28^th  SEAPAVAA CONFERENCE

10 – 14  June 2024
Solo, Surakarta, Indonesia
Local Host Institution: National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia (ANRI)

Theme: Navigating New Horizons in Audiovisual Archiving

 

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: 24 MAY 2024

We are pleased to inform you that the registration is now open for the 28^th SEAPAVAA Conference to be held on 10 – 14 June 2024 at the Sunan Hotel Solo, Surakarta, Indonesia. This year’s conference and GA will be hosted by the National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia (ANRI). 

The registration details, conference schedule, hotel recommendations, and other information regarding the 28^th Conference are attached below and available on SEAPAVAA’s conference website.

Pre-registration for the conference is required. Walk-in participants are not accepted. The SEAPAVAA Secretariat will send a confirmation email, invoice, and invitation (if applicable) to the email address you provided on the registration form.

To register for the 28^th Conference, please click this link:  tinyurl.com/28SEAPAVAA-Registration 

For participants who are unable to access Google Forms, kindly download and fill up the PDF version of the registration form (see below). 

For inquiries, please contact the SEAPAVAA Secretariat (secretariat@seapavaa.net).

We are looking forward to welcoming you all to the 28th SEAPAVAA Conference 2024 in Surakarta, Indonesia!

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10-14 June 2024
Solo, Central Java, Indonesia
Local Host Institution: National Archives of the Republic of Indonesia (ANRI)

Theme: Navigating New Horizons in Audiovisual Archiving

At the 22^nd SEAPAVAA Conference in 2018, participants explored the practices of AV archiving beyond conventional boundaries, encompassing technological innovation, international collaboration, embracing exchange and outreach to new communities across borders.

Fast forward to 2024. The archiving world has experienced significant disruptions in multiple ways. The 28^th SEAPAVAA Conference in the UNESCO recognised region of Central Java, Indonesia, provides an excellent opportunity for attendees to explore the new horizons beckoning (and summoning) AV archives.

The evolving archiving landscape is seeing technology and artificial intelligence rapidly advancing. Climate change and sustainability concerns are taking center stage, and imaginative collaborations are taking shape between archival institutions, creative industries and beyond. The management of archives now requires resourceful, resilient, and inventive thinking and action.

The two-day symposium scheduled for 11-12 June 2024 is the platform for exploring the wide range of issues, methodologies, experiments, products and to stimulate new conversations amongst conference participants, speakers, and vendors.

We welcome proposals that explore but are not limited to the following topics. We also encourage submission of proposals on other topics related to your AV collection, workflows, research, or management:

• Disaster Management and Adapting to Challenges in Archiving
  • Physical disaster recovery
  • Digital disaster risk management and recovery
  • Analogue and digital – balancing attention, funding, and the practicalities of a diverse collection
  • Climate change and sustainable futures
• Collaboration
  • Collaborating to facilitate preservation, access and programming
  • How and why AV archiving can enrich communities
  • Voices, belonging, and representation – seeing ourselves in the archive
  • Diversity and inclusion in collection policies
• Archival Practice
  • Challenges, innovation and opportunities in the archiving profession
  • Archiving amidst transformation on all fronts
  • Rights management
• Preserving Memory and AV heritage
  • Enabling access through technology
  • Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning in AV collections

Submission

1. Email your proposal in English as an MS Word file by 22 January 2024 to: secretariat@seapavaa.net.

2. The proposal can be submitted by an individual contributor or as a pre-constituted panel. It should include the following details:

2.1 Individual contributors (20 minutes max.)

• Title of proposal
• Theme focus
• Abstract (max 250 words)
• Name, institution and presenter’s bio (max 250 words)

2.2 Pre-constituted panel (90 minutes max, including discussion)

• Title of panel
• Theme focus
• Abstract (max 250 words)
• Names, institutions, and bio of proponents (max 250 words for each presenter)
• Names, institutions and bio (max 250 words) of presenter(s) if proponent(s) is/are not also the presenter(s)

3. The submitted proposals will be reviewed by the members of the papers working group. Notifications of the acceptance of proposals will be issued by 26 February 2024.

4. Accepted proponents must confirm their ability to attend and present in-person in OR via Zoom by 15 March 2024.

IN-PERSON:

The presentation materials are to be submitted to secretariat@seapavaa.net by 25 May 2024. The travel expenses, accommodation, and subsistence of attending are the full responsibility of the Presenters.

