andrew Oran • Elena Rossi-Snook

2:30pm EST

From Storage to Strategy: Evolving Digital Preservation at Paramount TBAJessica Storm

3:15pm EST

Archiving on the Margins of Legality TBAHannah Garibaldi • Margaret Mertz • Janet Reinschmidt • Kelsey Moore • Tori De Santiago From All Corners of Campus: Exploring Audiovisual Archives in Academia TBAGiselle Hengst • Stephanie Sapienza • Eli Boonin-Vail • Janine Winfree • Namrah Khan Restoring Len Lye’s Experimental Color Films with Multi-spectral Scanning TBAKathy Rose O'Regan • Robert Byrne • Barbara Flueckiger A Good Problem to Have: Windfall Digitization Funding TBAHilary Gunnels Arkebara Collective: Strengthening Global Audiovisual Archives Through Horizontal Collaboration TBAWua Ling Wu Brigham Young University TBAMichael Gates Lacunae and the Long Tail: Curating the Obama Presidency Oral History TBAChris Pandza Obscuragraphy: Home Movies Documenting Eclipses TBAFrancesca C. DiBona Preserving Oral Histories with Interactive Exhibits TBACraig Stubing The Ups and Downs of Ongoing Optical Media Preservation TBALauren Jefferson

4:30pm EST

White Models: A Three-Dimensional Concern TBAHunter Aarniokoski • Holly McGee Who Knew?: What Became of Pittsburgh’s WRS Collection? TBAOscar Becher • Steven Haines • Sandra Schulberg The Digital Restoration of Athens, GA: Inside/Out TBARuta Abolins • Margaret A. Compton • Ryan Lewis • Stuart Baker

7:00pm EST

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans TBARobert Byrne • Kathy Rose O'Regan

10:00pm EST

Flashdance TBAJeff McCarty

9:00am EST

Join us in the Pavilion TBA

9:30am EST

Archiving Forty Years of Experimental Dance: Challenges and Triumphs TBABenja Thompson • Karen Bernard “Radical Troublemakers” and “Berkeley Stuff": Revisiting California Newsreel in 2026 TBAGreta Snider • Courtney Fellion • Kate Dollenmayer Trust in Archives Panel TBARachel Antell • Devin Orgeron

10:00am EST

HDR Uncovered: What It’s About, Why It Matters in Filmscanning TBAMichael Schneider

11:00am EST

The Past, Present, and Future of the Lesbian Herstory Archives’ Film Collection TBAElizabeth M. Lynch Sullivan Archival Practice on GenAI and Authentication and Access TBAPatricia Aufderheide • Williams Cole • Brian Real Collaborative Futures: Grassroots Strategies for AV Preservation TBAElizabeth Hansen • Libby Hopfauf • Chris Castro • Pamela Vadakan • Moriah Ulinskas

11:30am EST

Private Visions? Gay Home Movies and Amateur Filmmaking before Stonewall TBAHugo Ljungbäck

12:00pm EST

A New Guide on Archiving Video for Human Rights TBAYvonne Ng Brigham Young University TBAMichael Gates Community Description: Enhancing Audiovisual Collections for Outreach and Collaboration TBARicardo Ceballos Digital Preservation for Independent Filmmakers: Bridging the Knowledge Gap TBAMeg Koleck Situating the Tape Era Video Facility: A 1970s Post-Production History TBAPaul Dougherty

12:30pm EST

A Litany for Survival: the Life and Work of Audre Lorde TBAJT Takagi • Ada Gay Griffin • Draye Wilson Access to Oral Histories: A Case Study TBAJenni Matz • Zack Ellis Beyond PowerPoint: Documenting 1970s and 1980s Corporate Multi-Image Slideshows TBAZachary Vanes • Steve Michelsen

