VHS Archives Working Group

The VHS Archives Working Group brings together scholars, students, librarians, archivists, technologists and community members interested in discussing questions, concerns and best practices about the use, preservation, digitization, and research of VHS collections currently held by organizations, scholars, artists, and activists.

Each month a member of the working group will present their archive and the questions, difficulties, surprises, losses and bounty it holds. The group will use each test case as a fertile opportunity to better frame their own video archives, and the broader questions raised by holdings of media nearing format-obsolescence.

Go to VHS Archives

#100hardtruths-#fakenews:
A primer on digital media literacy

Fake News Poetry Workshops:
Radical digital media literacy

FemTechNet:
A network of hundreds of international scholars and artists.

Feminist Online Spaces:
Building & Linking Principled Sites in Collaboration

Ev-ent-anglement.com:
an experiment in digital embodied collective feminist media praxis

PerpiTube:
Repurposing Social Media Spaces:
www.youtube.com/PerpiTubeSpace

WordPress Blog:
aljean.wordpress.com

YouTube Class: youtube.com/mediapraxisme

Media Praxis Online Publication: www.mediapraxis.org

Alex Juhasz on Vimeo

VHS Archive: A Brooklyn College graduate course and GC Center for Humanities Working Group exploring what to do with our soon-to-be-obsolete but always-beloved collections.

Women of Vision:
Research Meeting on Feminist Film and Video History, NYC 1994

Pandemic Media

What we watch, share, want, disregard, erase, don’t watch, and imagine in times of bodily assault.

VHS Activism Archive

VHS Archives considers how to store, transfer, share, research, and reactivate media collections facing obsolescence. It is a database of one VHS collection with information, citation, and in some case digitization that can lead to more.

Long Hauling

A series of essays highlighting the stories of “long COVID” survivors and community efforts to use the lessons learned from other viruses to provide care for patients during the early months of the outbreak.

Long COVID: We Are Here!

Relational Space Gallery online exhibit. A fearless exploration into the long-haul experience.

Metanoia Online

What happens when we center HIV history around Black women’s experience and contributions to AIDS Activism?

Metanoia: Transformation through AIDS Archives

Curated by What Would an HIV AIDS Doula Do? (collective members, Katherine Cheairs, Alexandra Juhasz, Theodore Kerr, Jawanza Williams), Metanoia: Transformation through AIDS Archives is an archival examination of community-based responses to the ongoing AIDS crisis in the USA.