
Caroline Gil Rodriguez
SELECT EXPERIENCE
Fellow in Media Conservation, MoMA, Working in tandem with the media conservation team, responsible for the preservation of audio, film, performance, software and video-based artworks in the collection.
Digital Project Archivist, Wildlife Conservation Society Library & Archives, Digital project archivist for a legacy media archives project funded by the Leon-Levy Foundation.
Media Archivist, Allied Productions, Collection Assessment, arrangement and re-housing of Allied Productions and Naked Eye Cinema's audiovisual and paper archive.
Conservation Fellow, Kramlich Collection & New Art Trust, Preparation of OAIS compliant Archival Information Packages for ingest into the collection’s digital repository. Creation of Preservation Description Information for digital assets, editing and validating METS XML records
Media Preservation Assistant, NYU Bobst Library, Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department, Inspected films, video and audio recordings for condition and content, supported in the digitization of video and audio recordings for long-term preservation. Conducted research on special collections media holdings.
Archive Fellow, Smithsonian Institution, Ralph Rinzler Center for Folklife & Cultural Heritage, Management and creation of a workflow for ingesting a/v born digital assets into Smithsonian’s DAMS. Running data validation checks, embedding metadata using IPTC Core, administering micro reporting on files.
Library Intern, New York Public Library Film and Video Reserve, Processing, inspection, and cataloging of 16mm and 35mm film collections; creation of a finding aid; inspection and inventory of film projection equipment
Assistant Librarian and Image Digitization, Biblioteca Francisco Oller, Escuela de Artes Plásticas, Scanning and cataloguing EAP’s photography archive, cataloging and assisting in the management of an Art School Library.
Archive Apprenticeship, Filmoteca Cataluña, Reporting and assessing the archive’s nitrate collection, cleaned and repaired film tears for scanning, performed preliminary digital restoration using Diamant Restoration suite. Preparing film prints for exhibition.
EDUCATION
Moving Image Archiving and Preservation, MA Degree (2014-2016)
New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
Director of Photography, MA Degree (2007-2008)
Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya, Universitat de Barcelona
SELECT MEDIA PRESERVATION PROJECTS
Member of the XFR Collective
National Film Preservation Grant (2017) for Troublemakers (1966), Norman Fruchter and Robert Machover in collaboration with the Flaherty Film Seminar Preservation Initiative
Transcription, translation and subtitling of José Rodriguez Soltero’s Dialogue with Che (2016 National Film Preservation Avant Garde Masters grant)
Triple Canopy
Allied Productions Archive
Anita Thacher Collection
Diego Echeverría Collection
APEX (Audiovisual Preservation Exchange)
APEX Santiago, organizer, 2016
APEX Buenos Aires, participant, 2015
Community Archiving Workshops
Scribe Video Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2017
Señal 3, Santiago, Chile, 2016
Downtown Community Television Center, New York, New York, 2016
SELECT WRITING & RESEARCH PROJECTS
Interview with Allison Anders on Mi Vida Loca, Screen Slate, 2018
No Dumping on Video Salad Days, A Jackass Reader by Screen Slate, 2017
Not Nothing, Tying Lose Ends On Our Legacy Digital Workflow, 2017
Getting Data Out Of Its Floppy Cage, 2017
Review for Train of Shadows, 2016
Los Sures Filmmaker Diego Echeverría Interview, 2016
Towards Archiving Third World Newsreel's Media Collections, 2016
“Video is Television. Television is Home. Home is Where the Art Is”: Jaime Davidovich and The Live! Show, 2015
Third World Filmmaker's Meetings, 2014
La Bodega Sold Dreams: Nuyorican Film in the 60's and 70's, 2014
El Pecado Original: José Rodríguez Soltero's film work, 2013
Fast Forward: A Rapid Succession Look into Puerto Rican Experimental Film, 2013