Amye McCarther is an arts archivist, media conservator based in New York. Her experience has included directing archival programs and processing film and video collections for museums and artist foundations, including the New Museum, the Merce Cunningham Trust, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, the Judd Foundation, the Whitney Museum, the Harry Ransom Center, the Joan Mitchell Foundation’s CALL Project, and others. Her media preservation projects have received grant funding from the Society of American Archivists, the CLIR Recordings at Risk program, and the Andy Warhol Foundation. _x000d_
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Amye is a former Director of Programming and current President of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, where she organizes archival programs and symposia with the Trisha Brown Archive, the Robert Wilson Archive, the Whitney Museum, and others. Her research interests include analog media and hardware preservation, performance documentation, scaling conservation in response to climate change, critical approaches to library and archival practice, and designing digital collections for engagement and access. _x000d_