Howard Besser announced as a plenary speaker–The Image Conference, LA

Howard Besser is Director of the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation masters degree program (MIAP) at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University in New York City. He’ll be presenting his plenary presentation, Image in an Age of Re-Contextualization, at The International Conference on the Image, 2-3 December 2010 at the University of California, Los Angeles.

In addition to teaching MIAP courses, he teaches a regular Cinema Studies course on “New Media, Installation Art, and the Future of Cinema” (http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/howard/Classes/newmedia08/).  His current research projects involve preserving digital public television (http://www.ptvdigitalarchive.org/), preserving and providing digital access to dance performance (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/arts/dance/20bloo.html and http://www.merce.org/studioandclasses_mm.html), preserving difficult electronic works, issues around copyright and fair use, Do-It-Yourself media, and the changing nature of media with the advent of digital delivery systems. More on Howard Besser…

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