VIA ZOOM:

The pre-recorded presentations are to be submitted secretariat@seapavaa.net by 25 May 2024. Presenters who are not attending virtually are required to join the Q&A segments online.

5. Conference registration fees of all confirmed Presenters will be waived.

6. KEY DATES TO TAKE NOTE:

Deadline for submission of proposals	22 January 2024
Notification of acceptance of proposals	26 February 2024
Deadline for confirmation to present in-person OR via Zoom	15 March 2024
Submission of presentation materials	25 May 2024
Symposium	11 – 12 June 2024

Please email secretariat@seapavaa.net (Kamille Olaño) if you have any queries.

The World Day for Audiovisual Heritage (WDAVH) – 27^th October – is a key initiative by UNESCO and the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA) to honour audiovisual preservation professionals and institutions that safeguard our heritage for future generations. Around the world, audiovisual archives join together annually on this day to celebrate their work with events that highlight the vulnerability of these valuable materials and the unheralded work of the institutions that provide protection, preservation, and access to the materials.

The theme for this year’s WDAVH  is “Your Window to the World”. Audiovisual materials can tell your story, your truth, and your presence. They provide a window to the world, allowing us to observe events we cannot attend, hear voices from the past who can no longer speak, and craft stories that inform and entertain. By listening to recorded sounds and looking at images captured on film and video we can not only appreciate the richness of this culture but also learn from it.

SEAPAVAA joins the global celebrations of the 2023 WDAVH and highly encourages our members to share how they are celebrating the #AudiovisualHeritageDay. You may fill in the form at the CCAAA page and provide information about your respective events by sending a descriptive text (500-words max.) and one (1) image per event.

Happy 2023 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage!

Dhani Sugiharto

Dhani Sugiharto at SEAPAVAA’s 27th Conference in Pattaya, Thailand

10 May 2023

SEAPAVAA is deeply saddened to learn on 31 July 2023 about the passing of Dhani Sugiharto. His funeral service was held in his hometown at Rembang (Central Java) on 3 July 2023.

Dhani Sugiharto was a member of the Executive Council (2008 – 2011) and an active SEAPAVAA member, representing ANRI (National Archive of the Republic of Indonesia) since 2003. He was the head of the Archives Storage Department at ANRI. He continued to support SEAPAVAA activities, attending and presenting at the 27th SEAPAVAA Conference in May 2023 in Thailand.

We extend our deepest condolences to Dhani’s family, colleagues and to all who knew him. He will be missed and always remembered.

The SEAPAVAA Executive Council would like to thank the following for enabling the success of our 27^th SEAPAVAA Conference:

• Thai Film Archive (Public Organization) for hosting the conference
• UNESCO Bangkok, Father Ray Foundation, Designated Areas for Sustainable Tourism Administration (Public Organization), and the City of Pattaya for supporting the conference
• Conference speakers, symposium presenters, moderators, workshop instructors, and tradeshow exhibitors

We would also like to thank the 160 conference delegates who joined us in Pattaya, Thailand.

We are currently preparing the permitted presentation recordings on SEAPAVAA’s YouTube channel and permitted presentation slides on SEAPAVAA’s website. We will notify you again when they are available.

You may also check our Facebook page for SEAPAVAA’s online Archival Gems Screening.

We hope to see everyone at next year’s 28^th SEAPAVAA Conference in Indonesia. Please visit SEAPAVAA’s website and Facebook page for more news and updates.

The 2023 SEAPAVAA Executive Council Elections were held during the 27^th SEAPAVAA General Assembly on 12 May 2023 at the Mahatai Pattaya Convention Center, Thailand. The newly elected Executive Council will serve a three-year term from 2023 – 2026.

We would like to thank the outgoing SEAPAVAA Executive Council (2020 – 2023) for their service and dedication to the Association and we welcome the incoming SEAPAVAA Executive Council (2023 – 2026) as they lead the Association for the next 3 years.

Information about the SEAPAVAA Executive Council (2023 – 2026) is available at this link: seapavaa.net/executive-council/

We are pleased to announce that SEAPAVAA will be conducting a workshop on High Productivity Digitization at the 27^th SEAPAVAA Conference on 8 – 9 May 2023 at the Mahatai Pattaya Convention Center in Pattaya, Thailand. The workshop will be led by Jim Lindner, SEAPAVAA Associate Individual member and SEAPAVAA Fellow, with assistance from David Barnard, Managing Director of Gencom Technology.

