Faculty of Arts Events Calendar
Public Lecture: IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Jennifer Vanderburgh (Saint Mary's University), 鈥榃hat VHS Remembers: Activating Obsolescence for the Future of TV Heritage'
Location: Theatre Absolute鈥檚 Shopfront Theatre, Coventry
Research Seminar: IAS Visiting Fellow Dr Jennifer Vanderburgh (Saint Mary's University), 鈥榃hat VHS Remembers: Activating Obsolescence for the Future of TV Heritage'
Date: 2/7/2019
Time: 4.30pm
Venue: Theatre Absolute鈥檚 Shopfront Theatre, Coventry
All welcome.
About: Are your old videocassettes piles of junk, or precious artefacts? Dr. Jennifer VanderBurgh explains why home recordings of television from the video era should be preserved and taken seriously. Contemporary video accumulation projects happening in Canada, the US, and the UK, show us how people who recorded TV at home were inadvertent archivists and why preserving their collections in 2019 is essential for the future of television memory.