Monday, February 3, 2020
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM (ET)
VCAM VCAM 001 Screening Room
Event Type
Workshop/Information Session
Contact
Bursese, Stephanie
Department
Hurford Center for the Arts and Humanities
Link
https://ems-web.haverford.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=86073
Collaborative Cataloging Japan’s (CCJ) Executive Director and Curator, Ann Adachi-Tasch will present a brief history of Japanese experimental film and video, the current situation of the film and video’s preservation efforts, and CCJ’s method and strategy for safeguarding this legacy. Adachi-Tasch will speak on the motivations behind establishing the organization, and her story of arriving at the project.
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Collaborative Cataloging Japan is a a not-for-profit that supports preservation and archiving of Japanese historical and experimental moving image works. Adachi-Tasch has worked at The Museum of Modern Art, where she managed projects for the Museum’s global research initiative titled Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), and contributed to the launch of its digital platform, post (post.at.moma.org). In 2009, she organized a touring screening program and publication of Japanese experimental video and film, Vital Signals at Electronic Arts Intermix. She has given presentations and written about the status of media archiving in Japan, at The Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; Tate Modern (London); Keio University Art Center (Tokyo); and the Archives of American Art (Washington D.C.), among others.
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This event is part of a Philadelphia Area Creative Collaboratives (PACC) project called ‘Translation Through Time: Image, Text, and Language’. This collaborative group consists of artist Shuzo Azuchi Gulliver; Ann Adachi-Tasch, Executive Director, Collaborative Cataloging Japan; Tetsuya Sato, Senior Lecturer and Director of Japanese Language Program at Haverford College; Sato’s’s course ‘Advanced Japanese’; Erin Schoneveld, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Assistant Professor of Visual Studies; and Director of the Visual Studies Program at Haverford College; Schoneveld’s Course ‘Japanese Modernism Across Media’; Kimiko Suzuki, Lecturer in Japanese at Haverford College, and Suzuki’s Course ‘Third-Year Japanese’.
More info at: https://collaboratives.haverford.edu/translation-through-time/