Synopsis

In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn the concepts of high-productivity film digitization using next-generation tools. The participants will be requested to bring a reel of 16mm film and a high-capacity memory stick with them to the workshop. Participants will have hands-on experience learning how to scan their own film and will leave with a digitized copy of the film they have brought with them on a memory stick. Participants will learn by doing and have a real film in their collection that they digitized to bring home.

The workshop would be divided into two parts: The first part will be a lecture that will last for half a day where they will learn some of the issues and difficulties associated with digitizing film quickly and inexpensively. The lecture will discuss different methods to process the materials and digitize them.

For the second part, participants will work with a new generation of scanner which is less expensive and has higher productivity than current technology. The participants will form into different teams and they will learn together and from each other how to process the work efficiently. In addition to actually doing the migration, we will discuss their actual collections and issues that they have.

Workshop Details

Date:                                     8 – 9 May 2023

Time:                                    9:00am – 4:00pm

Venue:                                  Mahatai Pattaya Convention Center

Instructors:                           Jim Lindner and David Barnard

Max. No. of Participants:     30 participants

NOTE:

1. Pre-registration for the workshop is required. Walk-in participants are not accepted.
2. Acceptance of registration is on a first-come, first-served basis due to the cap on the number of participants. Acceptance of additional participants will be consulted with the workshop instructors.
3. The workshop fee INCLUDES workshop materials, lunch, and coffee breaks.
4. To register, kindly visit SEAPAVAA’s conference website.
5. The workshop fee is as follows:

• • SEAPAVAA Member           –   US$ 100.00
  • Non-SEAPAVAA Member   –   US$ 200.00
  • International Students        –   US$ 100.00 

Details of the conference workshop and other conference information (i.e., registration, tentative schedule, etc.) are available on SEAPAVAA’s conference website at https://seapavaaconference.com.

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We are pleased to announce that Giovanna Fossati will deliver the keynote lecture at the 27^th SEAPAVAA Conference on 8 – 13 May 2023 at the Mahatai Pattaya Convention Center in Pattaya, Thailand.

Giovanna Fossati is the Chief Curator of Eye Filmmuseum and Professor of Film Heritage and Digital Film Culture at the University of Amsterdam. She recently led the research project The Sensory Moving Image Archive: Boosting Creative Reuse for Artistic Practice and Research and she is currently participating in the project Narratives from the long tail: Transforming access to audiovisual archives.

Fossati is the author of From Grain to Pixel (2009 and 2018 – revised edition), co-author of Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema (2015) and Exposing the Film Apparatus (2016), and co-editor of The Colour Fantastic (2018) and the special issue of The Moving Image journal on “Activating the Archive” (2021).

Following up on her position statement “For a Global Approach to Audiovisual Heritage” (2021), Fossati organized the conference Global Audiovisual Archiving: Exchange of Knowledge and Practices (Eye Filmmuseum, 2022) where more than 90 speakers and 270 participants from around the world discussed the impact of geographical location, availability of resources, technical and digital gaps on film heritage practices, and reflected together about new models for collaboration.

Giovanna will present her keynote lecture titled, Global Audiovisual Archiving: A Call for Collaboration and Sustainability.

Details of Giovanna’s keynote lecture and other conference details (i.e., registration, tentative schedule, etc.) are available on SEAPAVAA’s conference website at https://seapavaaconference.com.

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27^TH  SEAPAVAA CONFERENCE
8 – 13 May 2023
Pattaya, Thailand

Local Host Institution: Thai Film Archive (Public Organization)

Theme: Sustainable AV Archives For The Community

DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: 24 APRIL 2023

We are pleased to inform you that the registration is now open for the 27^th SEAPAVAA Conference to be held on 8 – 13 May 2023 at the Mahatai Pattaya Convention Center in Pattaya, Thailand. The host organisation is the Thai Film Archive (Public Organization). The conference theme is “Sustainable AV Archives For The Community”.

The registration details, tentative schedule, and other information regarding the 27^th Conference are available on SEAPAVAA’s conference website.

Pre-registration for the conference is required. Walk-in participants are not accepted. The SEAPAVAA Secretariat will send a confirmation email, invoice, and invitation (if applicable) to the email address you provided on the registration form.

To register for the 27^th Conference, please click this link: forms.gle/F6HkUDPYq6rLro9aA.

For participants who are unable to access Google Forms, kindly download and fill up the PDF version of the registration form:

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For inquiries, please contact the SEAPAVAA Secretariat (secretariat@seapavaa.net).