Blog - eddycolloton

Vertical Blanking Interval (VBI) and head switching artifacts detected by AV Spex “frame analysis” feature (still under development) Prioritizing Manual QC Manual inspection of video - watching every frame - will always be an important part of rigorous qu…

AV Spex AV Spex is a macOS application I wrote in Python.

INPT: INgest and Processing Toolkit INPT (INgest and Processing Toolkit) is a bash scripted command line tool for automating the processing workflow for time-based media at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (HMSG).

I have no idea what I’m doing For the past five years I’ve had the opportunity to learn coding on the job.

Variable Media Conservator Briana Feston-Brunet inserting a hard drive into a USB enclosure connected to a forensic bridge In the summer of 2021, my friend and colleague Caroline Gil & I taught a two-day workshop on disk imaging for the media archiving te…

A terrifying hole, likely a printer start punch, on the first frame of our film scan.

Worlds collide!

The following text is an excerpt from a paper co-written by Jonathan Farbowitz, Flaminia Fortunato, Caroline Gil and myself.

Rock Formation (2006) by Jennifer Steinkamp, installed at the Denver Art Museum in 2011 as part of “Focus: The Figure” exhibition The Denver Art Museum (DAM) has an encyclopedic collection of over 70,000 artworks, spanning centuries and the entire globe,…

Sailor Moon inspired photo of the AAPB NDSR cohort (cause we're nerds) I recently completed my residency at Louisiana Public Broadcasting, as part of my role as a National Digital Stewardship Resident (NDSR) in the American Archive of Public Broadcasting…

1973-1974 - Water Skiing and Snow Skiing Home movie shot by James Colloton Sr. from 1973-1974 (8mm film, approx. 400 ft).

The following post describes my MA thesis project report: Re-constructions: Preserving the Video Installations of Buky Schwartz The report includes installation specifications for two video installations: Spring 1981 (1981) and Three Angles of Coordination

The following text is an excerpt from a full Assessment Report written as part of my course work in the Moving Image Archiving and Preservation MA program at NYU in April of 2015.

The following text is an excerpt from the report I submitted to the Denver Art Museum's Conservation department, upon completion of my project.

The following post was originally written for the Voices in Contemporary Art (VoCA) Blog.

I had the good fortune to attend the New (+Old) Media: Restoration, Preservation, Archiving and Access Meeting and Symposium this summer, from June 25-27.

Almost a year ago, Brian Haack and I (my collaborator on the Sound Design for the German Expressionist Exhibit at LACMA) began work on the "sonic accompaniment" for the iPad App The Plunge of Icarus.

I created a sequence of prints from a mitsubishi video printer for the 2013 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Staff Art Show.

At the Gate is a short video I created for the 2013 Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Staff Film Festival.

Here's a recent collection of video static I've collected, and manipulated.