Archives, Collections, & Media Management
I offer design, management, and consultation for personal, ancestral, artistic, and community-oriented audiovisual archives. I also offer a range of media management and post-production support for documentaries, oral history projects, and digital storytelling projects. I am experienced in digitizing analogue materials, reformatting digital materials, and working with born digital materials. Beyond archiving, my professional background includes oral history and digital storytelling - video production, post-production, audio engineering, web design, and photography - which I put to use within archival, retouching, reformatting, and editing processes. I am particularly interested in projects that involve marginalized voices and perspectives.
Because formats and the content within collections vary greatly from project to project, I begin exploring the potential of working together by offering a free [fifteen minute] phone call, where we discuss the basics of what you are trying to achieve.
Some things to keep in mind:
My archival and media management practice is informed by a layered, marginalized lived-experience.
I am a native mac-user and work most comfortably within mac os.
I find many systems of organization and categorization to be oppressive; dismissing, overlooking, and erasing so much of our past and present understanding of lived-experience. Therefore, I consider how to create archives, collections, and workflows that honor all involved; which includes weaving in degrees of protection for those who need it.
I approach archiving as a form of harm reduction and a way to diminish technological waste. I strive to be ecologically mindful while designing and implementing archival plans for the future. I look for and use simple, straight forward, and energetically low tech options when possible. “In the realm of ever-expanding technology, certain intentional limits enable life, sustainability, and accessibility.” - LAUREL SCHWULST
I work intuitively, around a client’s specific needs. I do not work from a formula.
I don’t agree with sticking to standards and creating systems / protocol that stem from spaces where marginalized populations weren’t considered and likely don’t have access.
I am interested in creating a stable home for the work I am tending to, while also keeping the client’s level of technological understanding in mind. It’s a balance.
I am experienced in digitizing analogue materials, reformatting digital materials, and working with born digital materials. I do not have the ability to convert all forms of analogue materials to digital because of the great variance of specialized equipment involved, but will work to find someone who can.
Beyond archiving, my professional background spans oral history and digital storytelling (video production, post-production, audio engineering, web design, and photography), which I put to use within archival, retouching, reformatting, and editing processes.