2:00pm EST

Pleasant Nightmares: Horror Hosts and the Collective Experience of Broadcast Terror TBAJimi Jones Collaborative Preservation Networks: Building Principled Partnerships with Private Collectors TBAShawn VanCour • Felèsha Love • Marley Saldivar-Lozano • Owen Gottleib Salvage to Spotlight: Highlighting Neglected Labor Film Collections TBARosemarie Fettig • Mark Coulbourne • Jenny Schollaert Copyright, Archival Fair Use, and GenAI Today: Legal Perspectives TBAPatricia Aufderheide • Michael Madison • Brandon Butler

2:30pm EST

Bill Viola Video Preservation Project at the George Eastman Museum TBAGordon Nelson • Ethan Lewis

3:15pm EST

Required Images: Archival Closure in Digital Restoration Practices TBAElise Schierbeek Finding Gugusse: Discovering, Restoring, and Sharing a Lost Méliès Film TBACourtney Holschuh • Heather Linville • Jason Evans Groth • Patrick Queen • Jason McNeal Pathways Fellowship TBAAayanah McCreary • Erica Suh • Isabella New-Walker • Laura Creecy • Macilee MacKenzie • Meg Koleck Who Controls the Algorithm? AI, Ethics, and Audiovisual Memory TBAKatrina Fenlon • Jimi Jones • Piotr Adamczyk • Jesse Johnston

3:45pm EST

A Century of Sound – Part 3 Preview TBARobert Heiber • Brian Vessa

4:30pm EST

Breaking Out the B-Roll: Accessing KAIT-8 News of Northeast Arkansas TBACaetlyn Elder Home Movies of Migration as Vehicles for Eliciting Oral Testimony TBADaniel Melfi Archives in the Age of AI: A Case Study on "Rebelles" TBARenée de Sousa • Celeste Mackenzie • Marika Lapointe Preservation as Resistance TBAJT Takagi • Ada Gay Griffin • Draye Wilson

5:00pm EST

Cleaning up The Kitchen with the Bulk Update Spreadsheet TBAChloe Patton Finding New Homes and New Futures for Ampex Museum Artifacts TBARebecca M. Gordon MediaShield Pro: AI-Based Audio Authenticity for Sound Heritage TBASami Meddeb • Sabrine Hedhli

5:15pm EST

¡HABLADA EN ESPAÑOL! Bringing Hollywood's Spanish-Language Cinema to New Audiences Through Preservation and Community Engagement TBAAlejandra Espasande Frame by Frame: "Discovery" and Restoration of a Rare 28mm Film TBADino Everett • Alan Akers • Mark Coulbourne

5:30pm EST

Grab a drink in the Pavilion TBA

7:15pm EST

Archival Screening Night TBA

8:15am EST

Keynote: Tony Buba TBATony Buba

8:30am EST

Join us in the Pavilion TBA

9:30am EST

Indie Filmmakers On Mourning and Creative Potential After Digital Loss TBAIsabela Escalona At Any Stage: Four Journeys in Disaster Recovery and Planning TBAStacey Ference • Michael Gates • Melissa Hernand The Films and Archives of Tony Buba TBAEric Hoyt • Tony Buba • Regina M. Longo • Adam Lowenstein • Amanda Smith

9:45am EST

Prepare the Firehose: Preserving an Institutional YouTube account TBAAndrew McDonnell

10:00am EST

Upscaling Analogue Audiovisual Digitization and the Lessons Learnt TBAGordon MacPhail

10:15am EST

New York African Film Festival Archives: Strategies for Solo Archivists TBAKirk Mudle

11:00am EST

Preserving Public Media at Scale, For Viewers Like You TBAKaren Cariani • Rebecca Fraimow • Rochelle Miller • Owen King • Miranda Villesvik Dolby Vision: Remastering for Classic MGM Titles TBAAshley Franks-McGill • Darren Gross • Scott Grossman • Steven Johnson • Gary Teetzel Reel to Real: Immersive Archive Experiences in Modern Studio Ecosystem TBAAaron Rogers • Natalie Auxier • Eric D. Chin • Reilly Saint Amand The Sing Lee Theatre and Chinese Language Cinema in L.A. TBAStaci Hogsett • Todd Wiener • Janet Louie

