MIAP Student Work

MIAP maintains an extensive digital archive of student work. Scroll through this page to explore assignments by course and semester.

For questions or concerns about the work listed below, please email tisch.preservation@nyu.edu

Thesis

Summer 2024

Cameron Smith - The Interdisciplinary Archivist: A Survey of Work Completed in MIAP

Spring 2024

Spring 2023

Seraphim Arlievsky: Reclaiming Strawberry Fields: Gosfilmofond in Post-Soviet Russia

Brian Dunbar: The Right Stuff: Building a Successful AV Solution for Archives and Museums

Liza Kastrilevich: Preserving Ukraine’s Truth: Archiving Video Evidence of Human Rights Violations during the Russian Invasion

Amanda McQueen: Archiving the Smashworks Dance Collection: Born-Digital Video Preservation for Independent Artists

Kirk Mudle: A Gift to Another Age: Evaluating Virtual Machines for the Preservation of Video Games at MoMA

Tasha Randhawa: New Kids on the Blockchain: Digital Tokens and the Dawning of a New Digital Asset Class

Benjamin Rubin: Night of the Living Film: A Conservation History of George A. Romero's The Amusement Park

Claire Shaffer: The New Nitrate: Scaling the Inequity of Digital Film Preservation

Spring 2022

Spring 2021

Spring 2020

Spring 2019

Spring 2018

Spring 2017

Spring 2016

SPRING 2015

SPRING 2014

SPRING 2013

SPRING 2011

SPRING 2009

SPRING 2008

SPRING 2007

SPRING 2006

SPRING 2005

  • Jeff Martin
    Beyond The Wall Label: Moving Images in the Archives of the Brooklyn Museum (PDF, 349K)
  • Pamela Smith
    Issues of Appraisal and Selection of Community Based Video: Assessing the Videofreex Collection
  • Tanisha Jones
    Don't Touch That Dial: Assessing the Radio Series 'Soul of Reason'
  • Huiming Yu
    The Development and Current Condition of Local Chinese TV stations in New York City
  • Irene E. Taylor
    Ah, the Giraffe Dance! I remember It Well: The Transformation of a Film Collection into an Audio–Visual Collection
  • Margaret Mello
    Collecting Couture: The Moving Image Collection of the Conde Nast Publications Archive

Introduction to MIAP

Fall 2020

Group Projects 

Final Projects 

Fall 2017

Group Research Reports

Final Projects

Fall 2016

Group Research Reports
Final Projects

Fall 2014

Group Projects
Final Projects

Fall 2013

Group Projects
Final Projects

FALL 2010

FALL 2009

Final Papers

FALL 2008

Group Presentations
Final Papers

FALL 2007

Research Projects
Final Papers
Final Presentations

FALL 2005

Case Study Projects
Orphans Projects
Final Projects

FALL 2004

Case Study Projects
Orphans Projects
Final Projects

FALL 2003

Copyright

Fall 2016

Assignment 1 
Assignment 2 - Copyright in the News
Assignment 3 - Copyright Reform

Fall 2015

Assignment 1 
Assignment 2 - Copyright in the News
Assignment 3 - Copyright Reform

Fall 2008

Fall 2006

Sarah Resnick
Rights Evaluation: Executive Summary The Adams Chronicles, 1750-1900, Episode One 

Moving Image and Sound: Basic Issues and Training

Fall 2023

Lucy Talbot Allen: Opening the Shib Shed: a Brief History of Shibaden 1/2” Open Reel Video

Neil Brydon: The Iconoscope

Syrina Nuemah: The Scientific Study of Sound: The History of the Phonautograph

Carlos Abarca: Media Morgue: On the Obsolescence of Sony One-Inch EV Recorders

Julia Delgadillo: Mechanical Musical Trends: The Herophon Organette’s Brief Life

Charlie Norbury: The Arrilaser

Juliana Principe Salazar: AMTEC Time Element Compensator

Leah Simon: Grundig Stenorette Tape Cartridge: A Format History of Early Portable Tape and Technique

Fall 2022

Fall 2020

Fall 2019

Fall 2018

  • Claire Fox
    MicroMV: A Tiny Lack of Legacy (PDF, 150 KB)
  • Syreeta Gates
    To Stream or Not to Stream: The Rise and Fall of Limewire
  • Matthew Hoffman
    Color Film Stenciling
  • Mary Jackson
    The Talking Postcard (PDF, 938 KB)
  • Brianna Jones
    The Coin-Operated Phonograph: The Jukebox of The Past
  • Lan Linh Nguyen Hoai
    Color Timing - The Analog Way of Color Grading
  • Soojin Park
    A History of Film-to-Tape Transfer: Rank Cinetl's Flying Spot Telecine
  • Madeline Smith
    Flexplay: A Time Sensitive Disposable Optical Medium (PDF, 336 KB)

