Mona Jimenez

Mona Jimenez first came to Owego in 1988 as an artist-in-residence at the Experimental Television Center (ETC). Since that time she has collaborated with Sherry Miller Hocking and ETC on numerous projects on video history and media preservation. Most recently she co-edited with Sherry and Kathy High The Emergence of Video Processing Tools: Television Becoming Unglued (Intellect Books, 2014) about 1970s-80s video instruments invented by artists and engineers. A book launch and discussion will be held the week following her residency at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City.

Mona works as an educator, organizer and advocate for the preservation of independent media and media art. She teaches video preservation, the preservation of new media and installation art, and collection management at New York University's graduate program in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation. She initiated the program Audiovisual Preservation Exchange and has worked collaboratively with moving image archivists and advocates in Ghana, Argentina, Uruguay, and Colombia. She will be leading a team in July 2014 to establish a sound preservation station at the Institute for African Studies at the University of Ghana – Legon.

Mona experiments with and promotes community-based archiving of media collections and was instrumental in the creation of an annual Community Archiving Workshop organized by the Independent Media Interest Group of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. She is on on the organizing committee for Tech Focus III: Caring for Computer-based Art (in planning for September 2015), a project of the Electronic Media Interest Group of the American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works. Past projects have included the Artists Instrumentation Database Project, developed through a research residency at the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology, and with Paul Messier and the Bay Area Video Coalition, TechArcheaology, the first US-based symposium on the preservation of media art installations.