11:30am EST

Who’s in our News? Surfacing the Individuals in Television Archives TBAOwen King • Kaycee Conover • Emily Hankins

12:00pm EST

DPOE-N: Financial and Educational Resources for Archivists and Program Findings TBAKirk Mudle Preserving Brixner: Preservation & Access of Unseen Manhattan Project Footage TBAMiriYam Elanor Judd • Patty Templeton Santa Fe Bound: Solving the Mystery of Jeannine Drolet TBALindsay Miller Teaching Film Archiving: A Renewed Excitement for Analog Media TBAEli Vannata The Slow Film Movement: Echo Park Film Center records at the Getty Research Institute TBAGuadalupe Rodriguez

12:30pm EST

Beyond Digitization: Latinx Home Movies, Community Memory, and the Future We Are Preserving TBAJenni Matz • Zack Ellis Discover Pittsburgh's Jazz Legacy - We Knew What We Had - Documentary TBAMark Jackovic • Marty Ashby • Roger Humphries • Dwayne Dolphin Preserving the Films and Videos of Susan Kleckner TBAJeremy Smith • William Kaizen

2:00pm EST

Camping Out in Yiddishland: Cataloging the Films of Camp Boiberik TBAAaron Lu WeLuvVideo: How a Volunteer-Run Video Store Became a Living Archive TBAKatie T Negovschi Regalado • Amber Adamns NBC at 100: Preserving Television History TBAJen O'Leary Hashida • Cassandra Moore • Chase Schulte • Felicity Flesher

2:15pm EST

Writing a Media Retention Policy at OPB TBAMia Ferm

2:30pm EST

Film Archive CMS: A Django Implementation of the FIAF Manual TBA Appraising the Student Film Archive from a Local, Provincial and National Perspective: A Case Studty from one University-based Repository TBANicholas Avedisian-Cohen • Pamela Caussy

2:45pm EST

Developing New Video Archiving Guidance for Human Rights Defenders TBAYvonne Ng

3:15pm EST

A Different Kind of Paper Record: Digitizing Film Timing Strips TBAJoshua Yocum Can Virtual Reality find a Home in Film Archives? Should it? TBARussell Zych • Dino Everett • Zeynep Abes • Wilde Davis Preserving Pittsburgh's Queer Media History TBAAdam Charles Hart • Harrison Apple • Hugo Ljungbäck The South's Got Something to Save: Discussing Southern News Collections TBAJanine Winfree • Frances Cava-Humphrey • Jim Duran • Caetlyn Elder

3:30pm EST

It’s Your Film, Not You. Vinegar Syndrome Part Deux TBASusan Etheridge

3:45pm EST

Pardon Our Dust: Nitrate Decomposition Inspection at the Library of Congress TBACourtney Holschuh

4:00pm EST

Digitizing Douglass Crockwell's Mutoscopes: The Challenges of Hybrid Moving Image Pre-Cinema Devices TBAJacqueline Grimson

4:30pm EST

That’s a Wrap! Digitizing the WKAR Early Television Films Collection TBAAlyssa Davis • Leila Sherbini The Promise of the Lab: University Audiovisual Archives in Latin America and the Future of Preservation TBAJuana Suárez The HBCU Radio Preservation Project: Evolving Processes on the Ground TBABecca Bender • Jenohn Euland • Chinyere Neal • Bryce Roe

5:00pm EST

SODOM = DEATH: Community’s Collapse + Luther Price’s Super8 Filmmaking TBABradford Nordeen Tracing Diaspora in San Antonio’s KSAT-Television News Collection TBAAri Negovschi Regalado • Reilly Shaffer

7:00pm EST

Becoming Benjamin Lay TBA

10:00am EST

Community Archiving Workshop TBAGrace Lile • Emily Pojman • Crystal Rangel • Leila Sherbini