Fall 2017

Fall 2016

Fall 2015

Fall 2014

Fall 2013

Fall 2012

FALL 2011

FALL 2010

FALL 2008

FALL 2006

Metadata for Moving Image Collections

(Formerly Access to Moving Image Collections)

Spring 2020

Amal Ahmed and Ryan Lakin

April Griess, Shiyang Jiang, Madeleine Mendell, and Zoe Yang
NYPD Surveillance Video Collection (PDF, 1MB)

Robert Hoffman, Aparna Subramanian, and Klavier Wang
Videos of Early New York Collection - Metadata Final Project (PDF, 4.3 MB)

Alyosha Nowlin
Classic TV Commercials: Collection Overview (PDF, 546 KB)

Spring 2018

Assignment One - Metadata Mapping

Assignment Two - Collective Access Database

Spring 2016

FALL 2014

FALL 2013

FALL 2012

FALL 2011

FALL 2010

The Culture of Archives, Museums, and Libraries

(Formerly Contemporary Cultural Institutions)

Spring 2021

Assignment One: User Study of Two GLAMs

Assignment Two: Collaborative Contributions to Scrapbook-Zine

Final Project

Spring 2020

Observational Papers

Final Papers

Spring 2019

Assignment One

Assignment Two

  • Claire Fox
    Assignment 2 (PDF, restricted)
  • Syreeta Gates
    Assignment 2 (PDF, restricted) 
  • Matthew Hoffman
    Assignment 2 (PDF, restricted)
  • Mary Jackson
    Assignment 2 (PDF, restricted) 
  • Brianna Jones
    Assignment 2 (PDF, restricted)
  • Lan Linh Nguyen Hoai
    Assignment 2 (PDF, restricted) 
  • Soojin Park
    Assignment 2 (PDF, restricted)
  • Madeline Smith 
    Assignment 2 (PDF, restricted) 

Final Paper

Spring 2018

Observational Papers 

Final Papers

Spring 2017

Observational Papers
Final Papers

SPRING 2012

SPRING 2011

SPRING 2010

SPRING 2009

Collection Management

Spring 2021

  • Sarah Hartzell
    Princess Grace Foundation-USA Collection Assessment Report (PDF, Restricted)
  • Kayla Henry-Griffin
    Paul Vanouse: Consensual Fantasy Engine and Terminal Time Collection Assessment (PDF, Restricted) 
  • Lindsay Miller
    Women Make Movies Collection Assessment (PDF, Restricted) 
  • Kirk Mudle
    Collection Assessment of the New York African Film Festival Archives (PDF, Restricted) 
  • William Plotnick
    Collection Assessment for the collection of Mr. Fabiano Canosa (PDF, Restricted) 
  • Esther Rosenfield
    Center for Home Movies -- Collection Assessment (PDF, Restricted) 
  • Benjamin Rubin
    Cinema Tropcial Collection Assessment and Recommendations (PDF, Restricted) 
  • Ana Salas
    MadCat Collection Assessment (PDF, Restricted) 
  • Michael Stetz
    Individual Assessment: The Frank Mugno Collection at MARMIA (PDF, Restricted) 

Spring 2019

Group Assessment

Final Assignment

Spring 2016

Spring 2015

SPRING 2012

SPRING 2010

SPRING 2009

SPRING 2008

SPRING 2007

SPRING 2006

SPRING 2005

SPRING 2004

 

 

Digital Literacy

spring 2022

Matthew Yang Jiefeng - Unpacking the Digital Cinema Package: a guide for av archivists

José Solé - Reverse Image Search for Audiovisual Materials

Carlos Saldaña - The Film Print Database

Richard Rusincovitch - Historical Asset Management Organization System

Andrew Reichel - Digital Literacy Final project

Julita Pratiwi - THE WOMEN IN INDONESIAN CINEMA PROJECT

Adrianne Lundy - The WayBackPack: Finding Ways to Fight Linkrot

Demo

Written Guide

Momo Li - About the Use of Omeka: the Digital Exhibition of Student Work at the Art School

Jenny Hsu - Cloud Storage Options For Film Photographers

Fin Hatfield - Digital Literacy Final Project

Anthony Gonzalez - Survey of platforms for streaming audiovisual content, crowdsourcing digital humanities research

Directed Internship

For past internship summaries, see our Internship listings.

