AMIA-McGill

09/25/2019

For those interested in taking on an executive position with the AMIA McGill Chapter, please send a short blurb about yourself (including year of study) and the position you would like to obtain to [email protected]

Available positions:

Vice-President (President next year)
Secretary
Communications Officer
Treasurer

05/01/2019

Digital Audio Visual Archival Technician YCW position at AGO: https://ago.ca/jobs-and-volunteering?fbclid=IwAR0LeExV5AbYqMLcfEJhwVC1T5Yj1W3d8WmNDkXLw-PsHSPejnMSye8qTOU

04/14/2019

Some photos from our Symposium in February!

04/04/2019

More internships + scholarships

AMIA administers the first scholarship program of its kind designed specifically for students wishing to pursue careers in moving image archiving. Currently the program awards three annual scholarships – the Sony Pictures Scholarship, The Rick Chace Foundation Scholarship, and the Universal Studio...

04/03/2019

Check out this internship in Hawaii! They are also accepting those who have just graduated and are not returning to school.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2019 Roselani Media Preservation Internship at ‘Ulu‘ulu Moving Image Archive! The student selected as the 2019 Roselani Intern must be committed to the p…

03/25/2019

A photo from our last tour at Concordia's VCR featuring a work by Richard Kerr on display. Thanks to Charlotte Forbes for the photo!

02/12/2019

A Edmonton man is making sure awareness for black history isn’t confined to the 28 days in February that make up Black History Month.

01/30/2019

WOW!

TIFF is a charitable cultural organization with a mission to transform the way people see the world, through film.

01/29/2019

*~Meet the Presenters~*

PAMELA SMOFSKY is your local MISt hobby astrologer and expert on all things crowd sourced. She’ll be presenting on how and why to digitize your home movies, and who knows, you might even get to see a video of her being the cutest little gal ever. Only a few short weeks until the AMIA Symposium! Don't forget to register!

[ : a meme of the astrology signs as movies from the 90s: Aries as Fight Club, Ta**us as Jurassic Park, Gemini as Toy Story, Cancer as Home Alone, Leo as Clueless, Virgo as the Sixth Sense, Libra as Titanic, Scorpio as Pulp Fiction, Sagittarius as Forrest Gump, Capricorn as the Silence of the Lambs, Aquarius as Edward Scissorhands and Pisces as the Lion King]

01/28/2019

The Association of Moving Image Archivists McGill Chapter is proud to present our annual Symposium: Obsolescence: from forgotten formats to digital futures.

When: February 18th, 2019 10:30 am - 4pm

Where: Research Commons A, McLennan Library Building, 3459 rue McTavish

With Student Presentations:

"It is All Made Up, and Everything Matters: Creating the Le***an Archive" - Emma Wilson

“A CKUT 90.3FM Community Case Study: Cassette Tape Digitization” - Paige Stewart

"Preserving Memory: Home Movie Digitization" - Pamela Smofsky

“ A Review of Several Audiovisual Archive Case Studies in Africa” - Laura Jacyna

Professional Guests:

Alexandra Jokinen
Digital Processing Archivist
Canadian Centre for Architecture

Louis Rastelli
Director and co-founder
ARCMTL

Alexandra Mills
Special Collections Archivist
Concordia University

Melissa Pipe
Documentation Technician (Audiovisual Archive)
Marvin Duchow Music Library, McGill University

Gordon Burr
Former Senior Archivist
McGill University

Please register at: https://bit.ly/2WkdWHA