Digital Preservation

Fall 2019

Fall 2018

Fall 2017

Fall 2016

FALL 2014

Assignment #1
Assignment #2
Assignment #3

FALL 2013

Assignment #1
Assignment #2
Assignment #3

FALL 2010

FALL 2009

  • Stefan Elnabli
    Digital Asset Management Systems and their Role in the Lifecycle of Digital Objects: Toward the Long Term Preservation of Audio-Visual Collections  (PDF, Restricted)
  • Walter Forsberg
    Backup Solutions (PDF, 147K)
  • Joseph Gallucci
    Born-Digital Video as Delivery Format: Digital Betacam vs. XDCAM HD (PDF, Restricted)
  • Sandra Gibson
    From the Compact Disc to the Hard Drive: Comparing Storage Media (PDF, Restricted)
  • Siobhan Hagan
    WNYC Presents: Born Digital Audio and the Sustainability Factors (PDF, Restricted)
  • Natalie Saltiel
    Preservation Strategies for Born Digital Video Recorded with the FS-5 (.pdf, Restricted)
  • Andy Uhrich
    The Role of Metadata in the Preservation of Digital Audio Visual Content(PDF, 149K)
  • Jonah Volk
    Digital Preservation Workflow: Wrapper Formats (PDF, 92K)

FALL 2007

Video Preservation I

Fall 2018

Fall 2017

Assignment #1

FALL 2014

FALL 2013

FALL 2011

FALL 2007

Film Preservation

Recent Student Projects

This course gives students practical experience with the process of film preservation including understanding and recognizing film elements, making inspection reports, repairing film, making preservation plans, understanding laboratory processes and procedures for making new film preservation elements, and writing preservation histories. Student work involves completion of actual film preservation projects for BB Optic clients, and resulting documents are private and proprietary. However, in Spring 2018, a restoration of Samba the Great (1977) by Nigerian filmmaker Moustapha Alassane. This was a partnership between the NYU MIAP class of Spring 2018 and the French Embassy. More information can be found here.  Projects students worked on in the Spring 2020 Semester include:

  • Not the First Time by Hollis Frampton for Anthology Film Archives

  • Love by Beryl Sokoloff for Phoenix Arts funded by NFPF

  • Travers by Beryl Sokoloff for Phoenix Arts funded by NFPF

  • France III by Beryl Sokoloff for Phoenix Arts funded by NFPF

  • Still Life with Women & Four Objects by Lynne Sachs

  • The House Of Science: A Museum Of False Facts by Lynne Sachs

  • One Hand Don’t Clap by Kavery Kaul

  • Aqua by Samba Félix Ndiaye in partnership with the French Embassy

  • Le Damier by Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda with the French Embassy

In Spring 2021, students in Bill’s class will work on Saul Levine’s Notes on an Early Fall (1976) in partnership with the Flaherty Film Seminar, which is supported by the National Film Preservation Fund (NFPF) award, the research related to the proposal was conducted by MIAP ‘18 alum Miles Levy as part of the course in spring 2018. More information can be found here.

Handling Complex Media

Spring 2024

Matthew Yang Jiefeng: Diverse Approaches to Caring for Time-Based Media: Internet Archive

Carlos Saldaña: Diverse Approaches to Caring for TBM: Third World Newsreel

Andrew Reichel: The Film-makers' Cooperative

Julita Pratiwi: On Handling Time-Based Media Collection: The Case of The Brooklyn Museum

Anthony Gonzalez: The Tate Time-Based Media (TiBM) Conservation Team

Sixuan (Momo) Li: A Brief Research on TBM Caring of Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Fin Hatfield: Ciclic and Networks of Care

Jenny Hsu: Diverse Approached to Caring for TBM: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Adrianne Lundy: Video Game History Foundation

José Solé: The Whitney Museum's Comprehensive Approach to Time-Based Media Care

Spring 2021

Midterm Preservation Plan

Final Preservation Plan

Spring 2020

Midterm Presentations

Final Presentations

SPRING 2011

SPRING 2010

FALL 2006

FALL 2005

FALL 2004

Curating Moving Images

Orphans Film Symposium

This course focuses on the practice of film exhibition and programming in museums, archives, and independent exhibition venues. It examines the goals of public programming, the constituencies such programs attempt to reach, and the cultural ramifications of presenting archival materials to audiences. During the biennial Orphans Film Symposium, student work often takes the form of production of the live event. To learn more, check out Orphans Online (2020) and past symposia.

SPRING 2007

Past Courses